Reports

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at why communities matter and what matters to them. Despite the many challenges it has brought, the COVID-19 pandemic has renewed interest in local community life in the UK. At a time when many are asking how we can build upon this community...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at the support for a United Kingdom-Australia free trade deal. Original ASI & C|T Group polling shows that the citizens of the United Kingdom and Australia greatly support the signing of a free trade deal between the UK and Australia. 65% of Brits support...

This report from UK think tank Centre for Policy Studies looks at how children can catch up after Covid. New polling by Public First for the Centre for Policy Studies think tank shows that over two thirds (67%) of parents think children in England have been negatively affected by lockdown. A follow-up poll found that...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House provides a network analysis of Haftar’s military alliance. In recent years, the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), under the command of Khalifa Haftar, has dominated authorities in eastern Libya, expanded into southern Libya and sought to capture the capital, Tripoli. Unlike other armed groups, the LAAF has...

This article by UK think tank the Foreign Policy Centre looks at the potential for, and importance of, long awaited defamation reform in Northern Ireland. Dr Mark Hanna, Lecturer at the QUB School of Law, discusses the potential for, and importance of, long awaited defamation reform in Northern Ireland. On 14 May 2021, the UK...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government provides details on 10 essential reforms to government. In his seven hours of testimony to a Commons committee, the prime minister’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, laid out a portrait of a chaotic government failing in its basic functions. Some of that is due to...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at why the UK should seize the opportunity to support a global minimum corporation tax. Since taking office, US President Joe Biden has put forward a bold plan for international cooperation to stop tax avoidance by multinational companies. This briefing paper argues that the UK should support...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at managing divergence from EU rules. This report warns that an incoherent government approach to the UK’s post-Brexit regulatory freedoms risks creating new costs for businesses, harming its international trade ambitions and destabilising the union. There are good reasons why the government might want...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at a plan for culture change and regulatory reform. The audit industry is often seen as a not very exciting area. Auditors, sometimes referred to as ‘bean counters’, are seen as simply double-checking numbers with little room for judgement. As we showed in our last report, this...

This report from UK think tank looks at optimising special forces for future conflict. This Whitehall Report analyses the ways in which special forces have been used historically and how adversaries are increasingly likely to use them. It assesses how the future operating environment is likely to change the way in which special forces pursue...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at replacing EU state aid rules in the UK. As the government prepares to unveil legislation for a UK state aid (or subsidy control) regime – which will regulate around £8bn of subsidies from governments and public bodies to businesses each year – this...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at the ideas behind what we call ‘hate crime’ as well as the evidence for it.  Politicians, activists, celebrities and senior police officers appear united in their highlighting of apparent surges in hate crimes in recent years. But this report by the Director of the Statistics and...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at the rise of working poverty and fixing Britain's broken social settlement. In this paper we trace the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of this century. Our welfare...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at why stronger human rights monitoring is needed and how to make it work. Political shifts, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the struggle for a shared vision of how to ‘build back better’, have reignited the debate about trade and human rights. Although many...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the prospects for change in the post-Merkel era. This briefing paper tracks the evolution of Germany’s policy towards China in recent decades, founded on what was long viewed as a one-way economic bet for German business, and examines the drivers of a gradual shift in...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for London looks at London's town centres and high streets. Town centres are at the heart of London’s communities, with more than a third of Londoners living within 200 metres of a high street. Yet many of our high streets have been on life support for years,...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at the regulation needed to help switch consumers to zero emission vehicles.  The government’s ambition to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030 must be translated into near term action. As the transition to clean vehicles depends on an adequate supply of zero emission vehicles,...

This report from UK think tank the Constitution Unit is the final report of the Working Group on Irish reunification. This report examines how any future referendums on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland would best be designed and conducted.

This report from UK think tank CLES looks at how the UK has failed to address longstanding geographical disparities in economic and social conditions. Local economic development should serve to ensure that economic gains are delivering social benefits at scale and are working within environmentally sustainable limits. Yet, at the latest count,14 million people are...

This report from UK think tank the IIED discusses unfinished business and pandemic disruption. There are clear challenges and opportunities for getting climate negotiations on track in 2021. After a lacklustre COP25, the vaunted 2020 ‘super year’ designed to reset the UNFCCC process succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite rolling postponements, the UNFCCC process...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at healthcare rationing in the NHS before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Robert Sutton, a junior doctor in Wales and recent graduate of the University of Oxford Medical School, explains how the NHS is failing to meet its central goal: The National Health...

This report from UK think tank the IIED looks at perspectives from the Least Developed Countries. Billed as a ‘super year’ for climate diplomacy, international efforts to address the climate crisis in 2020 were among the myriad processes affected by COVID-19. Amid worldwide travel restrictions and lockdown measures, climate diplomacy moved to virtual mode. This...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at how to tackle workforce challenges in adult social care. The Work Foundation and Totaljobs have developed a new guide to tackle workforce challenges in adult social care through research with care workers and engagement with providers and expert stakeholders.With an estimated workforce of 1.52...

This report from UK think tank the IIED looks at the LDC gaps and needs in greenhouse gas inventory reporting. From 2024, all countries will face more stringent reporting requirements on their climate action under the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework (ETF). For developing countries — and the least developed countries (LDCs) in particular —...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies looks at how civic space has changed during the pandemic. Since long before the Covid-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, civic space has been changing all over the globe, generally becoming more restricted and hazardous. The pandemic brought the suspension of many fundamental freedoms in...