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Must the government choose between a broken promise and a broken economy, or is there another way? As the Budget countdown continues (just 34 days now), that’s the question everyone’s asking. Facing the fiscal hole, the Chancellor has begun rewriting...
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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...
This years’ Queen’s Speech included the announcement of a Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill. Last years’ Speech contained the announcement of an Extremism Bill. The differences between the two are slight, meaning this year’s iteration is largely a rebranding of the...
The question of how best to stem the flow of young British Muslims travelling to join Islamic State is often met with a singular answer: establish a counter-narrative. At times, this becomes a call to reaffirm liberalism in its broadest...
The rise of the digital world is changing how people participate in political debate and activism. It can draw people closer to politics, help to inform the debate, and present new avenues for politicians, journalists and citizens to talk to...
Within a few minutes of Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary, the presiding general consensus seemed to be that his exit was more of a Brexit, and his alleged motivation for leaving – concern regarding the scale...
In 1991, Rodney King, a young black man, was brutally beaten by LA police following a high speed car chase, and the video capturing the beating notoriously failed to prevent the acquittal of the officers involved. Fast forward 25 years,...
On Sunday, the Observer published statistics which suggested over 85 per cent of the calls to the Government’s benefits fraud hotline between 2010 and 2015 had no case to answer. At around 890,000 false allegations, that’s nearly 500 per day,...
Over the past 60 years, national elections have become a topic of keen interest for political scientists all over the world. This isn’t surprising, of course: voting, after all, represents the central act of the democratic process. And central to...
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...
