Designing an Apprenticeships Levy that Works
One surprise announcement of the Summer Budget is the new apprenticeships levy. This is intended to help meet the government’s target of 3 million more...
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Demos under lockdown
Squashed in the box room, trying to ignore the shouts of children outside. Huddled over a makeshift workstation in the kitchen while your partner works...
Clegg’s Eurovision
The EU isn’t perfect, said Nick Clegg at a Demos fringe event last night, and pro-Europeans shouldn’t pretend that it is. In fact, he argued,...
The democratic argument for tax simplification
Tax simplification: unlikely to get you out of bed in the morning. If it does, you’re probably concerned about the business burdens of a lengthy...
The Commission on Assisted Dying
The Commission on Assisted Dying, launched in November 2010, was set up to consider whether the current legal and policy approach to assisted dying in...
The LIBOR Furore
This report explores the wider lessons of the recent LIBOR rate-fixing scandal. INTRODUCING DEMOS FINANCE Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, there has been...
Islamophobia on Twitter
New online big data research by the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos think tank has found significant spikes in the use...
The Nowhere Office
By Julia Hobsbawm The first report from the Chair of the Demos Workshift Commission, Julia Hobsbawm, says that lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic should...
Post Pandemic Places
The pandemic has placed ‘local’ in the spotlight. As our horizons have narrowed, we have a greater awareness, and in many cases, appreciation of our...
The growing social mission of social housing
At the Conservative Party Conference last month, Demos hosted an event with the social housing provider Orbit regarding their role is helping their tenants with...