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  Is Coronavirus unprecedented?

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  David Martin Jones and Emma Webb, July 2020 The coronavirus that had been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020 has frequently been viewed in society as unique, exceptional and unprecedented. In this report, David Martin Jones and Emma Webb suggest there is nothing particularly novel about disease in the… 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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  It’s Quite OK to Walk Away:

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  Michael Burrage, March 2017 The image of the EU’s Single Market as an economically successful project, membership of which is vital to the interests of the UK, has rested on the hopes and repeated assurances of politicians rather than any credible evidence. No UK government has ever sought to monitor its impact until the rushed… Read Full Article
  
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  Left Behind

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  John Mills, October 2019 Something has gone badly awry with social democracy in recent years. Not so long ago, government by centre-left parties seemed almost to be the natural order of affairs in stable and prosperous economies. Today the position is very different, as voters have turned their back on them across much of the… Read Full Article
  
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  Living with the Dragon

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  The Rt Hon Sir Malcom Rifkind KCMG KC, Lord Alton, Charles Parton, Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Gray Sergeant, Darren Spinck, Andrew Cainey, Kevin Rowlands, Andrew Chubb, Sam Dunning, Harry Halem (Edited by Robert Seely and Robert Clark), October 2024 China is becoming the most serious challenge to UK and the West, due to its… Read Full Article
  
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  Marriage and the stable society

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  Daniel Lilley, December 2024 Marriage has undergone a remarkable decline in the UK. The marriage rate has fallen two thirds in 50 years; and in 2021, for the first time, more than half of babies were born to unmarried parents. We also see a growing ‘marriage gap’, in which those who are wealthier and more… 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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  Parents have their say on cannabis

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  Frank Young and Shaun Bailey, July 2022 6 million new cannabis users if cannabis is legalised says new Civitas polling New polling shows a million young adults (age 18-24) would try cannabis for the first time if the UK legalised cannabis. More than 1.5 million parents of primary school children would take up cannabis if… Read Full Article
  
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  Patron (membership)

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  As Patron, you are invited to private lunches and dinners with the Director & Trustees to discuss our activities; you are able to support specific programmes; you will receive invitations to all public Civitas events; receive e-mail press releases and e-mail updates including Civitas Online Reports, Civitas newsletters and all Civitas books for one year.… 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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