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A Tale of Two Classrooms

The education system in England and Wales has of late been subject to rapid and tumultuous reforms, affecting every aspect of it. While the debate...

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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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Below the Samaritans Radar

A couple of weeks back those decent people at the Samaritans got themselves into a bit of trouble. They released an app on Twitter which allowed...

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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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How should I vote?

Today, Demos and Bite the Ballot are announcing a crowd-funding campaign to build the first ever Voter Advice Application designed for young people. A clever and engaging...

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Do No Harm

Protecting the NHS from fraud, abuse and misuse is rightly a priority for any government. Only by demonstrating that shared resources are guarded jealously 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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Statelessness isn’t a solution

With increasing frequency, the withdrawal of British citizenship is being used as a national security tool. Since 2002, 53 people have been stripped of their...

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Going it Alone

It is no secret that the self-employed population of the UK has been growing steadily for more than a decade. There are now 4.6 million...

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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...