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
March 2021 The Future of Social Care: What Role Should Technology Play?Demos recently published The Care Commitment, a report written by Danny Kruger MP. In this...
January 2021 From Twitter’s misinformation bird hide, we risk not seeing the forest for the treesMany months of being at home, and the popularity of birdwatching has “soared”. Soon, however,...
January 2021 The regulation paradoxLast week, the world looked on in horror as a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, leading the people...
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...
November 2020 Online harms: we need to bring the public into public policyA guest blog from Maeve Walsh, Associate at Carnegie UK Trust
November 2020 Where can we build consensus on the future of the web?During the Covid-19 pandemic, for many people, computer screens have become a crucial connection to the outside world, and online...
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...
November 2020 Consensus coming just-in-time: Economic resilience in the age of Covid-19With Britain so plugged in to the global economy, the pandemic has raised questions about our ability to provide for...
November 2020 ‘Frankly, we did win this election’: on social media, who will watch the watchmen?Election Day in the US saw a predictable surge in false, misleading or harmful narratives emerging, from robocalls telling voters...
October 2020 What do people think about fake news and misinformation, in the age of Covid-19?As part of our Renew Normal project, Demos is conducting a series of engagement exercises via Polis, an online deliberative...
