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🖊️NEW CIVITAS REPORT🖊️
Back to basics: what is childcare policy for?👶🧩
This report, foreworded by
@miriam_cates
, argues that in order to improve childcare policy in the UK, we first need to go back to basics and agree on what it is that it’s actually trying to achieve.
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Download and read the report, ‘A Long March through the Institutions: Understanding and responding to China’s influence in international organisations’ by Radomir Tylecote and Robert Clark here
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If the UK does vote for
#Brexit
negotiating trade deals afterwards will be far easier than the scare stories suggest
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Today's
@Telegraph
reports that
@miriam_cates
will present a bill later today to give legal rights to parents to see all RSHE materials.
last month
@JoAnneNadler
published a poll showing 77% of parents agree courtesy of
@DeltapollUK
...
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Download and read the much-discussed report, ‘Inadvertently Arming China? The Chinese military complex and its potential exploitation of scientific research at UK universities’ by Radomir Tylecote and Robert Clark here
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'No evidence to show the membership of the Single Market has benefited UK trade'
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New:
@JoAnneNadler
publishes 'show, tell and leave nothing to the imagination'
Parents want big new powers over schools and RSHE
Calls for a union of parents to put parents first
Read it here:
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David Cameron and Sadiq Khan are united by their desire to overrule British democracy says
@dgreen_uk
#EU
#Brexit
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The
@Telegraph
calls for 'sanity' on climate change in response to work recently published by
@Civitas_UK
and written by
@JoAnneNadler
Climate alarmism should not be taught in schools
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Great to see our new research on cannabis covered by
@charleshymas
in today’s
@Telegraph
A massive 8 in 10 black and minority ethnic Brits told us they back police using stop and search to get drugs off the streets
@ShaunBaileyUK
Black and ethnic minority parents are more likely than their white counterparts to back stop and search to crackdown on cannabis, new research has found.
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Download and read the report, ‘The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology’ by Joanna Williams here
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Two-thirds of European Commission trade agreements resulted in a decline in UK trade growth:
#EU
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Download and read the report, ‘Rethinking Race: A critique of contemporary anti-racism programmes’ by Joanna Williams here
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1/“I welcome the
@CommonsPAC
recognition that Government risks undermining public trust and accountability for the pandemic response because of repeated failures to provide a full rationale for key decisions. It formed part of my written evidence to them.” [Jim McConalogue]
'Government’s repeated failure to provide a full rationale for key decisions is undermining public trust and accountability for the pandemic response. Of 1,644 contracts with a value over £25k awarded to end July 2020, 75% were not published within the 90-day target' - PAC report
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NEW: A collection of essays looking at the likely impact for civil liberties of a formal definition of Islamophobia.
Contributions from a wide range of voices, and edited by
@FIDE_Civitas
director
@Emma_A_Webb
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'Quitting the EU could boost trade deals' - our new report in the Mail today:
http://t.co/UhgO8LZbNE
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Director of
@FIDE_Civitas
Emma Webb on
@bbcsml
this morning discussing the migrant crisis and illegal crossings
Illegal crossings line the pockets of human traffickers & we have a duty to prevent that. Approx £24m since the start of lockdown, probably much more because trafficking doesn’t begin at the shore. Pleasure to be on with
@DouglasKMurray
@LauraJanklaus
and
@ahmadalrashid99
👇🏻
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#Brexit
will permit the UK to renew its commitment to outward looking internationalism says
@dgreen_uk
:
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Read
@RichardDawkins
preface in our collection of concerns over the
#Islamophobia
definition published today.
The definition risks being used to protect religious practices from criticism & exacerbating difference between groups:
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Civitas was delighted to welcome Hong Kong protest leader
@tommycheungsy
and
@hk_watch
today - Hong Kong is standing up in record numbers for freedom and should have Britain’s support. 🇭🇰🇬🇧
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What price lockdown? Download and read the report, ‘The cost of the cure’ by
@TimkCPS
and Jim McConalogue here
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Open letter published in
@thetimes
yesterday opposing a change in the use of the term “Islamist” by the police, signed by
@FIDE_Civitas
director
@Emma_A_Webb
, author of the Muslim Brotherhood review Sir John Jenkins, Colonel Tim Collins and
@MrPaulStott
👇🏻
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An expansive definition of Islamophobia is being adopted across the country without proper scrutiny.
@PeterTatchell
has fallen foul of the Islamophobia label for confronting the extremists of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Read his essay in our anthology of concerns:
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Download and read the report, ‘Policing Hate: Have we abandoned freedom and equality?’ by Joanna Williams here
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Civitas Senior Fellow
@Ed_Husain
believes that the proposed definition of Islamophobia will undermine freedom of expression.
We fear the definition will be weaponised against journalists, historians & politicians, not protect Muslims from bigotry & hate:
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Stuart Agnew MEP on why the Common Agricultural Policy doesn't represent a good deal for the UK:
#EU
#EUreferendum
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A really outstanding piece of analysis by
@KateAndrs
in the
@Telegraph
Uses new evidence from our International Health Care Outcomes Index to ask is it just about more money?
