Welfare & Equality

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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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  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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  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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  How we think about disparity

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  Richard Norrie, December 2020 A government-appointed Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities has been set up to address disparity between ethnic or racial groups in outcomes relating to health, education, employment and other areas. This follows numerous reviews conducted by various governments since 2010. Drawing on the full array of existing reviews, this report by… Read Full Article
  
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  In defence of British openness

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  Richard Norrie, February 2022 Richard Norrie, director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas takes a forensic look at multiracial Britain. In this major new study of multi-ethnic Britain, Richard Norrie makes the case that ethnic minority individuals fare better here than in the familial countries of origin, with a confident minority middle-class.… Read Full Article
  
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  Is Identity Politics Undermining Police Impartiality?

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  David G. Green, December 2021 When we encounter the police, can we rely on them to apply the law impartially? To act without fear or favour has been seen as the essence of policing since the first modern police force was founded in 1829. In this study, David Green looks closely at the growing importance of police pressure… Read Full Article
  
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  Islamophobia

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  Emma Webb (ed.), August 2019 In November 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims published a report proposing a working definition of Islamophobia which described it as ‘a type of racism’. Despite having received barely any public scrutiny or debate, the definition has already been adopted by local councils and political parties. This volume… Read Full Article
  
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  Overcrowded Islands?

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  Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE, July 2020 The UK population has grown fast in recent years – an increase of 6.6 million since 2001 with a further increase of 5.6 million expected by 2041. Even for a geographically small island, the UK is relatively crowded by comparison with France and Germany. Indeed, an overwhelming… Read Full Article
  
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  Policing Hate

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  Joanna Williams, December 2020 Attempts to criminalise speech that some consider to be hateful have a long history, dating back to blasphemy laws passed in the medieval period and which were not fully rescinded until earlier this century. The Race Relations Act (1965) prohibited ‘incitement to racial hatred’ and since this time, a myriad of… Read Full Article
  
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  Rebalancing the British Constitution

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  Jim McConalogue, March 2020 The Human Rights Act 1998 is claimed by its advocates to contain fundamental rights that everyone in the UK is entitled to, by incorporating the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic British law. But as Jim McConalogue writes, its 22-year history now testifies to a… Read Full Article
  
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  Rethinking Race:

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  Joanna Williams, April 2021 By almost all statistical measures, Joanna Williams argues, society is less racist today than at any other point in the past century – a point which is rarely celebrated. Still less is this considered a reason to leave people to negotiate inter-cultural and inter-racial relationships for themselves. Despite there being less… Read Full Article
  
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  Rotting from the Head:

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  Jim McConalogue, Rachel Neal and Jack Harris, June 2021 There is a growing concern that the great institutions of British national life are falling prey to ‘institutional capture’. Whether it is Archbishops, Bishops, Chief Constables, Vice-Chancellors, or the leadership of our national arts, museums, heritage, cultural and broadcasting organisations, there is a significant crisis in… Read Full Article
  
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