Reports

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 Chatham House looks at options and priorities for rebuilding a collapsed system in Venezuela. In Venezuela, as around the world, the provision of reliable and affordable electric power is essential for the availability of vital humanitarian services such as healthcare and water supply, as well as enabling public transport,...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at how extremists utilise platforms’ algorithms to radicalise vulnerable people. This report looks at how extremists utilise platforms’ algorithms to radicalise vulnerable people. It finds that algorithms in use on social media platforms aid extremists and lead more people to self-radicalisation, it is the...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at the barriers facing those on UC in accessing training.  Because of support like the furlough scheme, the UK's employment rate has remained lower than was projected. But many people are still on UC, including nearly 2.8 million people who face requirements that make it...

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 the Social Market Foundation looks at improving criminal justice outcomes for ethnic minorities. This report from the UK think tank Social Market Foundation looks into the experiences of ethnic minority individuals in the criminal justice system. In this briefing, Dr Aveek Bhattacharya gets to the heart of a really...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at hyperglobalization and the heterogeneity of protest movements. Populist challengers to the political establishment have emerged across Europe in recent years, with both right-wing and left-wing movements and parties gaining traction. Many theories have been put forward to explain the phenomenon, given the significant impact of...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust looks at a comparison of healthcare integration policy and progress across the four countries of the UK. Across the four counties of the UK, integration of health and social care has been a policy priority driven by the needs of a population that is living longer...

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...