A pamphlet by British policymakers that all American policymakers should read. Serious and nuanced thinking about the political complications arising from tensions between individual freedoms and mutual obligations, and about the government’s role in m
Jamie Bartlett has a short piece in this month's Prospect magazine which looks at the suicide bomber videos of the men currently on trial for plotting to blow up Atlantic flights mid air. The suicide bomber video used to be a fairly well thought out and
Governments have largely withdrawn from management of the economy and from regulation of corporate behaviour. Instead, they try to manage society and to regulate personal behaviour. As Duncan O'Leary puts it in the introduction to a Demos report published
The thinktank Demos this week launched UK Confidential, a collection of essays about privacy. It's beyond huge, this issue - it spans every technological advance that's ever happened, every element of government, every cultural trend: so many things make
The annual report from the Serious Organised Crime Agency, published yesterday, is a mix of self-congratulation and spectacular underachievement. While the rhetoric from politicians has been to get tough on organised crime, the reality is more humbling: w
Like terrorism itself, fighting terrorism is a creature of fashion. The latest on the catwalk is ‘countering extremism'. It is yielding negligible dividends. In some respects it is even counter-productive. It proposes cures for the flimsy rationale for
The Government should create ‘Wikirecords’ - online, accessible medical records which patients can contribute to and comment on – according to a new report from think tank Demos.
Ben Bradshaw invokes the views of the public to justify extending GP access. Telling us what we want and providing it is the oldest trick in the book. When asked what we want, we of course say that we want to be able to see whoever, whenever. But governme
The conversation between GPs and patients is under enormous pressure, and must be rethought for a less deferential age in which patients have access to vast amounts of medical information, a report launched by Demos today will argue.
The era of “doctor knows best” is over, a new report argues, and the GP–patient relationship must now be geared towards greater patient involvement. The report – by thinktank Demos – argues that the GP–patient relationship must be “rethought for a less
Demos analysis reveals an extra 120,000 elderly people a year will receive no relief on their social care costs if the government forego Dilnot recommendations and adopt a £75k cap
New report shows how prepaid cards could offer financial inclusion to Britain’s 2 million unbanked and nurture a generation of savers.
Local authorities should use faith groups to deliver public services to achieve value for money, greater ‘social value’ and wider community benefits, argues a new report by Demos.
The Government’s attempts to curb the UK’s hazardous drinking culture would be more effective if they focused on encouraging better parenting, particularly among parents misusing alcohol, say experts at the think tank Demos.
Child nutrition advice should be displayed on supermarket shelves and online parenting forums to make it more accessible to parents, according to a Demos report.
Think-tank Demos has launched a pioneering new model for measuring poverty that could transform local social service provision and help thousands of families escape poverty.
Entrepreneurs are optimistic and determined but defy stereotypes about their motives, characteristics and attitudes, finds new research from Demos.
A new report by the think-tank Demos reveals the full extent of the hardship experienced across Scotland, estimating that 24,000 families face severe disadvantage.
New polling released by the think tank Demos shows the majority of people believe the government should start controlling how welfare recipients spend their money.
This press release introduces Richard Reeves' essay on Cleggism, A Liberal Inside.