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The authors find that NCHIs have been applied ‘in a manner  inconsistent with freedom of speech.’  Norrie and Singh discuss the role of the College of Policing, criticising this body for ‘a progressive  reorientation of the police.’ This work examines how the College of Policing has deepened the  influence of identitarianism and looks at the recent ‘Race Action Plan’ as an example of how the  organisation is encouraging identity politics, based on the radical political ideology known as ‘critical  race theory.’ This reorientation is compounded by an ‘infrastructure of identity politics’ within the  police through independent advisory groups (IAGs).  The authors criticise these groups for being ‘opaque’ and find they are dominated by ‘identitarian  activists.’ We Need to Check Your Thinking includes a foreword by David G. Green and reveals how  police priorities are being distorted by identity politics. The authors conclude that the police are in  breach of the College of Policing’s own Code of Ethics, particularly in regard to impartiality, and call  for the police to be called to account for their practices to reduce the role of identity politics and  return the police to their traditional role of protecting the public.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575189905681,"sku":"GOR012983179","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912581337.jpg?v=1751187043"},{"product_id":"radical-progressive-university-guide-book-richard-norrie-9781912581399","title":"The Radical Progressive University Guide","description":"The Radical Progressive University Guide sets out to quantify the extent of ‘radical progressive’  policies at British Universities, including their curbs on free speech. Dr Richard Norrie (director of the statistics and policy research programme) uses evidence from  media reports and university websites to compile a new ‘radical progressive’ league table of Britain’s 140 universities based on a series of measures such as declared use of ‘trigger warnings’, the  promotion of controversial concepts, such as ‘white privilege’, and requiring students to  demonstrate they are ‘anti-racist’. These controversial concepts often have their roots in ‘Marxist’  ideology, according to Norrie. The ‘Radical Progressive University Guide’ found that:  87 out of 140\tuniversities had references to trigger warnings, or content warnings, or  ‘content notes’ –\t62 per cent.  79 out of 140\tuniversities had mentions of ‘white privilege’ in guidance offered to staff and  students or on their websites –\t56 per cent.  82 out of 140 universities\toffered materials, training or resources on ‘anti-racism’ on their  websites –\t59 per cent.​ Norrie finds that high tariff universities are more likely to be near the top of this league table than  lower tariff institutions.  81 per cent of high tariff universities use trigger warnings, compared to just 46 per cent of  low tariff ones.  74 per cent of high tariff universities endorse the concept of white privilege, compared to 48 per cent of low tariff.  74 per cent of high tariff universities offer anti-racism training, compared to 41 per cent of  low tariff universities. Norrie criticises universities for ‘decrying colonialism’ while taking money from China, a country he  describes as ‘mired in modern colonial controversy and accusations of genocide’. He accuses  Britain’s top universities of a ‘new moralism that reeks of hypocrisy’. He concludes that ‘Universities have adopted, wholesale, a mutation and splicing of past radicalisms  that include Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, Freudianism, and Maoism, fomented largely  through public subsidies.’","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49598849810705,"sku":"GOR013059613","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912581396.jpg?v=1751124724"},{"product_id":"failing-quango-state-book-richard-norrie-9781912581443","title":"The failing quango state","description":"Dr Richard Norrie (Director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas) reviews the role of ‘Arms Length Bodies’ in this latest Civitas publication. £223.9 billion was spent by so-called arm’s length bodies (ALBs) in 2020, which employed 318,714 people. As a percentage of total government expenditure, that is 21 per cent. These are defined by their independence from ministers – and a strong degree of distance from electoral power.  Britain is governed by a vast network of ‘quangos’, an acronym standing for ‘quasi autonomous non-governmental organisations’. While this term has common currency, it is a misnomer in that these are very much part of governmental functions with the power to set rules, adjudicate, and impose services.  The Coalition Government promised a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ and some progress has been made. Norrie outlines how these bodies are both nominally accountable to parliament yet somehow escape serious repercussions when things go wrong.  The government does not have a good grasp on them, with no certainty as to how many even exist. The Cabinet Office keeps an official list, only some organisations are allowed to exist off-record. There will be many who simply think we should abolish large parts of government and those who would like to expand departments by bringing more of these ALBs into these departments – making them much less ‘arm’s length’ but directly accountable to ministers. Reforming the quango state will sit somewhere in the middle, argues Norrie, with a greater capacity for parliament to reduce expenditure and scrutinise the leadership and performance of these bodies, bringing them under democratic control.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50479532966161,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50479533228305,"sku":"GOR013162406","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912581442.jpg?v=1751282530"},{"product_id":"in-defence-of-british-openness-evidence-and-ideas-on-how-we-might-think-about-a-book-richard-norrie-9781912581283","title":"In Defence of British Openness: Evidence and ideas on how we might think about a multiracial country","description":"In this new study of multi-ethnic Britain, the author makes a case that ethnic minority individuals fare better here than in the familial countries of origin, with a confident minority middle-class. Comparing the prospects of black people in this country to other European countries also reveals a positive picture, despite real problems that exist.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51555228320017,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51555228451089,"sku":"GOR012548873","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912581280.jpg?v=1750769622"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-richard-norrie.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}