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Pickthall House provides policy research centred around strategies for building robustness and resilience in a changing global order. Our work focuses on the need to:

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Christmas Attack

Pickthall House condemns misinformation and calls for genuine, fair dialogue as the foundation of a healthy society. The recent attack at Magdeburg’s Christmas market, which left five dead and over two hundred injured, has sparked troubling accusations against the perpetrator, Taleb al-Abdulmohsen. Critics have claimed...

Against First-Cousin Marriage

Pickthall House supports the proposal to ban cousin marriage. Conservative MP Richard Holden has introduced a bill to ban first-cousin marriages in the UK, citing health risks and the practice’s compatibility with British culture.  Pickthall believes that there is a compelling public health case for...

A Statement on the New Government in Syria

The collapse of the repressive Assad regime has come as a relief to many Syrians and global observers, and all the more so because this appears to have taken place with much less violence than we might have imagined. Pickthall House commends the UK government...

On Blasphemy laws and Free Speech

Pickthall House firmly believes that calls for special legal protections against the desecration of religious texts or insults to religion, such as those made by Labour MP Tahir Ali, are detrimental to intercommunal relations. While these measures may be intended to protect religious sensitivities, we...
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A Portrait of Muslim Britain

In modern Britain it is clear that many hold fears surrounding the integration of Muslims into predominantly non-Muslim society. Perspectives vary greatly on the extent to which Muslims as a minority in Britain represent a departure from the general societal norm, and the degree to...

At the Tropical Crossroads

The Brexit vote was largely predicated on the re-establishment of national sovereignty. How much has Britain accomplished in the 3 years since leaving the EU? It may well be that we need to look further afield.The cornerstone of good strategy is a clear sense of...

Britain and the Arab-Israel Conflict

Britain was a crucial partner in the establishment of the State of Israel. Since then, it has pursued a foreign policy in the Middle East that positions Israel as an important strategic ally. In this paper, Pickthall House argues that Britain's recent substantive support for...