Still Asleep at the Wheel A Further Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools April 15, 2026 Download Publication Online Reader A new report by Policy Exchange reveals that secondary schools in England are still heavily influenced by gender ideology. Too many secondary schools are socially transitioning gender-distressed children without reliably informing parents, failing to adhere to their safeguarding responsibilities and compromising the rights and interests of other children in
Defence and National Security: Fixing the Machine April 9, 2026 Download Publication Online Reader This essay, written by three former senior Ministry of Defence officials, contributes to the debate about Britain’s defence preparedness, following the publication of The Say-Do Gaps in Defence by Policy Exchange Senior Fellow Air Marshal Edward Stringer CB CBE earlier this year. In Defence and National Security: Fixing the Machine, the authors argue that the institutional machinery
Policy Exchange’s Grotius Prize 2023 was presented to Giorgia Meloni, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Government, during her visit here, in recognition of her stalwart support for Ukraine.Accepting the Grotius Prize – a seventeenth century copy of Grotius’s On the Law of War and Peace in recognition of her contribution to upholding the international rules-based order from Lord Godson, Director of Policy Exchange, she said:“It is a time of
Realising the Fingleton Review April 2, 2026 Download Publication Online Reader The Government’s acceptance of the Fingleton Review’s recommendations in full marks a serious and welcome shift in favour of removing the primary regulatory barriers to nuclear expansion, as recommended by the Policy Exchange Nuclear Enterprise Commission in June. By accepting the Review’s core diagnosis and signalling renewed political backing for the sector, Ministers have taken an important step towards reversing
Resolution Tempered With Restraint Lessons from the Cancelled WE-177 Replacement Programme March 30, 2026 Download Publication Online Reader In June 2025, the British Government announced plans to purchase twelve new F-35A fighter jets and equip them with American tactical nuclear weapons. This reignited an old debate: is participating in NATO’s nuclear mission with US controlled nuclear weapons enough, or should the UK rebuild its own sovereign tactical nuclear capability? Resolution Tempered
This opinion piece was originally published in the Telegraph on 29th March 2026, here. When the British Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh arrived on a freezing European continent on New Year’s Day 1814, he carried with him instructions from the Cabinet about the peace he was tasked to negotiate. Napoleon was on the run after his disastrous march to Moscow and the Sixth Coalition was taking shape to finally bring an
Sickfluencers and AI How technology is changing the Health and Disability Benefits System March 23, 2026 Download Publication Online Reader Sickfluencers and AI: How technology is changing the Health and Disability Benefits System finds evidence of large-scale online communities dominated by posts about what health and disability benefits people can claim, how to describe symptoms, what to include in forms including explicit encouragement to “lay it on thick.”This report exposes
Worlds Apart: British Muslim Attitudes on the Iran Conflict March 17, 2026 Download Publication Polling Tables A new report by Policy Exchange, Worlds Apart: British Muslim Attitudes on the Iran Conflict, reveals that recent developments in the Middle East are being viewed differently by Muslims in the UK when compared with the wider public. British Polling Council (BPC) member JL Partners polled a nationally representative UK sample of 2,223 adults, as
How to Save the NHS in 1000 Days Adopting a Dutch-style social insurance model for healthcare March 10, 2026 Download Publication Online Reader How to Save the NHS in 1000 Days: Adopting a Dutch-style social insurance model for healthcare sets out a clear and practical roadmap for implementing a new universal healthcare system in England, modelled on the world leading Dutch social insurance model. This builds on the recommendations Policy
Curate’s Egg The Government's new community cohesion strategy March 6, 2026 Download Publication Online Reader Curate’s Egg is Policy Exchange’s analysis of the Government’s new social cohesion strategy.It proposes the creation of a “special representative on anti-Muslim hostility,” which will almost certainly hand an official megaphone to an activist with an expansive view of what anti-Muslim hostility is. It creates potential free speech risks, pledging to crack down on “divisive content” online.
