Sentences with phrase «leading thinktanks»

Over the last 6 months the Policy & Reserach Unit has been undertaking an outreach project with leading thinktanks, business and NGOs.

The government's new tax and spending watchdog needs urgent reform to establish its independence from George Osborne's Treasury, according to a report today by one of Britain's leading thinktanks.

He says: «I'm confident that Demos will help us with these questions, alongside other leading thinktanks that we have always worked with.

One day Astle might, perhaps, be tempted by a job inside government, but for the last five years he has found his forte lies in leading a thinktank.

I think the language of catastrophism, chaos, doom — whatever you like to call it — has actually sobered up, in the UK at least, having peaked about three or four years ago when newspapers such as The Independent ran dramatic front pages on a regular basis, a new umbrella body for activists called Stop Climate Chaos came into existence, Roland Emmerich had the Atlantic Ocean freezing in an instant in The Day After tomorrow, and a leading thinktank lambasted a portion of the British press for indulging in «climate porn».

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Chatham House is the UK's leading foreign policy thinktank.

Thinktanks like the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Demos are leading the assault against the conferences, which have dominated British politics throughout the early autumn period for decades.

The independent review, to be led by the intelligence and military thinktank the Royal United Services Institute, will look at the proportionality of the data gathered for surveillance purposes and the legal framework in which this happens.

[31] According to The Guardian, «The reports, claiming the power plant rules would lead to rolling blackouts, send electricity prices skyrocketing, and devastate local economies, are being published in 16 states by a network of pro-corporate and ultra-conservative thinktanks.»

Via Joe Romm at Climate Progress this report by Thomas Sterner and Martin Persson from the leading US environmental thinktank, Resources for the Future *, endorsing the key conclusions of the Stern Review.