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Vox Digitas

Over the last decade European citizens have gained a digital voice. Close to 350 million people in Europe currently use social networking sites, with more...

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Philip Collins

Philip Collins is a former Demos employee. He was previously Chief Speech Writer to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in 10 Downing Street. Between 2000...

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Budget 2014: taxing debates

Conservative MP Nick de Bois is half right. He’s right that the ‘squeezed middle’ is further squeezed by income tax thresholds that have not kept...

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An unpalatable truth

Figures released today by the Trussell Trust show that almost 1 million food parcels – 913,138 – were handed out by its food bank network in the...

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An artistic Autumn Statement

“The cultural life of the North will get a boost,” George Osborne trumpeted in the Autumn Statement, “including a major new theatre space in Manchester....

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The ‘suicide app’

This morning, the Samaritans announced SamaritansRadar, a tool that flags social media content within your network that might indicate someone is vulnerable. The tool was...

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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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Scotland decides. What about Twitter?

At 8pm tonight head of the Better Together Campaign Alistair Darling faces SNP leader Alex Salmond in a televised debate about Scotland’s future. It’s the...