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Polly Mackenzie

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Sanctuary UK: reforming our broken asylum system

This paper argues that the UK Home Office should lose its responsibility for immigration, with a new arm’s-length body named Sanctuary UK set up to overhaul the system and create a new, more humane system.
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Move on upstream: crime, prevention and relationships

This report proposes a new approach to crime prevention, in order to reduce crime to levels current police numbers can reasonably deal with. This includes a new, local authority-based crime prevention service to help identify and deter criminal behaviour.
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Regulating the future of vaping

This paper is the first as part of a new research project focusing on developing a new approach to regulation of the vaping industry in the United Kingdom.
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The gravitational state: making democracy work

While there is such a thing as society, it doesn’t happen by accident. Increasingly, the state needs to take a leading role in building and shaping it – we need a 'gravitational state' that pulls people together into a society. This paper is the last...
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The humble policy maker: making democracy work

This paper looks at what’s wrong with politics and policy-making - why the basic way we make decisions is undermining our ability to navigate this age of exponential change.