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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 Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology
£8.00Joanna Williams, June 2020 In less than two decades ‘transgender’ has gone from a term representing individuals and little used outside of specialist communities, to signifying a powerful political ideology driving significant social change. At the level of the individual, this shift has occurred through the separation of gender from sex, before reclaiming biology through… Read Full Article
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The Demise of the Free State
£5.00David G. Green, April 2014 “The great merit of this brilliant and learned book is that it locates the case for withdrawal in the magnificent British tradition of democracy, liberty and tolerance” – Peter Oborne As the UK fast approaches a crossroads in its relationship with the European Union, Civitas director David G Green contrasts the… Read Full Article
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The Elephant in the Room
£10.00John Mills, October 2020 Covid-19 has forced the UK into an economic crisis, generating the deep recession with which we are now faced. To bounce back, this book argues, we need a fundamental rethink about the economic policies that have caused us to deindustrialise and to allow the massive imbalances – from which the UK… Read Full Article
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The failing quango state
£9.00Richard Norrie, April 2023 Dr Richard Norrie (Director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas) reviews the role of ‘Arms Length Bodies’ in this latest Civitas publication. £223.9 billion was spent by so-called arm’s length bodies (ALBs) in 2020, which employed 318,714 people. As a percentage of total government expenditure, that is 21… Read Full Article
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The Great Disconnect: Why too many small business owners feel let down
£5.00Tim Knox, March 2020 For the past two decades, politicians from across the political spectrum have been vocal in their praise of small business – often to great acclaim when producing initiatives in government. But, do we know what business owners themselves think of government? As Tim Knox explains in this study on how micro-businesses… Read Full Article
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The Land Question:
£5.00Daniel Bentley, February 2018 Why aren’t we building more homes? This has been the perennial question in housing policy, as initiative after initiative seems to have made too little headway. But, as Daniel Bentley explains in this new guide to the housing crisis, the challenge is not just to increase the number of new homes,… Read Full Article
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The Left Case for Brexit
£8.00Philip B. Whyman, September 2018 Two years on from the vote for Brexit, the process of withdrawal remains mired in debate about the kind of relationship an independent UK should be seeking with the European Union and the wider world. With the date for departure moving ever closer, there is a desperate need for a… Read Full Article
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The Politics of Fantasy
£6.00Alasdair Palmer and David Wood, June 2017 Concerns about immigration were not the only reason why a small but significant majority of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union in the referendum of 23 June 2016. But concerns about immigration were certainly a major factor. Polls which asked people why they voted for Brexit soon after… Read Full Article
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The Problem with Human Rights Law
£9.00Michael Arnheim, March 2015 Human rights law has been hijacked in the UK by special interest groups seeking to advance their own rights above those of the rest of the population. The European convention has been repeatedly used in a way that weakens the government’s ability to defend the country from terrorism or to deal… Read Full Article
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The Racialisation of Campus Relations
£5.00Ruth Mieschbuehler, November 2020 The author of this report, Ruth Mieschbuehler, argues that there is a real danger that campus relations at universities will become racialised. The term ‘racialisation’ – referring to the process of emphasising racial and ethnic grouping – is discussed to show how higher education policies and practices implemented to address the… Read Full Article
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The Radical Progressive University Guide
£5.00Dr Richard Norrie, January 2023 The Radical Progressive University Guide sets out to quantify the extent of ‘radical progressive’ policies at British Universities, including their curbs on free speech. Dr Richard Norrie (director of the statistics and policy research programme) uses evidence from media reports and university websites to compile a new ‘radical progressive’ league… Read Full Article
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