Institute of Economic Affairs
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Oct 6, 2026
James KamarasamyHOST
It's a libertarian magazine.
James KamarasamyHOST
She was formerly of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free market think tank.
James KamarasamyHOST
Uh, welcome to the program, both of you.
James KamarasamyHOST
Ryan, can I start with you? What do you think about Kemi Badenoch saying that inheritance tax is immoral? Do you agree with that point of view?
Connie ShawHOST
I'm Connie Shaw, and today I'm joined by Maeve Halligan, who many of you will have come across as a result of her blazing speech at the Cambridge Union, uh, talking about trans activism.
Connie ShawHOST
She is also a recent graduate of the University of Cambridge, and she's the founding president of the Cambridge University Society of Women, and she's now the spokesman at the Institute of Economic Affairs, and she is also one of my very good friends, so I'm very proud and happy to have her on the Free Speech Union Podcast.
Connie ShawHOST
So Maeve, I first met you at the Living Freedom Festival in 2024, which is a free speech festival for young people organized by the Academy of Ideas, and you were one of the first young other gender critical women that I'd ever met.
Connie ShawHOST
And I went to that festival as a result of beginning to speak to people who were gender critical, and I was advised that I should go.
Charlie RowleyHOST
I'm delighted to be joined by Maeve Halligan.
Charlie RowleyHOST
She's the spokesman for the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Charlie RowleyHOST
Good afternoon.
Maeve HalliganGUEST
Hello.
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Charlie RowleyHOST
I know you've got to go.
Charlie RowleyHOST
Thank you so much for joining me this afternoon.
Charlie RowleyHOST
Maeve Halligan there, the spokesman for the Institute of Economic Affairs.
BrianHOST
Today my guest is Reem Ibrahim, a libertarian writer and commentator and one of the youngest, sharpest free market voices out there.
BrianHOST
She went from being a Corbyn supporting teenager to three years later at the Institute of Economic Affairs and she just moved to Washington to write for Reason.
BrianHOST
In this episode we get into what libertarianism actually is, the NHS, the housing crisis, landlords and what the UK could learn from America's attitude to money.
BrianHOST
Agree with her or not, she'll make you think.
Neil SandersGUEST
And I think you've noticed that Trump is going to start taking lots of people off food stamps soon as well.
Neil SandersGUEST
Now, basically, the Heritage Foundation runs, as I said, the Adam Smith Institute, the IEA or the Institute of Economic Affairs and Turning Point UK and the Institute of Free Trade.
Neil SandersGUEST
And again, these are all think tanks set up in the UK.
Neil SandersGUEST
It's basically just extensions of the Heritage Foundation.
Jonn ElledgeGUEST
Uh, and, and I did some calculations for the amount that you would need to kind of run a public transport system for a city like London and New York, and that does get into tons a week very, very quickly.
Jonn ElledgeGUEST
Um, so you can see why even if there was no specific historical event called the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894, which seems to have been, uh, w- w- the earliest references to that I can actually find date to a, a, a, a blog in about 2004 by the Institute of Economic Affairs, who kind of wanted a convenient, um, allegory for why you-
Oliver Webb-CarterHOST
Is that the right-wing one?
Jonn ElledgeGUEST
Yeah.
Jonn ElledgeGUEST
And that does get into tons a week very, very quickly.
Jonn ElledgeGUEST
So you can see why, even if there was no specific historical event called the Great Horse manure crisis of 1894, which seems to have been The earliest references to that I can actually find date to a blog in about 2004 by the Institute of Economic Affairs, who kind of wanted a convenient allegory.
Jonn ElledgeGUEST
Is that the right
Oliver Webb CarterHOST
wing one?
Steve BakerHOST
back to dan so joining me we've got jasper ossel from the adam smith institute the head of education and sorry research and education we've got will yarwood campaign director of the taxpayers alliance fred de fossard the strategy director from the prosperity institute our very own albion mancona voice for freedom and we've got for the first time maeve halligan joining us from the institute of economic affairs Right, Jasper, one minute.
Steve BakerHOST
What are the prospects of liberty under the present government? You're very generous with one minute.
Steve BakerHOST
It doesn't take very long to say not much.
James O'BrienHOST
The so-called TaxPayers Alliance, which is of course nothing of the kind, will be leading the line on stuff like this.
James O'BrienHOST
So will the so-called Institute of Economic Affairs, secretly funded think tanks that essentially exist, or so-called think tanks that essentially exist to promote the interests of their anonymous, very wealthy donors.
James O'BrienHOST
It's not an opinion, that's counting, and they have succeeded in, um, having media treat them like sort of, uh, unbiased academic insight providers when they're nothing of the sort.
James O'BrienHOST
They are secretly funded lobby groups, effectively, in representing the interests of their very wealthy secret funders.
James O'BrienHOST
The so-called Taxpayers' Alliance, which is, of course, nothing of the kind, will be leading the line on stuff like this.
James O'BrienHOST
So will the so-called Institute of Economic Affairs, secretly funded think tanks that essentially exist or so-called think tanks that essentially exist to promote the interests of their anonymous, very wealthy donors.
James O'BrienHOST
It's not an opinion.
James O'BrienHOST
That's counting.
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