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As part of our mission at Demos to build a collaborative democracy, we are keen to practise what we preach and involve the public in developing our own policy visions. We think this can be particularly powerful on contentious issues...
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This week, the Chancellor delivered a significant Budget – raising public spending by £70 billion, funded by large tax rises and borrowing for investment. Hidden away in the Budget documents was a sneak preview of one of the first major...
A couple of weeks back those decent people at the Samaritans got themselves into a bit of trouble. They released an app on Twitter which allowed a user to use an algorithm to automatically scan the tweets of the people they...
This morning, the Samaritans announced SamaritansRadar, a tool that flags social media content within your network that might indicate someone is vulnerable. The tool was created by a digital agency – SpreadingJam – and claims to use a ‘specially designed...
Today, Demos and Bite the Ballot are announcing a crowd-funding campaign to build the first ever Voter Advice Application designed for young people. A clever and engaging VAA could help to make history by driving up the youth vote to unprecedented levels....
We wake today into a new political dawn. UKIP has won their first Parliamentary seat, and very nearly got another. Commentators from all sides of politics are, on one point, agreed: this is a big moment, and it feels that...
With increasing frequency, the withdrawal of British citizenship is being used as a national security tool. Since 2002, 53 people have been stripped of their British citizenship; of these, 48 have had it removed during the Coalition government. Until recently,...
It is an image we won’t forget: of what appears to be the US journalist James Foley being decapitated by an Islamic State militant. Alas this type of disgusting and gruesome act fits the historic pattern of acts of terrorism...
At 8pm tonight head of the Better Together Campaign Alistair Darling faces SNP leader Alex Salmond in a televised debate about Scotland’s future. It’s the first, and only, debate between the two big hitters before Scotland decides the fate of...
The Commonwealth Games began in Scotland this week with great fanfare, shortly after the football World Cup came to an end in Brazil. Beyond the opening ceremonies and sporting glamour, the hosting of such events is always subject to economic...
Today sees the release of a report by the Commons Education Select Committee that shows poor white British students – both boys and, more unexpectedly, girls – are lagging behind their peers from other ethnicities. Just 32 per cent of disadvantaged white...
