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July 2022

The Costs of Creation: What is a Fair and Desirable Future for Monetised Online Work and Volunteering?

Ciaran Cummins
July 2022

Movers and Stayers: Localising power to level up towns

Courtney Stephenson
July 2022
The OSB’s future is now uncertain – but not for good reasons

The news broke on Wednesday that due to motion being tabled on a vote of no confidence, that the planned Third Reading ...

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July 2022
How do we protect democratic speech online?

Government regulation and political speech online are uneasy companions – discussion around how to regulate the online world frequently comes up against  ...

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July 2022

Voting online: How would the Online Safety Bill affect harms arising from political discourse?

Ellen Judson
July 2022

Settling in: An assessment of Operation New Hope’s support for Afghans who worked with the British Armed Forces

June 2022
CASM: How do we change the future of tech?

This is a time of existential change, and technology has a role in it all. Climate change is accelerating, while blockchain technologies ...

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June 2022

Strengthening privacy in the Online Safety Bill

Ellen Judson
May 2022

The Open Road: How To Build a Sustainable Open Infrastructure System

Alex Krasodomski-Jones
Ellen Judson
Victoria Baines
June 2022
Gambling is not just a “man’s problem”

With gambling, as in all areas, we cannot just apply what we know about men and assume it to be universal. This ...

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June 2022
Safer by Design: How can collaboration help design safer gambling?

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May 2022

Move on Upstream: Crime, prevention and relationships

Alice Dawson
May 2022

The Good Web Project

Alex Krasodomski-Jones
May 2022
The Good Web Project

All too frequently, liberal societies struggle to articulate what a good Internet would look like. Some of it is hubris, a hangover ...

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May 2022
“Does it count if I’m hurt in the metaverse?”: Living with Immersive Harm

With the publication of the Online Safety Bill, it has been a landmark few weeks for platform regulation. What is stated in ...

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May 2022
Exemptions, exceptions and exclusions: Why the Online Safety Bill protects disinformation and abuse over freedom of speech and journalism

The UK’s Online Safety Bill has been lauded by the government as “world-leading,” with claims that it will make the UK the ...

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May 2022
Introducing Combined Choice

Today, we’re launching a new co-design tool called Combined Choice. This is part of Demos’ work to build a different kind of ...

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May 2022

Myths and Misinformation: Mapping the barriers to smoking cessation and the uptake of nicotine alternatives

Alice Dawson
May 2022

Working Together: The case for universal employment support

Andrew Phillips
April 2022

Post-Pandemic People Power

Ciaran Cummins
April 2022
Shadow profits in the data economy: unravelling the harms caused by ‘data brokers’

‘Data’ is everywhere. A day doesn’t go by without a news story of how it is changing our lives: new businesses, new ...

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April 2022
How Ireland is using remote working to level up

A country with high regional inequalities, and an economy dominated by one large metropolitan area – the UK, you might think. But ...

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April 2022

The Online Safety Bill: Demos Position Paper

Ellen Judson
March 2022
Mogg’s Missed Opportunity: It’s time the Government took public participation seriously

Announcing his new role as Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency to The Sun’s readers last month, Jacob Rees-Mogg declared that, ...

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March 2022

Regulating the Future of Vaping

Polly Mackenzie
March 2022
System change for system changes’ sake

The publication of the Online Safety Bill, after years of debate and scrutiny and consultation, is imminent. By way of teasers, we’ve ...

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March 2022

Joint Submission to the Human Rights Act Reform consultation

Ellen Judson
February 2022

The Double Whammy: Mapping the UK’s personal debt

Harry Carr
Amelia Stewart
February 2022

The Bottom Line: An investigation of rent arrears in social housing

Ben Glover
February 2022

‘Divide and level up’ won’t transform Britain:
Demos response to the Levelling Up White Paper

February 2022

Locating Authority: A vision for relational local government

Ciaran Cummins
January 2022
Why online anonymity is vital in a healthy democratic society

We’ve come a long way in a year. The twelve month debate on whether anonymity online is helping or hindering democratic life ...

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January 2022
Respect isn’t nonsense – it could be Starmer’s big idea

In a speech aiming to kick off a “big year”, Keir Starmer this week put respect at the heart of his political ...

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January 2022
Starting with the why

This morning Keir Starmer chose to frame his offer to the voters under the banners of Security, Prosperity and Respect. He called ...

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December 2021

Demos 2021: End of Year Report

Polly Mackenzie
December 2021
The success of the Online Safety Bill will depend on the government’s ability to admit it could go wrong

‘If it’s illegal offline, it should be illegal online.’ This is the rallying cry around which the debate on digital regulation in ...

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December 2021
How to unite the ‘levelling up’ tribes

Drawing on recent research published by Demos, Ben Glover and Andrew Phillips discuss how attitudes to levelling up differ across the country ...

