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Demos Daily: The Entrepreneurial State

When this crisis is over, we will find our economy transformed. There will be a huge task ahead to recharge it, and potentially...

Demos Daily: The Learning Curve

During lockdown, many people are using this time to set themselves new goals. Whether it’s furloughed workers up-skilling to improve their employability,...

Algorithm Inspection and Regulatory Access

Demos has joined four other civil society groups in calling for greater transparency and oversight of algorithms being used by social media...

Demos Daily: The Freedom of the City

Cities have been a central part of many of our livelihoods for years. But with higher living costs, the current lockdown could...

Demos Daily: The Power of Prepaid

Fintech has started to revolutionise the way we manage our money: companies such as Monzo and Revolut have transformed personal banking, and to...

Demos Daily: The Carers’ Covenant

Britain has a new ritual: at 8pm every Thursday we gather at our front doors, windows...

Demos Daily: Network wonderland

In 1994, just 3 years after the World Wide Web was first made available to the public, Rael A Fenchurch took a glimpse...

Demos Daily: Slow down – the return to local food

Cooking has been a great form of escapism for many people since lockdown begun – whether we’re getting our aprons on for...

Demos Daily: A Place for Pride

For years now, patriotism has been a political football: a dirty word akin to nationalism to some, and a rousing exercise in...

Demos Daily: Born Creative

With the BBC announcing one of their largest education packages to date, well-known figures such as Danny Dyer, Sir David Attenborough and...

Demos Daily: Democracy in the digital age

From electronic voting to reform of select committees, modernising the functions of Parliament have long been called for by many. Yet when...

Demos Daily: Finding time to live

For those tackling the coronavirus on the front line, these past weeks and months will have been the most physically and emotionally...

Demos Daily: The Commission on Residential Care

The social care crisis has been one of the greatest challenges of our generation. Successive Governments have come close to coming up...

Demos Daily: Tantrums and Tiaras

Once this is over, it’s not immediately obvious how we’ll look back on this time. There will be grief, certainly, for those...

Demos Daily: The other invisible hand

Yesterday the Government announced a £750m package to support charities stay afloat during the coronavirus crisis – a move which has been welcomed as...