Bottom-up public services
Yesterday, Ed Miliband set out his party’s vision for a more responsive, more accountable state. While he acknowledged the need for further cuts, it is also highly...
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A return to ‘relationship banking’?
The recent news that Dad’s Army, the wartime comedy, is to be re-made as a feature film was greeted with a sceptical response in the letters pages...
Contours of a new Conservatism
With media attention so focused on the Labour leadership race, something interesting is happening to Conservative politics at the moment. I think the contours of...
Demos Chief Executive responds to Keir Starmer’s speech in Manchester
Labour’s promise to form a government that can prevent problems as well as fix them is to be welcomed. The state is stuck in a...
The Inheritance Tax Puzzle: Challenging assumptions about public attitudes to inheritance
Over £100 billion is passed on in inheritances and gifts in the UK each year, and the value passed on in inheritance in England is...
‘£7 billion electoral gamble’ to abolish inheritance tax unlikely to pay off, according to new research
2023 has seen frequent briefings to the media that inheritance tax is to be cut or abolished altogether. In the end, abolishing inheritance tax was...
Hate Speech after Brexit
The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos has been undertaking research into the impact that the European Referendum result has had on...
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...
Future Homes
Future Homes, a new report by Demos and AXA, finds the public is deeply concerned that homes built today are not fit for the future...
Emerging divisions on trade after Brexit
Research by Sofia Vasilopoulou, Dan Keith and Liisa Talving in partnership with Demos. Emerging divisions on trade after Brexit finds that Leavers are more...