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New Political Actors in Europe

Across Europe, there has been rapid growth of left-wing, anti-capitalist social and political movements that criticise the establishment and use social media to organise and...

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Health in Austerity

The NHS recently reached its 65th birthday, but it is not settling down into its golden years with ease. Instead, it is faced with a...

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Generation Strains

It is no secret that public support for the UK’s welfare state is in long-term decline. Generation Strains provides the definitive analysis of this phenomenon....

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One Year On

The Paralympics, in addition to being a celebration of disabled sporting prowess, was supposed to be the biggest showcase for disabled arts and culture ever...

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Finance for Growth

There is an ongoing and heated debate in the UK about the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for economic recovery, and the willingness...

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Twenty Years of Ideas

In 2013, Demos marked its twentieth anniversary as Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. Anniversaries are useful opportunities to take stock and look for patterns of meaning in...

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Ways and Means

Death comes to us all, but this truism doesn’t make it any easier to talk about. In health and social care, the understandable sensitivity around...

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Something for Something

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the contributory principle in welfare. Polling has signalled a sea change in public attitudes, with many disillusioned...

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Detoxifying School Accountability

This report takes aim at the target-driven accountability in the English education system: principally, the Ofsted inspection regime, tests and school league tables. For the...