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Overcrowded Islands?
£9.50Lord 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
£6.00Frank 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)
£5,000.00As 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
£10.00Joanna 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to be hateful have a long history, dating back to blasphemy laws passed in the medieval period and which were not fully rescinded until earlier this century.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
£9.00Jim 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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Rebooting Britain: How the UK economy can recover from Coronavirus
£5.00Julian Jessop and J.R. Shackleton, June 2020 The crisis does not signal a failure of capitalism nor the need for permanent increase in government intervention or public spending, says a new briefing paper from the IEA and Civitas. The risks of this crisis to the UK economy should not be downplayed; The decline will be huge… Read Full Article
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Rethinking Race:
£7.00Joanna 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:
£8.00Jim 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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Show, tell and leave nothing to the imagination
£6.00Jo-Anne Nadler, May 2023 Writer and broadcaster Jo-Anne Nadler provides a thought-provoking analysis of trends in UK schooling which she describes as a ‘Social Justice Educational Complex’ that threatens core values of impartiality and universality in our schools. Nadler argues that a ‘revolution’ delivered ‘largely by stealth’ is supported by a burgeoning industry of external providers and… Read Full Article
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Social Mobility Truths
£9.00Peter Saunders, November 2019 Politicians of all parties repeatedly tell us that Britain’s social mobility rate is very low, much worse than in other advanced western countries, and that very few children from working class backgrounds succeed in landing good jobs. They claim the professions and our top universities are largely closed to people from… Read Full Article
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Strasbourg in the Dock: Prisoner Voting, Human Rights & the Case for Democracy
£5.00Dominic Raab, April 2011 The ruling that convicted prisoners have the right to vote has put the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg at loggerheads with the UK Parliament and, hence, the will of the British people. This was reinforced in 2011 when backbenchers of all parties rejected enfranchising prisoners in a free vote.… Read Full Article
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Supporter (membership)
£500.00As a Supporter, you will receive invitations to select Civitas events; e-mail press releases and e-mail updates about Civitas Online Reports; Civitas newsletters and all Civitas books for one 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… Read Full Article
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