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In this blog, Billy Huband-Thompson and Jamie Hancock reflect on findings from our latest report in partnership with Insight Infrastructure at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Wave 2 2025 reveals the challenges those living in financial hardship face in the context...
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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...
A few weeks ago, I attended a rather hastily convened roundtable at the European Council for Foreign Relations, to mark the release of another round of Jim McGarry’s global think tank index. Whatever one feels about the value of such...
In light of substantial cuts to Esol funding over the last five years, David Cameron’s commitment yesterday to providing an additional £20 million fund for Esol is welcome. It shows an understanding of the vital role language must play in...
This week saw the launch of the Commission on Inequality in Education, with a speech given by its Chair Nick Clegg at Portcullis House. It has never been more important that these issues are explored in government and civil society. ...
In the public outpouring of (genuine) grief upon the loss of David Bowie yesterday, you could be excused for missing an interesting intervention by another David, the Prime Minister, heralding what appeared to be the return of the ‘social strategy’....
While the commentariat has been focused on the strife wracking the Labour Party, the government have been quietly completing the second phase of their vast UK-wide effort to decentralise governance in the UK. On the back of the major devolution...
It’s become a truism that digital revolution is changing politics: and it is, of course. But few research groups have tried to measure exactly how. Yesterday, we launched some brand new research into how European citizens and MEPs are using Twitter,...
On any measure it has been a big political year, from David Cameron’s surprise majority to Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable insurgency. But what were the big ideas? Pre-distribution. Ed Miliband was mocked for using the term in 2012 but it always...
As Europe comes to grips with the horror of the Paris attacks, one group, more than any other, is exposed the brunt of the continent’s anguish – the refugees gathering precariously on its doorstep. With rumours swirling that one of...
On the question of multiculturalism and integration – despite some superficial differences – I think both the Labour and Conservative parties have a reasonably similar position. We welcome and want people to celebrate their own cultures, background, religions, but not...
