Jesse has just written the introduction to Crossing the Threshold, a fascinating new pamphlet which decribes the 266 ways in which the state can enter your home.

Publications include:

Living for the City
This book of essays proposes a new centre-right agenda for Britain's cities, based on direct democracy and local action to improve the urban environment. [Download book - 500K PDF]

Direct Democracy
What Britain needs now is a “New Localism”. This book explains why.

"This agenda ... communicates that essential, and elusive, quality of politics: integrity."
Daily Telegraph, 4 June 2005

Comment, Daily Telegraph, 10 June 2005.

'New model' Tories urge US-style reinvention, The Guardian, 6 June 2005.

Renewing the Conversation
(Social Market Foundation, 2005)

In fighting against terrorism, what are we fighting for? If Conservatives can answer this question, they will have gone a long way towards setting out a distinctive vision, and so a political direction for themselves as a party...

Towards a Lifetime of Saving
(Policy Unit, Conservative Research and Development, 2004)

There is a savings crisis in the UK, which particularly affects those on low incomes. This paper analyses the economic and cultural disincentives to saving, and proposes a simple but radical savings vehicle: the Lifetime Savings Account.

This book brings together a group of studies written in the immediate aftermath of the Polish Revolution of 1989, and the early reform period under the Mazowiecki and Bielecki governments. The topics covered include decentralisation, privatisation and regulatory reform; small business; pollution and the environment; education; and telecommunications and rural development. It concludes with a vivid account of day-to-day life by Laurence Wechsler, of The New Yorker.