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December 2021

Inside Jobs: The experience of low-paid homeworkers in Britain today

Andrew Phillips
Rose Lasko-Skinner
December 2021

Making Democracy Work – complete series

Polly Mackenzie
December 2021

The Gravitational State

Polly Mackenzie
November 2021

The Humble Policy Maker

Polly Mackenzie
November 2021

Living in the Exponential Age

Polly Mackenzie
October 2021
Consensus at home is just as important as consensus abroad to meet our climate targets

By Charles Seaford With COP26 about to commence, the Government is on a mission to try and build consensus internationally in order ...

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October 2021

All Ears: Putting the public at the heart of levelling up

Ben Glover
Andrew Phillips
October 2021
How do we fight back against online abuse when counterspeech can’t keep up?

Over the last few years, solutions to the problem of online abuse have been proposed and attempted – from pleading with platforms ...

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October 2021

Silence, Woman: An investigation into gendered attacks online

Ellen Judson
Amelia Stewart
Josh Smith
Alex Krasodomski-Jones
October 2021

Making Democracy Work

Polly Mackenzie
October 2021

Bouncing Back: Boosting young people’s financial wellbeing after the pandemic

Ben Glover
Ciaran Cummins
October 2021

The Climate Consensus: The public’s views on how to cut emissions

Andrew Phillips
Charles Seaford
September 2021

Delivering Levelling-Up: Don’t turn on the taps without fixing the pipes

Charles Seaford
September 2021
Gendered disinformation: The US can’t be content with content solutions

In regulating online spaces, if we treat the problems of harmful content as separate from the problems of harmful systems, we risk ...

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September 2021

A Room of One’s Own: Workshop:
When is an internet user safe in a private space online?

Ellen Judson
August 2021

The Good Credit Index 2021

Heather Williams
August 2021

The Power of Food: Community experiences of tackling food insecurity

Maiyoraa Jayabraba
July 2021

The Social State: From Transactional to Relational Public Services

Polly Mackenzie
July 2021

Time for Change: Abolish business rates and introduce a Landlord Levy

Ben Glover
James Sweetland
Charles Seaford
June 2021
The Online Safety Bill: Will it protect women online?

‘The safest place in the world to go online’. This is the ambition for the UK, set out by the Government in ...

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June 2021

Distanced Revolution: Employee experiences of working from home during the pandemic

Maiyoraa Jayabraba
June 2021
The democratic argument for tax simplification

Tax simplification: unlikely to get you out of bed in the morning. If it does, you’re probably concerned about the business burdens ...

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June 2021

The Internet and End of Life

Ciaran Cummins
May 2021
Trusting the Data: How do we reach a public settlement on the future of tech?

What role do we want technology to play in our lives? In popular debate, this question divides into two polar extremes: those ...

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May 2021

Race to the Top: A new corporate tax deal for the UK

Ben Glover
May 2021

Communities of humanitarian thought: The case for change in a time of crisis

April 2021

Everyday Places: Creating strong locations to support daily life in Britain:
Creating strong locations to support daily life in Britain

Kitty Ussher
March 2021

Post Pandemic Places:
From Renew Normal: the People's Commission on Life After Covid-19

Kitty Ussher
March 2021

States, Corporations, Individuals and Machines

Alex Krasodomski-Jones
March 2021

Good Foundations: Why democracies should care about the wiring of the Internet

Alex Krasodomski-Jones
March 2021

A Picture of Health: Measuring the comparative health of online spaces

Alex Krasodomski-Jones
March 2021

Food in a Pandemic:
From Renew Normal: the People's Commission on Life After COVID-19

James Sweetland
March 2021

Build Back Stronger:
The final report of Renew Normal: The People's Commission on Life After COVID-19

Polly Mackenzie
March 2021

The Nowhere Office:
The first report from the Workshift Commission

February 2021

The Care Commitment: A new model of social care for England

February 2021

Potential Limited: The economic cost of uncontrolled asthma

Ben Glover
January 2021

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the charitable sector

Claudia Wood
January 2021
The regulation paradox

Last week, the world looked on in horror as a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, leading the people inside to ...

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January 2021
How can tax help to fight the climate crisis?

By Charles Seaford, Senior Fellow The Prime Minister recently announced a new target for UK greenhouse gas emissions reductions by 2030 – ...

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December 2020

Demos 2020: End of Year Report

Polly Mackenzie
December 2020

The Future of Towns

Ben Glover
December 2020

Rebooting Britain

Polly Mackenzie
November 2020

Patient Power: Unleashing choice over routine medications

Joe Oakes
Polly Curtis
Jon Nash
November 2020

The Great Cyber Surrender: How police and governments abandon cybercrime victims

Asli Atay
November 2020

Combined Choice: A modern method of democratic decision making

Jon Nash
November 2020

Achieving Levelling-Up: The Structures and Processes Needed

Ben Glover
November 2020
How will communities mobilise to build back a better Britain?

