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  The Problem with Human Rights Law

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  Michael 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

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  Ruth 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

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  Dr 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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  The Return of Political Patronage

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  Alasdair Palmer, November 2015 The special adviser – or ‘spad’ – has become firmly established in Westminster folklore over the past two decades, coming to symbolise much that is questionable about modern politics. The likes of Jo Moore, who urged colleagues to use 9/11 to bury bad news, and Damian McBride, who schemed on behalf… Read Full Article
  
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  The Road to Recovery: Reviving Manufacturing after Coronavirus

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  John Mills, July 2020 The global economy may well take much longer to recover fully from the shock caused by the coronavirus crisis than many initially expected – and hoped. With business closures and lockdowns forecast to throw the world into the deepest recession since the 1930s Great Depression, John Mills, the UK entrepreneur and… Read Full Article
  
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  The value of a knowledge-rich curriculum

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  Ruth Ashbee, Jeremy Baker, Tom Bennett, Christine Counsell, Tara Dodson, Kasia Glinka, Harry Hudson, Jim Knight, Emma Lennard, Jason Molloy, Ben Newmark, Naomi Pilling, Rebecca Ryman, Clare Sealy, David Steiner, Joshua Vallance, Dylan Wiliam, December 2025 The value of a knowledge-rich curriculum: An essay collection is a multi-author anthology bringing together a wide range of professionals… Read Full Article
  
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  Total Recall: How direct democracy can improve Britain

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  Nick Cowen, December 2008 Members of Parliament have traditionally enjoyed total legislative supremacy in the United Kingdom, able to pass or rescind any law of the land. Most citizens of Britain probably think that this is still the case. However, in this worrying examination of the dilution of the sovereignty of parliament by its own… Read Full Article
  
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  Transgender Children: A discussion

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  Toby Young, Stephanie Davies-Arai, November 2019 Children registering as ‘transgender’ – that the gender they feel themselves to be is at odds with their biological sex – is a growing phenomenon. Applications by children wanting to change their gender by deed poll have leapt in recent years, as have referrals to the Tavistock, the only… Read Full Article
  
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  Understanding the UK’s Transition to Warfighting Readiness

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  Sir Bernard Jenkin MP, Derek Twigg MP and Chris Donnelly CMG, January 2026 The rules-based global order which the United Kingdom and other democracies drove to establish after 1945, and which we believed had been permanently assured after 1990, is fast disappearing. The West now faces a truly existential threat from a loose but strengthening… Read Full Article
  
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  Universal childcare

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  Maria Lyons, February 2024 All of the UK’s major political parties have recently declared their intentions to significantly expand state subsidies for childcare outside the home, including for babies from the age of nine months. It’s frequently said that universal “early childhood education” is a way to “give every child the best start in life”.… Read Full Article
  
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  We Need to Check Your Thinking

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  Dr Richard Norrie and Hardeep Singh, September 2022 Richard Norrie and Hardeep Singh examine the role of identity politics and how it is warping police priorities from within. The authors take a critical look at the police’s fundamental commitment to impartiality and their role in contentious matters of a political nature. This book looks at… Read Full Article
  
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  We’re Nearly All Victims Now!

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  David G. Green, September 2019 Identity politics has been creeping into public discourse for many years. When the first edition of this book was published in 2006, it was already obvious that the politics of victimhood had taken hold. This second, updated edition takes stock of how it has developed since then, particularly in the … Read Full Article
  
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