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In a period of unprecedented economic uncertainty, mass unemployment, recession and an increasingly populist political discourse the open society is under threat. From growing discontent...

In the wake of the global recession, unprecedented cooperation between employers and employees helped British workplaces adjust relatively well. This led to fewer of the...

The impact of global economic changes has been to boost the premium attached to high skills. As the UK’s most globalised city, London has been...

Populist parties and movements are now a force to be reckoned with in many Western European countries.  These groups are known for their opposition to...

Youth employment is currently in crisis, with nearly a million young people registered unemployed. Yet beneath a recession-driven short-term squeeze on job creation lies a...

Social care in the UK is facing a two-part revolution. First, local authority social care budgets are subject to substantial cuts, driven by cuts in...

The creative industries are the UK’s ‘Cinderella sector’. While the economy is currently growing at a snail’s pace, there are very few conventional policy levers...

The internet is the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today. But the amount of material available at the click of a...

In a free and liberal society, people will sometimes drink too much. Even though ‘binge-drinking’ in Britain has been falling for five years, increasingly public...

The social web has completely transformed civil society. With greater ease than ever before, people can voice their views, connect to others, learn to see...