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We need to make sure that we reach the people that have the power to tackle the root causes of poverty and really help people that are struggling with the issues we care about. We have been proudly working in...
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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...
David Anderson QC, the current Independent Reviewer of counter-terrorism powers is conducting a review of internet surveillance. Anyone who thinks there aren’t independent minded people watching the watchers really should check out his website and excellent Twitter feed. He reads a lot,...
As I read through Peter Oborne’s extraordinary article last night, on his resignation from the Daily Telegraph, one sentence leapt out at me: ‘I added that our readers were loyal, that the paper was still very profitable and that the owners had...
As the election campaigns get underway, there is a new battleground: Twitter. Tweets are the newest weapons in the political arsenal, and Demos is partnering with the Sunday Times to cover this new digital side of politics and campaigning. Politicians know Twitter...
Rachel Sylvester’s piece in the Times yesterday portrayed the coming election as a ‘generation game’ where Conservatives court the grey vote, while Labour targets younger people. She’s right that there is a growing generational divide on certain issues. Younger voters are, for example,...
This may be a radical proposition but I think that, mostly, people are not stupid, do not like being blackmailed, and tend to vote for people that they identify with. I wonder if this is radical, because the spate of...
Deeper analysis of last week’s 2013/14 GCSE results show the attainment gap between pupils on free school meals and their peers has widened for a successive year. If the current trend continues we would see a return to a wider...
One thing that has always puzzled me is why liberals are not more critical of the EU. Liberals tend to support the devolution of power, yet the EU represents the centralisation of it. So why, in general, the support? Yesterday...
Today in Sheffield, Ed Miliband will draw attention to the ‘missing one million voters’ from the electoral role as a result of the shift from household to individual registration. It’s estimated that young people in particular make up a huge...
Here are three things I’ve noticed recently: 1) Barney Stringer’s fascinating blog about London passing an extraordinary milestone – the population finally caught up with its 1939 peak population – from now on it will be an all-time high. London needs, Stringer...
