Like-minded? Mapping cross-party conversations on Twitter during the general election
General election campaigns are a fertile time for social media research. In the run-up to election day, online platforms become…
Posted by Events on May 19th, 2017Game changing reforms but a missed opportunity
Social care currently has a means and a needs test – in other words, you have to be both really poor, and…
Posted by Events on May 18th, 2017The Missing Election Debate
In an election called to shore up a Brexit negotiating position – with an added bonus of decimating the Opposition at the…
Posted by Events on April 20th, 2017Building character in 140 characters
On February 25th 2017, Lily Allen posted a poll to her Twitter followers, asking who they felt more marginalised by, pensioners or…
Posted by Events on April 13th, 2017The Health of Networks
Much of what we know about mental health comes from a clinical setting. When health commissioners, policy-makers and practitioners make…
Posted by Events on April 13th, 2017Life Goes on After Brexit
It may have been swept under the carpet in the midst of the latest Brexit conjecture and the worrying developments in Syria,…
Posted by Events on April 11th, 2017The “Roy Hodgson” Problem
Brash, globalised, unequal and deeply indebted, the Premier League has often seemed a relevant metaphor for Britain’s economic model. And when…
Posted by Events on April 3rd, 2017Making the Most of Brexit: Opportunities and Risks
The triggering of Article 50 this week will finally kick-off the formal process of Brexit. In two years’ time, unless the 27…
Posted by Events on March 28th, 2017Mediating Populism
In the immediate aftermath of the American Presidential Election, there was some rather brutal soul-searching about the role that the mainstream…
Posted by Events on January 27th, 2017What would a truly shared society mean for care leavers?
In her recent speech on the shared society, May articulated a cautiously optimistic world view. According to May, the UK is “a…
Posted by Events on January 20th, 2017Industrial strategy and the challenge of inclusive growth
One of the many odd features of our post-Brexit political landscape is that amongst all the shouting, rancour, and court cases, there…
Posted by Events on December 9th, 2016The Clock is Ticking for Europe
Last week, Demos brought together around 30 leading thinkers on Europe’s social, economic and cultural condition in Brussels, for the second in…
Posted by Events on November 22nd, 2016‘Infosmog’ and the challenge of misinformation
Hillary Clinton’s well documented ties to satanic rituals are back in the headlines. Alarming footage of democrats stuffing ballot boxes is being…
Posted by Events on November 8th, 2016Personalisation can’t be a tool to cut welfare costs
Monday’s Work Health and Disability Green Paper is one of a dwindling breed – all papers come out White these days. Green…
Posted by Events on November 2nd, 2016Are “corporate parents” the answer to a lack of clarity in the care system?
The plight of children in care is an issue of immense public and political concern. In her keynote speech at party conference…
Posted by Events on October 24th, 2016A honeycomb of echo chambers? Twitter’s response to the Munich attack
On the 22nd July an 18-year old man armed with a semi-automatic pistol shot and killed…
Posted by Events on October 19th, 2016Democracy’s Twilight Hour
Nowhere has the anti-establishment rhetoric of the populist forces sweeping across Europe and the United States been more succinctly distilled, or with…
Posted by Events on September 19th, 2016Passing the buck? Why censorship isn’t sufficient to tackle extremism
This morning, the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee released a report, entitled “Radicalisation: the counter-narrative and identifying the tipping…
Posted by Events on August 26th, 2016Measuring Islamophobia on Twitter
Yesterday we released new research measuring the scale and scope of Islamophobia (keep reading… we’ll return to that) on Twitter. It…
Posted by Events on August 19th, 2016Honest Speaking in the Post-Truth Politics Age
We live in complicated, global times, and times of complicated, global policy-making. The interconnectedness of our societies and economies has driven tremendous…
Posted by Events on August 9th, 2016