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We need to make sure that we reach the people that have the power to tackle the root causes of poverty and really help people that are struggling with the issues we care about. We have been proudly working in...
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The Epistemic Security Network is a new network hosted by Demos. It provides a home for collective efforts to protect democracy by cleaning up and fortifying our information supply chains. As part of the network we share a weekly newsletter, Epistemic Security...
Since the EU Referendum, Boris Johnson has ramped up the rhetoric about ‘Global Britain’, a country that is “more open, more outward-looking, more engaged with the world than ever before.” In this view, the referendum result is a vote for...
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...
Shelter for rough sleepers. Discussion groups for transgender teenagers. Coffee mornings to combat loneliness among the elderly. These are but some of the many social action projects happening in churches across the country. Over the past decade, we have seen a...
The betting ecosystem on Twitter is vast, diverse and highly active but despite the highly public nature of Twitter, much of this occurs under cover of darkness. Demos and the School of Management at the University of Bristol’s new report,...
The way we consume content has changed almost beyond recognition in the digital age. Vast swathes of the published written word are now viewed on screens that have come to dominate if not our lives then certainly the way we...
Last week the government published its long-awaited White Paper on Online Harms, proposing that an independent regulator be established to ensure that digital technology companies uphold a duty of care to their users and tackle harmful content on their platforms....
This week, the Office for National Statistics released their first statistics on which occupations they believe are at the highest risk of automation across England. They estimate about 7.4% of all jobs are at high risk of automation, i.e. there...
https://demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Thirty-years-of-the-WWW.mp4 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, and at Demos, we’re celebrating because our research on the web has been at the cutting edge right from the beginning. In the video, our CASM Senior researcher Josh...
By Daniel Alphonsus “Ripping apart the social fabric” and “destroying how society works”. These apocalyptic portrayals of social media were once the dirge of neo-luddites. Today they are the words of Chamath Palihapitiya, a Silicon Valley titan and one of...