👏
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@BetterOffOut
report shows no benefit to UK from EU representation at international organisations. Read our blog
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NEW: The Strategic Dependence of UK Universities on China – and where should they turn next?
Up to third of Chinese UK university funding comes from sources linked to Chinese military or banned by the United States.
Read it here:
@RobertClark87
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'Get out of the
#EU
to restore democratic control to the people of Britain' says
@toadmeister
#EUref
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The govt's £9m leaflet is yet another example of how the
#EU
has corrupted our political culture says
@dgreen_uk
:
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ICYMI: This week we launched a collection of concerns over the Islamophobia definition being adopted across the UK without scrutiny.
The definition will not protect ordinary Muslims from hate & bigotry, it will be used to police public discourse:
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NEW It’s Quite OK to Walk Away: A review of the UK’s Brexit options with the help of seven international databases
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Moves by the EU to hit the UK with trade restrictions would be an act of self-harm
@Justin_Protts
in
@BrexitCentral
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Great to see
@martinbeckford
and the
@DailyMailUK
cover our polling on cannabis out this morning.
Psychosis rates in soft on drugs Portugal have shot up 30 TIMES. Time to ask if we need another 6 million cannabis users in Britain...
via
@MailOnline
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Read
@toadmeister
demolish the Remain campaign's arguments point by point in his 3,000 word essay here:
#EU
#Brexit
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Today we put out big new figures on cannabis - great to have
@ShaunBaileyUK
backing our work:
"This is the moment parents fight back against politicians” desperately trying to legalise cannabis.
In London alone, this would mean 800,000 new cannabis users.
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House prices set to keep rising whether we
#Brexit
or not - but a fall would be a good thing says
@danielbentley
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Download and read the report, ‘‘The New Syria?’: Critical perspectives on the deradicalisation and reintegration of Islamist offenders’ edited by Emma Webb here
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A free people as well as safe, strong and better off.
#Brexit
will mean being even safer, even stronger, even more prosperous, but also a free and democratic people.
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NEW 'Transgender Children: A discussion'
Check out our latest pamphlet, looking at the increase in the number of children identifying as transgender, and responses to it
With essays from Toby Young
@toadmeister
and Stephanie Davies-Arai
@cwknews
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NEW REPORT:
#BREAKINGTHECARECEILING
🧑🎓14% of care leavers go to university by 19, compared to 47% of young people who didn’t grow up in care.
👀It will take 107 years to close this gap at the current rate of progress.
Read it here:
@FirstStarUK
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The Eurosceptic's Handbook: 50 live issues in the Brexit debate. Download today:
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Great report by
@CamillaTominey
‘Niche' transgender ideology 'corrosive' to society, says report
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'Restoring a Nation of Home Owners', Civitas's latest on housing by
@Saunderspeter
, can be downloaded here:
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Emma Webb, Director of
@FIDE_Civitas
writes a refreshing new article, 'Scotland's new Hate Crime Bill imposes a new system of blasphemy. It urgently needs rejecting'
@ConHome
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Who stands to lose most from trade barriers between the UK and the EU? Our new analysis, by
@Justin_Protts
:
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NEW Theresa May's former head of immigration enforcement writes for Civitas today on the failings in the asylum system
Read David Wood's pamphlet here:
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NEW: The Politics of Fantasy - Immigration policy in the UK after Brexit, by Alasdair Palmer and David Wood
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‘Christianity in Iraq is perilously close to extinction.’
The Archbishop of Erbil, The Rt Rev Bashar Warda, addressed Civitas this week.
Read his remarks in full here:
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Ahead of Thursday, take the time to read
@toadmeister
's 3000 word essay on why he'll be voting to leave
#Brexit
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The racialisation of campus relations is driving a wedge between students and undermines any sense of our common humanity, says Ruth Mieschbuehler in a new Civitas report. Watch our interview with
@ruth_miesch
on her new report.
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'If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system’ Tony Benn on the
#EU
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3/ “The Macpherson report has been seminal in making matters worse by privileging subjective feeling over objective fact, which is against our legal tradition of how we deal with evidence, as well as fermenting an undue ideological influence on the police.” [R.Norrie in REPORT]
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Squeamishness about diversity risks catastrophe - Trevor Phillips:
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'What brings David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan together is using the
#EU
to overrule democratic majority'
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'The benefits of the Single Market do not include either growth of our exports or productivity' via
@capx
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What kind of leader connives with a foreign power to threaten his own people?
@David_Cameron
Go to the back of the queue,
@POTUS
An empty threat from an unworthy president, more in the spirit of George III than George Washington.
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Congratulations to West London Free School Primary, one of our Core Knowledge pioneers, on its first Ofsted rating: Outstanding
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'Foolish to make concessions over the Single Market in Brexit negotiations, when it isn't an economic benefit'
@CapX
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NEW REPORT: Read ‘Policing Hate: Have we abandoned freedom and equality?’ by Joanna Williams here:
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.
