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Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town report was undertaken to map the fortunes of the satellite towns orbiting 21 of England’s largest cities, and to better understand their...

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Rethinking Incapacity

The ‘Rethinking Incapacity’ project aims to help policymakers create a better system of incapacity assessment – not just tinkering around the edges of the current...

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New Political Actors in Europe

Across Europe, there has been rapid growth of left-wing, anti-capitalist social and political movements that criticise the establishment and use social media to organise and...

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Direct democracy?

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...

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#Intelligence

The growth of social media poses a dilemma for security and law enforcement agencies. On the one hand, social media could provide a new form...

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Good Jobs

What makes a job ‘good’? In the midst of a jobs-rich recovery, attention inevitably shifts to the quality of the jobs being created – both...

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A Question of Trust

Well-placed trust is a vital social good. It is foundational to a healthy democracy, and necessary for human beings to work confidently with one another....