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Exploring Religious Pluralism in the Classroom
£5.00David 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
£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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Governing the beautiful game
£9.00Aaryaman Banerji, February 2023 This Civitas publication looks at the prospect of regulation within English men’s football, something that has a large impact on football fans and the local community. Aaryaman Banerji is a sports researcher at Civitas looking at how we regulate ‘the beautiful game’. Against the backdrop of football’s growing institutional graveyard, with… Read Full Article
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How hate crime policy is undermining our law and society
£8.00Richard 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 UK energy subsidies drove down consumption, pushed up prices and reduced our prosperity
£5.00Dr John Constable, March 2023 This briefing from energy expert Dr John Constable, seeks to put the question of falling UK energy consumption into the spotlight, and offers reasons for thinking that it is, or rather should be, a matter of profound concern rather than complacency or even self-congratulation. Constable looks at UK energy consumption… Read Full Article
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How we think about disparity
£6.00Richard 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
£9.00Richard 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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Inclusive Capitalism: How we can make independence work for everyone
£6.00David G. Green, February 2017 The UK is taking back its independence at a time when some of the unspoken assumptions of recent times are shifting. To speak of the political left or the political right no longer has a clear meaning. Some say that the real divide is between globalisation and nationalism, but this… Read Full Article
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International Health Care Outcomes Index 2022 (Updated)
£7.00Tim Knox, July 2022 This updated comparison of global health systems places the UK second to bottom across a series of major health care outcomes, including life expectancy and survival rates from cancer, strokes and heart attacks. New data is included for health spending for 2020 and life expectancy and mortality rates. This comparative study… Read Full Article
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