Preventing violent extremism: Integration amid a funding crisis
This report from UK think tank RUSI stresses the need to integrate preventing and countering VE across development and security coverage. By contextualising violent extremism (VE) within broader conflict systems, this paper stresses the need to integrate preventing and countering VE across development and security coverage. Despite several conceptual and operational barriers, this approach would...
From investment to outcomes: Capabilities to deliver purposeful public investment in research
This report from UK think tank HEPI considers how to maximise the potential of public spending on research. A new paper by research impact specialists at UCL, From investment to outcomes: Capabilities to deliver purposeful public investment in research (HEPI Policy Note 69), considers how to maximise the potential of public spending on research. The...
Fiscal events and how to avoid them
This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation assesses the economic and fiscal outlook based on news since the Autumn Budget. In this slide pack we preview the upcoming Spring Forecast, assessing the economic and fiscal outlook based on news since the Autumn Budget. Stepping back, growth remains weak, households cautious, and the labour...
Transport and growth: Reforming transport investment for place-based growth
This report from UK think tank IPPR argues for a shift to a system that asks how we can build more of what already works. The ability to deliver transformative public transport is not constrained by a lack of ideas, public support or local ambition. It is constrained by the way decisions are taken at...
Just stop oil?
This report from UK think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs examines the economic and environmental consequences of ending domestic oil and gas production. No credible forecast shows UK oil and gas demand falling to zero by 2050, even under net zero scenarios – oil and gas are essential ingredients in plastics, fertilisers, medicines and...
Around the world
This report from UK think tank Centre for Cities looks at how cities around the world operate their visitor levies and what England can learn from their experiences. Using examples drawn from a range of countries and cities from major visitor destinations such as Barcelona and Amsterdam to smaller places such as Essen, Germany and...
How middle powers can weather US and Chinese AI dominance
This report from UK think tank Chatham House makes the case for 'sovereign AI' strategies. The dominance of the US and China in AI development poses a significant conundrum for the rest of the world. For middle powers, the establishment of ‘sovereign AI’ strategies, which allow a country to influence, develop and deploy AI technology...
‘We believe this is the way to do it’: Exploring the City St George’s merger
This report from UK think tank HEPI offers rare real-world guidance from an unusually large and high-stakes merger. City St George’s: HEPI report sets out practical insights and recommendations from a landmark university merger. A new HEPI report, ‘We believe this is the way to do it’: Exploring the City St George’s Merger (HEPI Report...
Settling up: A new deal to unlock immigration reform and build trust
This report from UK think tank Demos sets out a practical route to detoxify one of the most polarised policy issues of our time – immigration. This paper presents opportunities to upgrade democracy – to address the ‘democratic doom loop’ of mistrust, disengagement and political ineffectiveness – through setting out a practical route to detoxify...
Declining urgency, enduring support
This report from UK think tank the Policy Institute examines public attitudes to net zero and climate policy. The share of the UK public who say the country needs to reduce carbon emissions to net zero sooner than 2050 has nearly halved since 2021, according to a major new study. 29% of the public now...
