The United Kingdom: Time to drop the vaccine’s patent

In the United Kingdom, several demonstrators dressed in black carried coffins to Downing Street last week with the black and … More

The Case of Shamima Begum

[Image from Flickr.com] In February 2015, 15-year-old Shamima Begum left London to join IS in Syria. In 2019 — days … More

It is six years since the martyrdom of 21 Coptic boys in Libya by Daesh. At the time, Bishop Angaelos … More

Last month, the Association of British Muslims and the Next Century Foundation hosted a joint meeting discussing issues of importance … More

The Legatum Institute’s 2020 Prosperity Index measures the prosperity over the last decade of 167 nations that together contain 99.4% … More

Despite consistent opposition to the High Speed 2 (HS2) railway, the £106bn project was recently given the green-light with construction … More

The following has been prepared by Next Century Foundation Research Officers Lauretta Garrard and Lara Miriam Ibrahim for submission by … More

One of our oral interventions to the UN Human Rights Council – Modern Slavery in the UK and how Covid-19 has affected victims of this crime

NCF Researcher Lauretta Garrard examines the lack of a level playing field for black graduates in the UK. The opening … More

The Next Century Foundation’s Healing the Nations Summer Conference The Next Century Foundation is holding a ten-day online conference … More

Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Russian ex-finance minister Vladimir Chernukhin, recently became the biggest female donor to any political party … More

Issues of the Week We all have something to answer for – from God in his Heaven to you as … More

COVID-19 has severely impacted the lives of disadvantaged pupils in the UK. Many are back at school this month, but … More

During this COVID-19 crisis, many feel isolated, “locked in” due to restrictions on their daily life – understandably. But what … More

Last weekend thousands took to the streets of Britain to protest the killing of George Floyd and voice their support … More

The UK now has a worse death rate than any other comparable nation, bar Spain, according to the World’s Press. … More

The adults are back in the room was the phrase being used by the Westminster commentariat following the return of Prime … More

Some of you may remember Joelle Manih and Ethan Jahan as the Producer and Director respectively of The English Hour … More

In 2019, the United Kingdom ranked 9th among the People’s Republic of China’s top trading partners in terms of export … More

Are there lessons still to be learnt about the way the East has handled coronavirus? As Europe and the US … More

This interesting reflection explains a lot about how the British Government were handling Covid-19 in the early days. It has … More

The current coronavirus crisis originated in China and has become – quite naturally – the only issue about which most … More

About two weeks before the 2019 parliamentary elections, UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wrote an article for The Times accusing … More

There is to be a memorial lecture in remembrance of the great peacebuilder and NCF Trustee, the late Mrs June … More