Editors' Choice 2024

User icon Toby Green
21 February 2024
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Every week, Gary Price and I choose new and noteworthy reports for Policy Matters, a newsletter that goes out to our growing community of registered users. Here are reports we've chosen so far in 2024.


5 June 2024 English

An inforgraphic showing the number of complaints about noise, by category, location, parliamentary constituency, and local authority.


CEP: Centre for Economic Performance · 17 June 2024 English

This briefing summarises the evidence about how leaving the European Union (EU) has affected UK trade. Overall, Brexit has had a negative effect on UK trade. But, so far, this …


Feedback · 18 March 2024 English

This report maps the global financial flows to the world’s largest 55 industrial livestock companies – spanning the beef, dairy, pork, poultry, and animal feed sectors – as an update …


FPF: Future of Privacy Forum · 16 October 2024 English

The report provides a comprehensive overview of synthetic content, focusing on AI-generated media that is often indistinguishable from human-created content. The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) tools has made it …


CCP: Climate and Community Project · 15 May 2024 English

This report sets out to answer the question of why governments in the Global South have routinely failed to achieve biodiversity goals and targets. Rather than focus on the usual …


DEFRA: Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs · 15 January 2024 English

This report presents the findings of a comprehensive two-year evaluation of the Green Social Prescribing (GSP) project, which aimed to improve mental health outcomes through nature-based activities across England. Conducted …


SMF: Social Market Foundation · 27 August 2024 English

This report, supported by Santander and Teneo, investigates the prevalence, impact, and global interconnectedness of consumer fraud. It draws upon data from over 28,000 survey participants across 15 countries, examining …


EUROPOL: European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation · 10 June 2024 English

The first report on encryption created by the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security presents an analysis on the topic of encryption from a legislative, technical and developmental viewpoint. It …


BGI: Berggruen Governance Index · 16 July 2024 English

This report evaluates the governance performance of the United Kingdom ahead of the 2024 election, focusing on the interplay between fiscal austerity, economic stagnation, and public scandal. Despite a high …


Constitution Unit · 21 March 2024 English

This report comes at an important juncture, when public trust in politicians has fallen to an all time low. There is a wealth of evidence from survey data about the …