Commentariat

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
Welcome to this week’s Think-tank Roundup. This week we have calls to scrap the next census, ‘Policy Exchange do Blade Runner’ and even the suggestion that all this web stuff is slowly throttling the very idea of think-tanks – your correspondent, [...]

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
Welcome to this week’s Think-tank Roundup. As well as the controversial Policy Exchange report and some good stuff on events in Georgia you’ll find rows over the Muslim Writers Awards, debates about the legacy of Solzhenitsyn, windfall taxes for energy companies [...]

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
Welcome to this week’s Think-tank Roundup – everything from ‘new money’ and supply-side oil crunches to the call for better teachers and yes, Michael Gove’s ‘Nuts’ (there was more to his speech than that storm suggested). Things seem to be quiet [...]

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
Don’t let the mention of that lazy trope ‘political correctness’ put you off this weeks ‘must read’ piece -the CPS report ‘Through the Looking Glass’ on Western foreign policy and the sometimes erroneous attitudes that frame it. No roundup next week [...]

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.
This week’s ‘must read’ item is the Theos report on the role of Christianity in Britain today, more details below. Other than that enjoy and as ever please flag anything I may have missed. Also if anyone would like to be [...]

A weekly roundup of publications, reports, events & articles from the leading UK think tanks.

Even although I’m now having to leave out as much as I’m putting in (see below) I’m conscious this is still quite a lengthy read (certainly by the standard of most blog posts). So each week I’ll flag a ‘must read’ item for those who don’t have the time to read the full post let alone the content it highlights - an entirely subjective choice on my part of course but I’ll endeavour to be as fair and non-partisan about that choice as I can. This week it has to be the Joseph Rowntree paper “A minimum income standard for Britain: What people think”, touching as it does on issues of relative v’s absolute poverty and making judgements about income levels needed to ‘participate in society’…

As promised last week I’ve ditched the classification into left & right and decided to break things down slightly differently into three sections - I’ll highlight any formal reports and publications issued, articles / briefings or blogposts from their own sites or in the MSM and finally public events or debates that might be of [...]

Welcome to this weeks round-up - an (almost) ‘David Davis / 42-day’ free zone. As of next week I’m going to drop the classification between left & right - I always anticipated this causing problems and I’ve actually been contacted by some organisations with a polite request to classify them differently. While some groups like [...]

Welcome to this weeks round-up - everything from drug abuse in prisons and ‘virtual caliphates’ to burying carbon and a dearth of ‘jocks’ on the news. As before please flag in the comments anything worthy you think I might have missed…
Right \ Libertarian Think Tanks

The Centre for Policy Studies has a paper from Huseyin Djemil, [...]