Reports

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 report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at trends and policy options for addressing teenage obesity. This briefing from the UK think tank Social Market Foundation looks into the trends and policy options for addressing teenage obesity. The Government's ambitions for addressing childhood obesity aren't necessarily matched by its policies. In...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at spreading opportunity, reducing division and building community at university. In a Debate Paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Richard Brabner, Director of the UPP Foundation, says universities and the Government should adopt the famous political idea of One Nation to reshape universities in England. Writing...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the levelling up white paper and the devolution deals with county areas. The long-awaited levelling up white paper should include a framework for how the government will negotiate devolution deals with county areas, what powers it is willing to devolve and what conditions...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at the case for GMOs and gene editing. This latest paper, by Cameron English, Director of Bio-Sciences at the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), outlines how the UK can benefit from embracing gene editing and GMOs: Genetic engineering allows farmers to produce...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at driving less to tackle climate change. The UK government cannot achieve our transport emissions targets with the move to electric vehicles alone. To make sure climate targets are met, efforts must also be made to cut the number of car journeys. As well as ensuring...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how servicing post-Soviet elites weakens the rule of law. The growth of London as a centre for financial and professional services coincided with the collapse of the USSR and the rise of post-Soviet kleptocracies in the 1990s. These states and their elites have since become...

This report from UK think tank Localis looks at a move towards ethical public service commissioning. Public procurement and outsourcing have great potential when managed well, with the volume of public sector spend across the country creating many opportunitites to advance strategic economic goals. Unfortunately, for decades, successive governments have been unable to tap systematically...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at China's increasingly complex engagement in global governance. China’s trade and development finance objectives and Western concerns about these have remained relatively consistent over the last two decades. However, as China’s economy and influence have expanded, the response of the international community has become more robust...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at the case for an expansion of retirement housing in the UK. This provocation paper explores the case for an expansion of retirement housing in the UK. It demonstrates that specialist retirement housing brings with it a range of benefits to government, retirees and...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at how to dealing with distrust in politics across the West. Liberal democracy across the West is under strain. The causes of these democratic challenges are many and complex but there is a common thread: a decline in political trust. Growing distrust in politicians should be of...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at what the UK can learn from the Lion City. This latest paper, by Dr Bryan Cheang, an academic at King’s College London, outlines what the UK can learn from Singapore: Singapore has had one of the most rapidly growing economies in the world...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at risks to food and nutrition security during and after the pandemic. Since its onset, the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the resilience of food systems around the world. The impacts of this unprecedented global event on food and nutrition security had the potential to be extraordinarily...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at the creation of an artificial crisis on the Belarusian border with Poland and Lithuania. This report analyses the unprecedented creation of an artificial crisis on the Belarusian border with Poland and Lithuania, both NATO and EU members, through the weaponisation of migrants in...

This report from UK think tank from the Education Policy Institute looks at school attainment of asylum-seeking and refugee pupils in England. New research from the Education Policy Institute, supported by Unbound Philanthropy, finds that asylum-seeking children who enter the UK separated from their parents are on average over three years behind non-migrant children at...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at engaging employers in the skills system to achieve better outcomes for learners. The Government have set out plans to reform the skills system under which employers will be provided with a pivotal role in the delivery of technical education. Through engagement with stakeholders from...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at the confusion over who owns recorded lecture material or has the right to disseminate it. As universities gear up for a new round of strikes, taking place from 1 December to 3 December 2021, they may wish to reuse online teaching materials recorded during the pandemic...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the convergence of French and German approaches to Russia. Areas of common interest in French and German approaches to Russia make it possible to envisage cooperation between Paris and Berlin in the security and the economic spheres. Both France and Germany are determined to confront...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for London looks at a new vision for London as a fairer, safer, greener, and more prosperous city. This is the final report from Centre for London’s London Futures review, setting out a new vision for London as a fairer, safer, greener, and more prosperous city. Our...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies looks at the reduction of national income the UK devotes to public spending on education. The cuts to education spending over the last decade are effectively without precedent in post-war UK history, including a 9% real-terms fall in school spending per pupil and a...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at the needs and preferences of those who work in the gig economy. This report from the UK think tank Social Market Foundation looks into the experiences of those working in the gig economy. The gig economy is one of the most debated changes...

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...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at innovative dynamism after Covid-19. This latest paper, by economics professor Dr Arthur M. Diamond, Jr, makes the case that the state lacks the entrepreneurialism and innovation provided by the private sector — and both struggled to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and should...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at graduates’ perspectives on the student loan system in England. England’s higher education funding system has been reformed many times, leading to a system based on high fees and loans. Undergraduate tuition fees for full-time students were introduced in 1998 and rose to £3,000 a year in...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at incentives for engagement and implementation. In recent years, Mozambique has become the focus of increasing international investment in the exploration and exploitation of its abundant mineral resources, but ongoing instability creates challenges for the security of operating companies and their workers. State and private security...