Education Secretary Michael Gove announced the creation of a Due Diligence Unit within the DfE tasked with ensuring that extremist religious views are not taught in schools. This is a direct adoption of a recommendation from Policy Exchange 2010 report Faith Schools We Can Believe In.
Rt Hon Ken Clarke MP on the Justice & Security Bill
Policy Exchange was delighted to host Rt Hon Ken Clarke MP, Minister without Portfolio, to deliver a keynote speech on the upcoming Justice & Security Bill.
Rt Hon Jim Murphy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, launched Labour's defence policy review at Policy Exchange today. After the event he took part in an interview setting out the questions that will inform the review and what they will mean for defence investment.
Lord Carlile warns of new wave of foreign terrorists to be released onto Britain's streets
Lib Dem terrorism expert Lord Carlile writes exclusively for Policy Exchange warning that the current application of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act is putting British security at risk by preventing the deportation of foreign terrorists.
The Spectator quotes Communities Secretary Eric Pickles MP speaking about the importance of allowing people to freely wear religious symbols in the UK, prior to his speech on integration to Policy Exchange and British Future.
The Daily Mail covers Communities Secretary Eric Pickles MP's upcoming keynote speech on integration to Policy Exchange and British Future. Pickles will argue at the event that people in Britain should be allowed to freely wear religious symbols as faith provides a clear moral compass.
In Ties that Bind former Islamist Shiraz Maher recaptures the lost history of Muslim service to the Crown. Maher shows that this collective past constitutes the basis of a new shared future – which can endure in no less testing circumstances.
Faith Schools We Can Believe In proposes key structural, legislative and contractual changes to the way in which both the Department for Education and Ofsted work in preventing schools coming under extremist influence.
Lib Dem terrorism expert Lord Carlile writes exclusively for Policy Exchange warning that the current application of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act is putting British security at risk by preventing the deportation of foreign terrorists.
Neil O'Brien, Policy Exchange's Director, writes on his Telegraph blog examining the case for a new riot act that includes a public declaration warning potential rioters of the consequences of their actions and an online version to accompany social media attempts to organise disorder.
Policy Exchange and British Future host Eric Pickles’s first major speech of 2013. He will review the lessons of the last year for how we find common ground in modern Britain, and set out the challenges ahead for strengthening our sense of shared citizenship in an increasingly diverse society.
