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While the Brexit clock is ticking for the UK, all across Europe the clocks will go back an hour this weekend. But if EU proposals go ahead, the twice-yearly clock changes will stop in March 2021. Informed by an EU-wide...
Government reports rarely become bestsellers. But large queues formed on the night before the publication of William Beveridge’s 300-page survey of social insurance. His report shaped the post-war consensus and laid the foundations for our modern welfare system. It invoked...
Everyone knows social care desperately needs to change but there is little agreement of how. It comes as no surprise then that the Government’s Green Paper on the matter is several months late. Could informal carers, so neglected in today’s...
Last month saw the publication of the Government’s first loneliness strategy, following the appointment of Tracey Crouch as the world’s first ever minister for loneliness. The Government is right to be concerned. New figures from Demos published last week make...
Much thought is being invested in the question of how the UK can improve its industrial strategy, and how we train young people to design and make things. Many people agree this is essential for a resilient economy and reinstating...
Demos has a long-standing interest in the social and financial impact of disability and health conditions. People living with serious health conditions can face a significant financial burden, a large part of which is the extra costs resulting from looking...
According to some, the long-running rhetorical battle between nationalism and patriotism has been decided: patriotism has won. Macron’s presidential victory over Le Pen, if you believe various pre-emptive European commentators, has struck a fatal blow against calls of nationalism in...
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...
While the social, political, economic and geopolitical consequences of a vote to leave the EU continue to spin their way out, the vote itself provides a window into just how divided British society is. Since the early hours of Friday...
