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Gaps within gaps

Today sees the release of a report by the Commons Education Select Committee that shows poor white British students – both boys and, more unexpectedly, girls –...

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Payment Power

The payments system – the mechanism by which all money is transferred from one account to another – is a vital, yet largely unseen, part...

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The urgent question

Why are all women not having regular cervical screening? To the ladies in the audience (and the gents with an imagination), the answer lies in...

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Trust in the community

Demos has always been interested in power. And not just in the conventional way that almost everyone is interested in power – we’ve investigated how...

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Two cheers for populism

A democracy in which everyone agreed wouldn’t be worthy of the name. Liberal democracies are meant to be – need to be – vibrant, chaotic...

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In Europe we do not trust

Across Europe, anti-EU political parties are on the rise, and are expected to continue this trend in the current elections. One recent survey by YouGov...

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Scouting for character

Politicians on both sides of the despatch box have recently emphasised the importance of building ‘character’ into our education system. The Prime Minister launched the...

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Piketty makes an argument for John Lewis

JM Keynes’ General Theory was published seven years after the New York stock market crash of 1929. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was published six years after...