This report from UK think tank Civitas provides a comparison of global health systems and how the UK fares. A major new comparison of global health systems places the UK second to bottom across a series of major health care outcomes, including life expectancy and survival rates from cancer, strokes and heart attacks. This comparative...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at evidence and ideas on how we might think about a multiracial country. In this major new study of multi-ethnic Britain, Richard Norrie, makes the case that ethnic minority individuals fare better here than in the familial countries of origin, with a confident minority middle-class. Comparing the...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at three strategic export industries and how freeports can help. In the third of a three-part series on UK trade, Phil Radford looks at why manufacturing in strategic industries has either moved offshore or stayed offshore. Prospects for a Global Britain: Three Strategic Export Industries for the...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at why Brexit's benefits to the UK have been widely underestimated. In this report published by Civitas, Professor Minford (Professor of Applied Economics, Cardiff University) analyses the ways in which official trade modelling and policy assumptions have underestimated the gains from free trade with non-EU countries. The...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at whether the impartiality of the police service is threatened by a doctrine of identity politics. 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...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks if we are moving parliamentary democracy to the regulatory state. At the forefront of Britain’s response to Covid-19 is the emergence of a new phase in the growth of the regulatory state. Many of the features of our pandemic response reflected the ongoing transformation of the state....

This report from UK think tank Civitas examines the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard and calls for it to be "wound up". The NHS seeks to monitor and control diversity and equality through a programme known as the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) – it is based on a series of statistical indicators pertaining to...

This paper from UK think tank Civitas looks at China's expanding military training programmes for developing Commonwealth countries.  With Barbados to become a republic and remove the Queen as head of state – a decision which, according to some sources, appears to have been influenced by China – interest in the extent and impacts of...