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Britain’s Export Boom
£5.00Marcus Gibson, May 2020 It has been widely claimed by many leading voices of the UK’s institutions, corporations and organisations that the UK would face a national disaster if it left the European Union. But as Marcus Gibson argues, a whole generation of organisations and individuals have been proved wrong – given that the post-Brexit… Read Full Article
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China’s increasing influence in the Commonwealth of Nations:
£9.00Robert 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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China’s presence in NHS supply chains
£5.00Robert Clark and Richard Norrie, May 2022 This new Civitas report takes a closer look at Chinese-manufactured goods in NHS supply chains and discovers the NHS is “dangerously reliant” on China for medical supplies. This analysis by Robert Clark and Dr Richard Norrie finds 1 in 6 (17 per cent) products contained on the Government’s… Read Full Article
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Closing the Finance Gap:
£8.00Justin Protts, February 2018 The UK economy is suffering from low productivity. This has been weighing heavily on GDP growth since the 2008 financial crisis, with output per worker stagnating at one of the lowest levels of any advanced economy. Raising productivity requires investment in productive enterprise. But UK investment, as a proportion of domestic… Read Full Article
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Competitiveness Before Carbon:
£8.00Glyn Gaskarth, February 2017 A series of policy initiatives since 2000 have rendered energy supply in the UK unstable and expensive. This has been driven by a desire to reduce carbon emissions in response to concerns about global warming. The effect, however, has been to drive energy intensive industries overseas, to countries with less carbon… Read Full Article
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Controlling Britain’s Borders: The challenge of enforcing the UK’s immigration rules
£5.00David Wood, January 2019 The UK receives tens of thousands of asylum applications ever year. Usually less than half are found to be valid, even at the end of lengthy appeal processes, and yet only a minority of those subsequently leave the country. As a result there is a mounting backlog of illegal immigrants waiting… Read Full Article
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Covid Kids
£5.00Joanna Williams, July 2020 In response to coronavirus, schools closed to all but the children of key workers on 20 March 2020. The majority of children did not return before the end of the academic year, meaning they will have spent over five months out of the classroom. Schools remained closed to most pupils for… Read Full Article
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Democratic Civilisation or Judicial Supremacy?
£7.00David 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
£7.00Emma 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
£9.00Dr 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
£5.00Dr 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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Friends of Civitas (membership)
£50.00As a Friend of Civitas you will receive all of our publications throughout the year. New members will receive a free copy of Roger Bootle’s book, The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age and Daniel Bentley’s recent book The Land Question on fixing the dysfunction at the root of the housing crisis. You… Read Full Article
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