Social Affairs Unit

Social Affairs Unit

Abbreviation	SAU
Formation	1980 (1980)
Type	Social policy think tank
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Director	Michael Mosbacher (2004 - 2019)
Website	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk

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The Social Affairs Unit was a right-leaning think tank in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1980 as an offshoot of the Institute of Economic Affairs, it published books on a variety of social issues. Its website notes that "many SAU supporters are inclined to believe that the generation which fought the Second World War were rather too keen on social engineering over the goals of personal responsibility".

The Unit published Standpoint (2008 - 2021), a monthly cultural and political newsstand magazine edited by Daniel Johnson (2008 - 2018), Michael Mosbacher (2018 - 2019), Edward Lucas (2019 - 2020) and Andreas Campomar (2020 - 2021).