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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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Restoring the Value of Parishes
£8.00Esmé Partridge, November 2024 The parish church has been a foundational part of cultural life in England for hundreds of years. England’s 12,500 parish churches are ‘treasure houses’ of national history, containing the memories of our ancestors as well as the rich architectural and musical heritage of Anglicanism. Parishes also bring together local communities, providing… 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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Sovereign Wealth Funds
£10.00David G. Green, Eugene O’Callaghan, John Penrose MP, The Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Adam Dixon, John Crompton, Dag Detter, Richard Hyde, Hari Menon, Rachel Neal (Edited by Jim McConalogue), March 2024 Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are often discussed as government-owned investment funds with their benefits returning to the government and citizens – and which… 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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Teachers or Parents
£7.00Joanna Williams, September 2024 Earlier this year, Labour leader Keir Starmer announced plans for primary teachers to supervise pupils brushing their teeth during the school day, to address rising rates of dental problems in young children. Meanwhile, teachers complain that increasing proportions of pupils begin primary school still wearing nappies – so that helping children… Read Full Article
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The Brussels Broadcasting Corporation?
£4.00David Keighley and Andrew Jubb, January 2018 For at least the past two decades, opinion polls have shown a large number of voters have wanted the UK to leave the European Union. When the question was finally put in the June 2016 referendum, the electorate voted to do just that by a margin of 52… Read Full Article
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The Commission on the Future for Independent Schools
£12.00January 2025 The English independent schools sector, one of the most historic and well-reputed in the world, is at a fork in the road. After decades of fluctuating political pressure and public support, it has become clear that the future for the sector will not be able to look the same as its past. A… Read Full Article
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