In the light of our growing interest in the public funding – across the EU generally, and in the UK specifically – of social engineering programmes, and our plans to challenge the   charitable status of politically-motivated militant feminist organisations including the Fawcett Society and the Women’s Resource Centre, I thought it timely to point the good visitors to this site in the direction of two strong reports written by Chris Snowden, who works for the leading London think-tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (‘IEA’).

Chris was the author of The Spirit Level Delusion, an excellent response to a bestselling leftie book, The Spirit Level. The first of the following two reports was published by the IEA in June 2012, the second was published two days ago:

SOCK PUPPETS: How the government lobbies itself and why

http://www.iea.org.uk/publications/research/sock-puppets-how-the-government-lobbies-itself-and-why

EURO PUPPETS: The European Commission’s remaking of civil society 

http://www.iea.org.uk/publications/research/euro-puppets-the-european-commission%E2%80%99s-remaking-of-civil-society