Free speech in the post-truth era
By Dr Robert Simpson, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, UCL This guest blog is a response to the findings of Demos’ open survey on people’s...
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Online harms: we need to bring the public into public policy
By Maeve Walsh, Associate at Carnegie UK Trust As we wait for the final response to the consultation Government’s Online Harms White Paper – a wait...
Patient Power: Unleashing choice over routine medications
Despite patient choice on medication being essential to the NHS Constitution, our report Patient Power shows it is rarely happening on the ground. When the NHS in...
Where can we build consensus on the future of the web?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, for many people, computer screens have become a crucial connection to the outside world, and online spaces the stand-in for physical...
The Great Cyber Surrender: How police and governments abandon cybercrime victims
In the most comprehensive transatlantic study of its kind, we find that the approach of both police and policymakers to tackling cybercrime is so inadequate...
Achieving Levelling-Up: The Structures and Processes Needed
By Charles Seaford (Demos) and Ben Glover (Demos), Professor Simon Collinson, Dr Charlotte Hoole, Dr Anastasios Kitsos and Dr Diana Gutierrez Posada (University of Birmingham),...
How will communities mobilise to build back a better Britain?
Community spirit has been a welcome silver lining as we’ve seen the increasing role neighbours have played in supporting their local communities through COVID-19. There...
Consensus coming just-in-time: Economic resilience in the age of Covid-19
With Britain so plugged in to the global economy, the pandemic has raised questions about our ability to provide for ourselves. Fears of shortages at...
‘Frankly, we did win this election’: on social media, who will watch the watchmen?
Election Day in the US saw a predictable surge in false, misleading or harmful narratives emerging, from robocalls telling voters to stay home, to YouTube...
Everything in Moderation: Platforms, communities and users in a healthy online environment
It is barely an oversimplification to characterise current debate on Internet regulation as a fight over the things people see, and the things they don’t....