Joe Martin
Joe is Associate Director of Policy at Demos. He works with the broader team to shape Demos policy, with a particular focus on public service...
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Waves: Progress and learning from Stage 1
We are delighted to be sharing an update on Waves – the UK’s largest trial of digital democracy. In Camden, Stage 1 of Waves has...
Beyond Bricks: New towns and the citizenship opportunity
The UK’s promised fourth wave of New Towns offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Not only to accelerate housing supply and support economic growth, but to redefine...
Getting Down to Business: Attitudes of small businesses to popular, pragmatic pro-growth tax rises
With the Budget now less than a month away, the government is finalising it’s plan of action for filling the UK’s widening fiscal gap. The...
Inside the mind of a 16-year-old: From Andrew Tate to Bonnie Blue to Nigel Farage – what do first time voters think about social media, politics, the state of Britain and their futures?
What do young people really think about politics, social media, and the future? In this guest report, authors Shuab Gamote and Peter Hyman, take readers...
The Demos guide to pragmatic, pro-growth tax reform
Must the government choose between a broken promise and a broken economy, or is there another way? As the Budget countdown continues (just 34 days...
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
In this guest report journalist and founder of Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, and the academic Dr Natalie Martin, set out a new framework to help us...
The story to tell on tax rises: How to gain public trust in tax rises
The stakes for the upcoming Budget are huge. Not only is the government set to need between £20 billion and £50 billion to meet its...
Bursting the party conference filter bubble
With a sigh of relief at Demos Digital, party conference season is finally over and with it, its own information ecosystem. To burst what can...
Beyond the Headlines: The full story of the 2024 inheritance tax reforms – and lessons to learn
At Demos, we have spent two years exploring inheritance tax, investigating underlying public attitudes to inheritance, co-designing a set of reforms with the public, and...