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Last week’s Gorton and Denton by-election produced a result that commentators have rightly called seismic. The Greens won with 40.7% of the vote –their first ever by-election victory – while Reform came second with 28.7%. Labour, which held this seat...
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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 bi-weekly newsletter, Epistemic Security...
Rodney Brooks, one of the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers of the last 20 years, has recently written an article pointing out that popular expectations for the rate of progress in AI research are running far ahead of reality...
At the Conservative Party Conference last month, Demos hosted an event with the social housing provider Orbit regarding their role is helping their tenants with younger children tackle poverty, identify routes to employment, build social networks and resilience, and other...
When the technology we rely on makes mistakes, what should we do? It feels like a simple question with a simple answer: if the technology is wrong, it needs fixing, and then it will be right again. But this black-and-white...
Graham, who’s in his early 60s, has been unemployed now for over five years. Health problems brought a 15-year career as a traveling sales executive to a premature end, and since then he’s struggled to find paid work that can...
Last year, Beauty.AI held an online beauty contest, but with a twist: it was “judged by robots”. Beauty.AI was going to be scientific. Rather than using the judgements of fallible human judges, the beauty of the participants would be established...
Writing 20 years ago at Demos, Charles Leadbeater introduced to the mainstream the then-fringe idea of combining business and charitable aims to address social challenges. This included championing the potential for social entrepreneurship to solve modern welfare problems that the...
With Theresa May speaking at the UN this week, the subject of extremist use of the web is back in the headlines. This follows Tuesday’s Policy Exchange publication ‘The New Netwar’, which presents an analysis of the way the Sunni...
Politics has always been an arena for disagreement and heated arguments, and this sometimes results in insults directed at elected officials – but over the last couple of years this has become magnified following the advent of social media. Indeed,...
If there was ever any doubt, the recent publication of statistics by the Gambling Commission reaffirmed the extent to which gambling, in one way or another, is woven into the fabric of British society. Six in ten of us have...
