Welcome to the Social Affairs Unit web site The Social Affairs Unit addresses social, economic and cultural issues with an emphasis on the value of personal responsibility. We research, challenge and debate issues from welfare to warfare, always seeking to draw out the role of the individual's obligations. We identify research with a potential to inform public policy and translate it from academic discourse into public debate. The ideas it promotes come largely from historians, sociologists and philosophers but also medical doctors and hard scientists. Analysis, commentary and reviews by the Social Affairs Unit's authors are found on our constantly updated or, sorted by topic, at . This website also enables visitors to purchase our . A selection of these, along with our digital-only reports, are available to . Recent SAU articles Theodore Dalrymple Lincoln Allison David Womersley Christie Davies David Wootton David Wootton David Wootton Brendan Simms Theodore Dalrymple Richard D. North Recent publications Recent digital publications “The Social Affairs Unit is famous for driving its coach and horses through the liberal consensus scattering intellectual picket lines as it goes [and] for raising questions which strike most people most of the time as too dangerous or too difficult to think about.” (The Times) Director: Michael Mosbacher Trustees: Dr Simon Green William Norton Frank Sharratt Charity no 281530 T...
