This updated comparison of global health systems places the UK second to bottom across a series of major health care outcomes, including life expectancy and survival rates from cancer, strokes and heart attacks. New data is included for health spending for 2020 and life expectancy and mortality rates. This comparative study ranks the performance of… [Read More]
The Prime Minister and current government have advocated ‘Global Britain’ at several key moments, and it is therefore important to consider what it means and how the UK government can achieve this ambition. This research paper sets out to identify what the UK does differently from France, Germany and Sweden, notably through their outward trade… [Read More]
Civitas polling says – 6 million new cannabis users if cannabis is legalised. New polling shows a million young adults (age 18-24) would try cannabis for the first time if the UK legalised cannabis. More than 1.5 million parents of primary school children would take up cannabis if it were legalised. Seven in ten parents… [Read More]
In this latest publication from the Defence and Security Unit (DSU) at Civitas, Robert Clark and Roberto White highlight the growing risks of Russian and Chinese expansion into the Arctic, calling for a new Canada, UK, US (CAUKUS) defence and security pact to counter Putin’s aggressive Arctic expansionism, and growing Chinese ambition. Former soldier, Robert… [Read More]
This Civitas report takes a closer look at Chinese-manufactured goods in NHS supply chains and discovers the NHS is ‘dangerously reliant’ on China for medical supplies. Analysis by Robert Clark and Dr Richard Norrie finds 1 in 6 (17 per cent) products contained on the Government’s ‘Disaster Relief List’ are sourced from China. In the… [Read More]
Unequal health outcomes have become the subject to increased political attention in recent years. Richard Norrie, director of the statistics and policy programme at Civitas takes a look at the NHS Race and Health Observatory (RHO) as a case study and its work to ‘identify and tackle ethnic inequalities’ in health. The RHO exists to… [Read More]
This short introduction to Islam in Europe provides an overview of recent legislation and policy approaches to Islam across 10 European countries. It outlines legislation and regulation on the wearing of Islamic headwear, halal slaughter, Islamic religious marriages (and divorces), Islamic education (such as madrasas), and Acts which have had a demonstrable effect upon Islamic… [Read More]
Richard Norrie, director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas takes a forensic look at multiracial Britain. In this major new study of multi-ethnic Britain, Richard Norrie makes the case that ethnic minority individuals fare better here than in the familial countries of origin, with a confident minority middle-class. Comparing the prospects of… [Read More]
In the third of a three-part series on UK trade, Phil Radford looks at why manufacturing in strategic industries has either moved offshore or stayed offshore. Prospects for a Global Britain: Three Strategic Export Industries and How Freeports Can Help examines what the UK can do to bring it back or encourage new investment. Radford… [Read More]
In this report published by Civitas, Patrick Minford (Professor of Applied Economics, Cardiff University) analyses the ways in which official trade modelling and policy assumptions have underestimated the gains from free trade with non-EU countries. The UK government has rolled over almost all Free Trade Agreements between the EU and non-EU countries, negotiated new deals… [Read More]