Welfare & Equality

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  ‘Islamophobia’ Revisited

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  Hardeep Singh, September 2023 Islamophobia Revisited by Hardeep Singh builds on a previous collection of essays on Islamophobia published by Civitas in August 2019. Hardeep Singh returns to this topic, and in Islamophobia Revisited conducts a thorough investigation into how Islamophobia is defined by local authorities describing a ‘panoply’ of different approaches and definitions. In… Read Full Article
  
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  Adapting the manufacturing sector for a brighter future:

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  Jim McConalogue and Aaryaman Banerji, March 2023 In this latest Civitas publication, Dr Jim McConologue and Aaryaman Banerji look into energy resilience among SME manufacturers in the UK. The importance of SMEs within the manufacturing sector and across the UK economy should not be overlooked. There are 244,140 manufacturing businesses across the UK providing just… Read Full Article
  
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  An analysis of the effects of taxes and benefits on household income

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  Tim Knox and Daniel Lilley, January 2023 This analysis of Office for National Statistics (ONS) data for the impact of tax and benefits on household income shows that a record 54.2 per cent of individuals now live in households which receive more in benefits – including ‘benefits in kind such as health and education spending… Read Full Article
  
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  Back to basics: what is childcare policy for?

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  Ellen Pasternack and George Cook, April 2024 Childcare is a larger political priority in the UK than it ever has been before, and the target of unprecedented, and growing, levels of public spending. Despite this, there is little clarity on what the purpose of childcare policy is. Politicians and policymakers often talk as though childcare… Read Full Article
  
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  Breaking the Care Ceiling

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  Frank Young and Daniel Lilley, September 2023 This Civitas report provides new evidence on the number of care leavers who go to university in the UK alongside the first-ever league table of care leavers at UK universities. In 2022 the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care estimated the lifetime cost of poor outcomes for children… Read Full Article
  
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  China’s increasing influence in the Commonwealth of Nations:

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  Robert Clark, February 2023 The UK has a unique post-Brexit opportunity to re-engage with its Commonwealth partners, forge new and exciting trading relationships – and where it has already done so, to build and capitalise on these with new security agreements which ensure not just the UK’s security but those of its partners, in a… Read Full Article
  
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  Democratic Civilisation or Judicial Supremacy?

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  David G. Green, March 2016 How should our laws be made and where does final power lie? This question has grown increasingly salient in recent years as the judiciary has pitted itself against Parliament in a series of harmful and absurd rulings. Many of these confrontations have revolved around the Human Rights Act, but far… Read Full Article
  
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  Exploring Religious Pluralism in the Classroom

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  David Conway, May 2024 Today, tolerance between people of different faiths is often encouraged under the heading of “British values”. This is arguably misguided, as it could be taken to imply that religious tolerance is a uniquely British value, not one found in other cultures. The insinuation, therefore, is that to encourage religious tolerance in schoolchildren in… Read Full Article
  
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  Fallen through the cracks

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  Emma Webb, August 2020 A significant number of Muslim women in the United Kingdom are in unregistered religious-only marriages, many of whom will be unaware that they lack legal protections and access to marital rights. In this report, Emma Webb examines how the asymmetric nature of those sometimes polygamous marriages and Islamic divorce – which… Read Full Article
  
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  Fixing Human Rights Law

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  Dr Michael Arnheim, September 2023 Fixing Human Rights Law by Dr. Michael Arnheim, a practising barrister, Sometime Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge and author of 23 published books to date, provides an overview of what has gone wrong with contemporary human rights legislation – while suggesting ‘revocation’ by parliament is the best way forward.… Read Full Article
  
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  Free speech and decolonisation in British universities

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  Dr Richard Norrie, October 2022 Attacks on free speech seem to be worsening, with recent examples including the attempted assassination of Sir Salman Rushdie and the Batley teacher forced into hiding by Islamist extremists. In our universities that are supposed to be bastions of free inquiry, we are seeing staff under pressure to conform to… Read Full Article
  
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  How hate crime policy is undermining our law and society

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  Richard Norrie, May 2021 Politicians, activists, celebrities and senior police officers appear united in their highlighting of apparent surges in hate crimes in recent years. But this report by the Director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas, Richard Norrie, offers a critical appraisal of the ideas behind what we call ‘hate crime’… Read Full Article
  
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