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The many tiers of British justice
Civitas has just published an invaluable report on how identity politics and progressivist causes are undermining the impartiality of our…
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Claire Fox
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Inside The Lords: assisted dying, abortion and power grabs
Claire Fox reports on a busy week in parliament, and invites you to join her at The Academy in July.
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Claire Fox
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Independent bookshops: reports of their death are greatly exaggerated
In a guest post, Joanne May explains why the opening of her conservative-focused bookshop matters and argues that bookshops have an enduring power, even…
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Joanne May
Rehabilitating prisoners matters
Debating Matters Beyond Bars has been a fantastic project to get prisoners thinking and helping them to prepare for the outside world as active and able…
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Claire Fox
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Mo Lovatt
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Suffer the children? The dangers of expanding the realm of mental health
This is an edited version of my foreword to an important new report by Lucy Beney for the Family Education Trust.
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Claire Fox
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The Equality Act isn't working
In a guest post, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don't Divide Us, explains why the Act seems to be exacerbating divisions and encouraging workplace…
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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
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Inside The Lords: from brittle Labour to surging Reform
Micro-managing regulations, banter bans and bureaucratic virtue signalling - Claire reports from inside parliament.
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Claire Fox
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Andrew Doyle: ‘People are realising that woke is deeply authoritarian’
In a wide-ranging interview, Claire Fox talks to the author and comedian about his new book, 'The End of Woke', and why there is much still to be done…
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Claire Fox
The Memorisers and the language control of the 2020s
Author Rosemary Jenkinson on the problems with the publishing industry’s current obsession with identity and the wider policing of language.
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Rosemary Jenkinson
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May 2025

Understanding our great upheaval
The books and ideas behind the Academy 2025
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Claire Fox
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Jacob Reynolds
The EU is manufacturing misinformation
A new report reveals how Brussels has spent €649million waging a propaganda war on free speech in the name of fighting 'disinformation' and 'hate…
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Norman Lewis
EU summit: why a 'reset' won't 'rebuild trade'
In a guest post, trade expert Catherine McBride explains why the Labour government’s plans for closer ties with the EU won’t solve our economic…
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Catherine McBride
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