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• Good politics and bad art It's becoming commonplace to talk about a revival of political art - just look at all the plays that have recently been written about evil Mr Bush and his lapdog Mr Tony. But is any of it actually any good? I've seen a couple of examples of the genre in the last week or two, and they leave me cold. Has good politics started to equal bad art?What sparked me off today was the picture at the centre of the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. Tony and Cherie are shown being expelled from no.10 while... continue reading 4th June 2007 Comments (3)
• Climate change, behaviour and innovation When did this happen? Is it suddenly ok to talk about the fact that people will need to change their behaviour if we want to tackle climate change? This discourse around behaviour is careful: it’s all about participation, not about prescription. It fits well with the latest media culture ethos – we’re all constantly on our mobiles, online and on facebook. Whether this will lead to an ‘I can’ politics, as David Miliband said recently, or ‘pro-social... continue reading Posted by Molly Webb on 4th June 2007 in The Disrupters Comments (2)
• Social capitalism? Simon Parker chaired a lively roundtable discussion on social enterprise at Demos last week. We wanted to know what the people and organisations representing or supporting the sector in various ways thought of the sector's future... continue reading Posted by Molly Webb on 3rd June 2007 Comments (2)
• Oh so social Since we launched our website almost a year ago, attention paid to social networking and social software has increased dramatically. That means Demos employees, too, are increasingly using a number of existing tools out there for fun and work. Check out our MySpace profile, our Flickr photos (also seen on most project pages) our del.icio.us tags, our very own wiki
   Technorati Profile continue reading Posted by Molly Webb on 1st June 2007 in Demos Website
• Review of Policing Sir Ronnie Flanagan, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary is leading an independent review of the police service. We have been asked to advise him. Given the very short deadline(s) for the review we could simply draw on some of our own work but it strikes me that we need to have a more comprehensive and innovative approach - hence why we have created a wiki to solicit the views of serving police officers (in England, Wales and internationally), public servants, academics and NGOs to answer the questions posed by the review. continue reading Posted by Charlie Edwards on 1st June 2007 in The Public Value of Security
• Oooooh Vienna.... ......That is where my references to 80s classic pop tunes end! Once again, I find myself in an airport departure lounge after a day of international schmoozing. Todays theme was community-based counter-terrorism at a conference organised by the OECD. I delivered one of the key note speeches. Oh er. And yes, todays venue was, er, Vienna. What was reassuring was the extent to which there seemed to be genuine buy-in for the idea that communities need to be central to our responses to... continue reading Posted by Rachel Briggs on 31st May 2007 in Bringing it Home Local Listening Sessions Comments (1)
• "Hi, your name is... Hi, your name is..." Slim/Shady (approach to London Branding) Our 10 ideas for Brown are in the New Statesman at the moment. Somewhere in there is a call for “a more inclusive, less corporate Olympics”. I’m not sure if the current hoo ha being cooked up around the release of the brand for the London Olympics is quite in this spirit. If you want a “sneak preview” of the messages that will attempt to define what London and the UK stands for over the next 10 years you can register for the website and then answer a series of... continue reading Posted by Charlie Tims on 31st May 2007 in Demos Projects on the 2012 London Olympics Comments (1)
• Women at the Top 'Women at the Top' is an event that will focus on women and leadership in the cultural and creative industries, with a provocation paper by Demos. It will be held on Monday 4th June, 2007, from 12.30-4.30 at the Barbican, Silk St, London, EC2Y 8DS continue reading Posted by Samuel Jones on 29th May 2007
• Internet Filtration: Coming to a Computer Near You? Last week I attended the release of a global survey of internet filtering, conducted by the OpenNet Initiative and hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. The results indicate that internet filtering is growing "in scope, scale, and sophistication." In the 41 countries evidence was collected in, some level of Internet filtering was detected in 25.  continue reading Posted by Tessa Simonds on 29th May 2007
• Informing or influencing?

  Really interesting post from Danny Finkelstein, over on the Times' Comment Central blog, which sums up the dilemmas we’ll be looking at our new project on ‘The Politics of Behaviour’.

   

  Commenting on the news that the government is changing the guidance on drinking whilst pregnant – despite no new medical evidence – in order to send “a strong signal” to women currently exceeding the current recommended limit

  continue reading Posted by Duncan O'Leary on 25th May 2007

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