Community spirit has been a welcome silver lining as we’ve seen the increasing role neighbours have played in supporting their local communities ...

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November 2020
Consensus coming just-in-time: Economic resilience in the age of Covid-19

With Britain so plugged in to the global economy, the pandemic has raised questions about our ability to provide for ourselves. Fears ...

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October 2020

Everything in Moderation: Platforms, communities and users in a healthy online environment

Alex Krasodomski-Jones
October 2020

Engendering Hate: The contours of state-aligned gendered disinformation online

Alex Krasodomski-Jones
October 2020
Online harms: A snapshot of public opinion

“It’s a very strange state of affairs online…” – Participant in our men’s focus group What happens over the next few months ...

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October 2020

A Room of One’s Own: A guide to private spaces online

Ellen Judson
October 2020

The Workshift Commission

September 2020

A People’s Budget: How the public would raise taxes

Ben Glover
Charles Seaford
September 2020

Research 4.0: Research in the age of automation

Ben Glover
September 2020

What Next? Priorities for Britain

Asli Atay
August 2020

Britain under Lockdown

Heather Rolfe
August 2020

Turning the Tables: Making healthy choices easier for consumers

Rose Lasko-Skinner
August 2020

Polis and the Political Process

Harry Carr
July 2020

The Good Credit Index 2020

Asli Atay
July 2020
Rachel’s Story: Close to Home

“Covid strips everything back.” For Rachel, lockdown has given her the time and space to think through what matters to her. Not ...

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June 2020
We can’t let the economic inequalities intensified by lockdown tear apart our social fabric

The economic impact of lockdown is by no means going to be felt the same by anyone. We have to build an ...

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June 2020

Renew Normal: The Podcast

June 2020
In order to understand this pandemic, we need to throw out the research rulebook

It’s impossible to avoid the fact that this pandemic has been an intensely personal experience. All of us have seen our lives ...

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May 2020
There’s no going back to normal. Join our national conversation about the future.

Simon is in his fifties. He is in constant pain and has been for years. He can walk, but only a few ...

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May 2020
How not to do platform regulation

‘! Get the facts about mail-in ballots’. This week Twitter added a fact-check label to one of Donald Trump’s tweets, which incorrectly ...

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April 2020

What’s in a name? A forward view of anonymity online

Josh Smith
Elliot Jones
Ellen Judson
March 2020
Demos under lockdown

Squashed in the box room, trying to ignore the shouts of children outside. Huddled over a makeshift workstation in the kitchen while ...

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March 2020
Our priorities for the Budget

As the Government prepares for its first Budget this week, senior researcher Ben Glover sets out our priorities for the Chancellor, from ...

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February 2020
How the internet could transform the labour market for the better

Online learning has become so much a part of everyday life we barely know we’re doing it. But taking something for granted ...

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February 2020

The Learning Curve: How the UK is harnessing the potential of online learning

Ben Glover
Rose Lasko-Skinner
Kitty Ussher
Harry Carr
Asli Atay
Elliot Jones
January 2020

The Emperor Has No Clothes: A proposal to bolster the authority of Select Committees:
A pamphlet from the Rt. Hon. Lord Andrew Tyrie

Lord Tyrie
January 2020

Cancer Costs: A ripple effect analysis of cancer’s wider impact

Sacha Hilhorst
December 2019
2019 End of Year Video Look Back

For Demos, 2019 was a year of growth, impact and innovation. Demos Senior Management Team takes a look back on 2019, and ...

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December 2019

Over the Character Limit

Josh Smith
Agnès Chauvet
Elliot Jones
Ava Berry
December 2019

The Outrage Election: A CASM investigation conducted with BBC Click

Josh Smith
December 2019

Beyond the Bubble: The online conversation on research and development

Elliot Jones
Josh Smith
Ellen Judson
20 Nov 2019

Freelancers should be paid higher minimum wage, says think tank

Contractors and other flexible workers should enjoy a higher minimum wage than those with secure employment, according to new Demos report The Liquidity Trap.

November 2019

The Liquidity Trap: Financial experience and inclusion in the liquid workforce

Ben Glover
Rose Lasko-Skinner
Ava Berry
November 2019

Bringing Britain Together: A manifesto for consensus politics

Polly Mackenzie
Tessa van Rens
Ben Glover
November 2019
Can the new immigration policy improve ESOL education for refugees and asylum seekers

English language provision opens doors to new migrants and should be properly resourced  Integration is never far from the headlines and often ...

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November 2019

Emerging divisions on trade after Brexit:
A paper in partnership with Demos

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