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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...
In a period dominated by big ‘P’ politics, there has been an important – and concerning – change to recent policy-making: the social partnership model of the Low Pay Commission (LPC) has begun to crack. This started with the decision...
Foodbanks are in the news today, not for the first time in the election campaign. Food poverty has become a litmus test for the Government’s record on the economy and welfare reform, so attention will no doubt focus on the...
As part of our ongoing project analysing the role that social media is playing in the 2015 General Election, Demos – alongside Qlik, the University of Sussex and Ipsos MORI – have been working to build new tools to measure...
My heart was pounding as I waited for Paul to arrive at the train station where we’d agreed to meet. I’d been communicating with him for some time, all via the internet. Paul was a vitriolic, aggressive neo-Nazi who spent...
Today’s manifesto launches from UKIP and the Liberal Democrats means all the main parties’ wares are finally on display. But as the dust begins to settle on these documents, after so much fanfare, it is worth pausing to reflect on...
Yesterday’s big launch went well, with 1.6 million viewers excitedly tuning in to watch on television. But enough about Game of Thrones – this is manifesto week. Today saw the Conservatives take their turn, following Labour’s safety-first effort yesterday. As expected, there...
Young people in the UK are increasingly disillusioned with electoral politics. Over the past three General Elections, an average of 40 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds voted, while 60 percent of this age group turned out to vote in the...
Much has been made of the similarity in language between Labour’s Manifesto today and Hilary Clinton’s campaign launch last night – but there is good a dose of Bill in there too. America’s 42nd president used to talk of being ‘in the future business’; Ed...
The increasing integration of new media technologies, and particularly social media, into our personal and working lives has heralded an enormous amount of debate and discussion about their transformative potential. In politics, this has centred on the capacity for social...
