January 2022 Why online anonymity is vital in a healthy democratic societyWe’ve come a long way in a year. The twelve month debate on whether anonymity online is helping or hindering...
January 2022 Respect isn’t nonsense – it could be Starmer’s big ideaIn a speech aiming to kick off a “big year”, Keir Starmer this week put respect at the heart of...
January 2022 Starting with the whyThis morning Keir Starmer chose to frame his offer to the voters under the banners of Security, Prosperity and Respect....
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...
December 2021 How to unite the ‘levelling up’ tribesDrawing on recent research published by Demos, Ben Glover and Andrew Phillips discuss how attitudes...
November 2021 Is anonymity the best target in the fight against the trolls?“Rest assured, this Bill will end anonymous abuse, because it will end abuse, full stop.” We will ‘
October 2021 Consensus at home is just as important as consensus abroad to meet our climate targetsBy Charles Seaford With COP26 about to commence, the Government is on a mission to try and build consensus internationally...
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...
October 2021 The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities must not overlook the role of local government in levelling upThe Ministry for Local Government is no longer. The recently renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has sent...
September 2021 Gendered disinformation: The US can’t be content with content solutionsIn regulating online spaces, if we treat the problems of harmful content as separate from the problems of harmful systems,...
July 2021 Gendered disinformation: 6 reasons why liberal democracies need to respond to this threatGendered disinformation is a form of identity-based disinformation that threatens human rights worldwide. It undermines the digital and political rights, as well...
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...
June 2021 The democratic argument for tax simplificationTax simplification: unlikely to get you out of bed in the morning. If it does, you’re probably concerned about the...
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...
May 2021 Bursting the democratic ‘bubble’After two years, the UK Government has finally put forward a draft bill on Online Safety
