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Civitas is now on Facebook!
Posted by Stephen Clarke in Uncategorized on 30/11/2011
Civitas is now on Facebook, find us here at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Civitas-the-Institute-for-the-Study-of-Civil-Society/281404671895147
A convenient place for Facebook users to keep up to date with all our research and activities!
The EU’s roadmap for transport
Posted by Natalie Hamill in European Union, Uncategorized on 30/03/2011
The EU’s single market is epitomised by its adherence to the four freedoms, as set down in the Single European Act: the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. Vital for the successful realisation of these four principles is the EU’s transport policy. Yet this area is under increasing pressure to modernise and evolve to meet consumer needs and the challenges of the future. This week, the European Commission published its white paper on transport. The paper sets out the Commission’s plans to meet climate change goals, reform an industry with a cumbersome overreliance on fossil fuels, and to improve and standardise transport links between the 27 member states. Unveiling the paper, Siim Kallas, EU Commissioner for Transport, emphasised its vital importance: ‘The choices we make today will determine the shape of transport in 2050.’
Manageable? Perhaps. Desirable? Far from it.
Posted by Stephen Clarke in Economics, Politics, Tax and Spend, Uncategorized on 17/01/2011
George Santayana wrote ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’; Ed Miliband would be wise to heed Santayana’s warning in formulating his administration’s economic policies, however evidence so far is that he hasn’t.
A Stitch in Time saves Nine
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Uncategorized on 15/06/2010
It’s hard to argue with the careful and earnest semantics of the coalition document, in which Cameron and Clegg pledge to ‘tackle the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood’ writes Zenobe Reade. Yet the remit of Cameron’s avowed campaign against ‘premature sexualisation’ is unclear -
The future of broadcasting
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on 08/04/2010
A new blog has been started on the future of broadcasting by David Graham, one of Britain’s most distinguished programme makers.
New Equality Bill Needed to Grant Men More Leisure
Posted by David Conway in Uncategorized on 09/03/2010
Yesterday to mark International Women’s Day, the OECD published a report comparing the amounts of leisure enjoyed on average per day by men and women in the developed world. The report found that, on average, women enjoyed less leisure than men, a finding that led it to conclude that ‘governments and firms need to do more to tackle the gender equality gap’.
I wonder how keen the OECD would have been to make such a call had the methodology it employed to compute the quantities of leisure enjoyed by the two sexes not been quite so obviously flawed.