The West, Islam and Islamism: Is Ideological Islam Compatible With Liberal Democracy?

Politics & Social Sciences

Cox, Caroline

Marks, John

Philosophy

Civitas

What Your Year 2 Child Needs to Know

Robert Whelan

Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka

Designed for parents, teachers and home educators to use with children, this third volume in the Core Knowledge UK series presents the knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging Year 3 education, including: Familiar and favourite poems  -  old and new, from the beloved limericks of Edward Lear to Allan Ahlberg's whimsical 'The Answer'. Literature from around the world  -  read African, Chinese and Japanese folktales; myths from ancient Greece; British classics including excerpts from A Bear Called Paddington and Peter Pan; and traditional tall tales such as 'Robin Hood and his Merry Men'. Learning about language  -  learn the basic building blocks of written English, all explained with a touch of humour. Geography of the world and Britain  -  explore the rivers of the world, learn about the important rivers and basins of the UK and take a ride down the rivers leading into the Humber Estuary. World and British history  -  travel to Ancient Greece, visit China and Japan and explore British history from the Normans to the Elizabethan Era. Visual arts  -  try engaging activities while learning about line, form and symmetry; learn how to look at great architecture like the Parthenon, the Great Stupa and the Guggenheim Museum; discuss landscapes, still lifes and mythological paintings. Music  -  become familiar with basic music theory, great composers, instruments and fun songs to sing including popular songs such as 'Do-Re-Me' and 'The Hippopotamus Song'. Mathematics  -  challenging activities ranging from topics such as fractions, three-digit addition and subtraction, multiplication and division problems as well as a first look at equations and geometry. Science  -  learn about the cycle of life and the seasons, simple machines, the wonder of the human body and more, including lots of hands-on activities and stories about famous scientists.

What Your Year 3 Child Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Year 3 Education (Core Knowledge UK)

Education & Teaching

E.D. Hirsch

Schools & Teaching

Designed for parents, teachers and home educators to use with children, this fifth volume in the Core Knowledge UK series presents the specific and shared knowledge that should be at the core of a challenging Year 5 education, including: Familiar and favourite poems - old and new - from Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott' to Roger McGough's 'Sky in the Pie'. Literature from around the world - folk tales from Ethiopia and China, Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as well as extracts from great classics of literature: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels and Treasure Island. Learning about language - learn the basic building blocks of written English, such as sentence structure, parts of speech and punctuation, as well as writing and research, all explained with a touch of humour. Geography - learn to read maps, explore the geography of several regions of the UK and sail to the South Seas with Captain Cook. British history - explore British history from the Act of Union to the abolition of slavery, through the Georgian era that included the American War of Independence, the French Revolution and the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo. Visual arts - see how artists have expressed themselves through styles as different as rococo and modernism, whilst learning what the choice of different styles implies in terms of painting, architecture and furniture. Music - become familiar with elements of basic music theory, great composers, instruments and fun songs to sing including 'The Skye Boat Song', 'Heart of Oak' and 'The British Grenadier', as well as modern songs like 'With a Little Help From My Friends'. Mathematics - develop a knack for solving challenging problems including counting with negative numbers, addition and subtraction of fractions and decimals, multiplication and division with decimals, geometry and measurement problems. Science - learn about the workings of the human body, atoms and molecules, electricity, geology and meteorology, including hands-on activities and stories about famous scientists.

What your year 5 child needs to know

Hirsch, E.D.

What your year 6 child needs to know

Costs and Benefits of Large-Scale Immigration

Rowthorn, Robert

Politics & Government

For more than half a millennium, Britain has managed diversity through a process of organic integration, with newcomers and their traditions gradually absorbed into the culture. But in this new age of 'superdiversity', with more people of very different backgrounds arriving in greater numbers than ever before, is that enough Trevor Phillips, the former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, argues that Britain has become complacent about its ability to manage its diversity, and that integration is not treated as the priority it should be. There are two principal problems, he argues. One is that while overt bigotry has declined, society is becoming more and more stratified by racial and ethnic differences. The other is that the world-views of very different groups are colliding. Incompatible attitudes to sex, religion, belief and the rule of law are producing frictions for which the tried and tested social lubricants now seem just too thin. The response of our political and media elites has too often been evasion, driven by a fear that talking about the issues will stigmatise vulnerable groups, and to blame the historic prejudices of the dominant majority. Phillips warns that this stance is dangerously misguided and will not do any more. Squeamishness about diversity risks the country sleepwalking to catastrophe, setting community against community and undermining Britain's tradition of liberal democracy.

Race & Faith: The Deafening Silence

Phillips, Trevor

Sociology

As the UK looks to benefit from the opportunities afforded by Brexit, Theresa May intends that the country's economic success will be underpinned by a modern industrial strategy. The first outline of this was set out in a green paper published in January. In this pamphlet, Rupert Darwall argues that an industrial strategy is needed, in order to provide a coherent framework for policy and to reduce the incidence of ad hoc interventions. But how does the government's approach measure upBenchmarking the green paper against corporate strategy-making, he warns that it fails to offer the the analytical rigour and structured thinking required for a modern industrial strategy. It identifies productivity as the country's principal economic challenge but does not advance credible policies to address it. It proposes an industrial strategy that does not have industry at its heart, prioritising decarbonisation over re-industrialisation. The Prime Minister wishes to create the conditions in which successful businesses can emerge and grow. But an industrial strategy that does not help business improve its cost performance is likely to be a losing strategy. Access to abundant primary energy - first water power, then coal - is the development story of Britain's industrial heartlands. Yet the potential of fracking to turn the North West into the energy capital of Europe is ignored, as is developing Britain's undersea coal reserves, while the hydrocarbon-intensive chemicals sector is written out of the strategy's script. A laundry list of existing government policies is not a strategy, Darwell writes, nor does it constitute a break with business-as-usual. Rather than seizing the opportunity provided by Brexit to reshape the economy, the industrial strategy green paper is going through the motions.

Going Through the Motions: The Industrial Strategy Green Paper

Business & Money

Daewall, Rupert

Industries

Why aren't we building more homes? This has been the perennial question in housing policy, as initiative after initiative seems to have made too little headway. But, as Daniel Bentley explains in this new guide to the housing crisis, the challenge is not just to increase the number of new homes, but to ensure the right ones are built in the right places. The barrier to this lies where few policymakers have cared to look in recent decades - in the trade in land. While much of the focus of recent reforms has been on increasing the amount of land that is approved for housing development, little consideration has been given to ensuring that it is then used in the best interests of the community. This has been a major oversight, as development land is being traded at values that too often require a slow drip-feed of desperately-needed new homes, or prevent affordable housing commitments from being honoured in full. Together with the under-utilisation of sites that could be used for new housing, these are the consequences of allowing monopolistic landowners to extract too high a price from new developments. Not only is this process detrimental to the community, but the windfall gains that landowners are collecting in the process - often running to millions of pounds per hectare - are unearned. As the classical economists knew, the increase in the value of land owing to its location is the product of the labour and the investment of the community, not the individual landowner. Here, Daniel Bentley argues that we need to revisit the land question and design a new framework to ensure that sites for new housing are brought forward in the quantities and at the prices that are compatible with the country's housing needs today. Only by reforming the land market, and rewiring incentives for landowners, can we hope to build the homes we need in the places we need them.

Land Question

Bentley, Daniel

The Left Case for Brexit: Active government for an independent UK

Philip Whyman

Economics

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