@RichardDawkins
is a contributor to our collection of concerns over the definition of
#Islamophobia
.
Protect people, not ideas.
Islamophobia: otiose word that doesn’t deserve definition. Hatred of Muslims is unequivocally reprehensible. Hatred of Islam on the other hand is easily justified, as is hatred of any obnoxious ideology. Muslims themselves are the main victims of Islam
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NEW FROM CIVITAS...
‼️ cannabis legalisation would see 6 million more users in UK
A million young adults would pick up a joint for the first time💥
👮Parents want tough action on cannabis - 7 in 10 back stop and search
Read here:
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Great write up in today's
@thetimes
by
@Geri_E_L_Scott
of our latest investigation into China and its influence in the Commonwealth of Nations...
Read the report here:
@RobertClark87
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⚠️Warning mega-thread!
The results of
@Civitas_UK
International Health Outcomes Index are in (1/18)
First up, health care expenditure...
UK spending ranked 10th out of 19 - midtable.
The UK moved up from 12th in 2011 to 10th in 2019
#NHSTaboo
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Good to see
@Jeremy_Hunt
throwing open doctors' training to more students, as Civitas called for earlier this year
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.
@SBSisters
Southall Black Sisters have been on the ground confronting hate since 1979. They too have been labelled Islamophobic for confronting illiberal voices in minority communities.
Read Pragna Patel's concerns over the
#Islamophobia
definition:
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The gap is growing between planning permissions for new homes and housebuilding activity. Briefing by
@danielbentley
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#Brexit
will allow the UK to reject the EU’s self-serving regional protectionism says
@dgreen_uk
:
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Our defence and security lead researcher
@RobertClark87
has put this together for
@CentralComment
on shocking new evidence showing 1 in 6 medical supplies come from China.
We can’t be naive about the threat to our NHS…
As research published this week shows just how reliant the NHS has become on Chinese-made products,
@RobertClark87
of
@Civitas_UK
writes that we must do all we can to break this reliance, including ensuring a competitive British manufacturing industry.
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Is British research helping to arm China? We need to wake up to the threat.
This must read in the
@thetimes
with
@Fhamiltontimes
features our own China expert
@RadoTylecote
who calls for tougher measures…
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An extended essay on integration in 21st century Britain, w/ commentaries from
@David_Goodhart
and Jon Gower Davies
'Race and Faith: The Deafening Silence', by Trevor Phillips. Published on May 10. Pre-order:
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(18/18) AND FINALLY...
For all those who say it is "America or the NHS"
... this graph debunks those claims.
Almost all other countries have universal health care coverage. Look at that final column...
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REPORT: Through the BRI, China is developing its own group of organisations including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a potential rival to the World Bank, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a counter to NATO.
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Download and read the report, ‘A hat trick of failures: How ‘the Blob’ led the British Government down the wrong path’ by Jim McConalogue and Tim Knox here
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Relying on private housebuilders to supply the homes we need has had disastrous consequences
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'The UK would be foolish to make concessions over the Single Market during Brexit negotiations with the EU'
@CapX
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Tony Blair thinks he can trick us into having a second referendum because in 2016 we didn't know the terms on which we would leave the EU. But the vote was to leave whatever the eventual agreement.
Tony Blair thinks he has discovered a form of words that could lead to the reversal of the EU referendum result, but the 2016 vote was a decision to leave whatever the terms might be.
#Brexit
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'The EU Single Market: A club of high and severe unemployment' - our latest Europe Debate paper is out today:
http://t.co/fTEgsQ6Hkf
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#Brexit
an opportunity for the UK to stop neglecting the rest of the world in favour of Europe says
@JonathanArnott
:
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NEW: The history and significance of the 1961 Land Compensation Act in the context of English housing and planning.
An essay by
@danielbentley
:
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Emma Webb, Director of
@FIDE_Civitas
writes a magnificent article, 'We are witnessing a cultural purge with an unquenchable appetite'
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The new PM
@theresa_may
has indicated plans to accelerate housebuilding. Why a new approach is indeed needed:
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What David Blunkett once thought "borders on fascism" re immigration has now become his own position
@DouglasKMurray
:
http://t.co/EyFNXlLZXg
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'New homes are being approved by planners in much greater numbers than they are being built'
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Kinship carers are heroes and we need to find better ways of supporting them as they step in to look after family members...
Big clap for
@kinshipcharity
here...
🚀Today we are launching the results of our 2022
#KinshipCare
Financial Allowances survey.
❗ In 2022 89% of
#KinshipCarers
had worried about their financial circumstances, an increase from 82% in last year's survey.
💻 Read our findings here:
#2022FinancialAllowances
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Our director of statistics Dr Richard Norrie frisks the police on today's
@capx
website and asks:
Has the tide turned on woke coppers?
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'Five things Theresa May can do to solve Britain's housing crisis'. Civitas's
@danielbentley
in the Telegraph:
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Race and Faith: The Deafening Silence, the new Civitas pamphlet by Trevor Phillips &
@David_Goodhart
. Download here:
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