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MPs’ offices are stuck in fire-fighting mode, unable to cope with the volume of urgent requests from constituents due to outdated technology, limited organisational support and restrictive procurement rules, according to new research from the cross-party think tank Demos. The...
Read the first report from this programme of work, Epistemic Security 2029: Fortifying the UK’s information supply chain to tackle the democratic emergency. 2024 was dubbed the “year of democracy”, a super election year in which, by some counts, half the...
Through the long leadership election for the new Conservative party leader I’ve noticed a recurring theme: the accusation that voters want unrealistic or simplistic solutions to problems so big that they couldn’t possibly understand. They want to have their cake...
Our national resilience is being tested on arguably the largest scale since the Second World War. There’s much to celebrate, with communities across the country coming together to support their most vulnerable members. Yet when this is over, what lessons...
British politics has always had a complicated relationship with experts. Different governments have defined and redefined expert roles in their administrations, with arguments for and against technocratic policymaking filling the halls of Westminster at times of change, challenge and crisis....
It may have been swept under the carpet in the midst of the latest Brexit conjecture and the worrying developments in Syria, but quietly this week, some major changes to our welfare system came into force. And by changes, I...
In the immediate aftermath of the American Presidential Election, there was some rather brutal soul-searching about the role that the mainstream media had played in supporting Trump’s victory. The same questions were asked when the BBC took the decision to...
Last week, Demos brought together around 30 leading thinkers on Europe’s social, economic and cultural condition in Brussels, for the second in a series of policy workshops we have been hosting as part of our project – Nothing to Fear...
On 15 June, in what felt at times like the dying days of empire, Demos brought together 20 leading experts on European politics, social and economic policy for a workshop in Brussels, to debate an emergent culture of ‘fear’ across...
