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Police's week of race woes
NAMP have pointed to the results of an audit which detailed how Muslim officers were often overlooked for specialist operations including counter-terrorism. They also questioned why almost half of the 43 forces across UK didn't responded to the audit questionnaire as conducted by NAMP and think tank Demos.
4th July 2008
| London Turkish Gazette
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MET gives CPS file on Hain's late donations
He has been frustrated that the inquiry has taken six months. He is only gradually re-emerging into Westminster politics through his interest in Zimbabwe, and at a Demos event on tax evasion by the rich last night.
3rd July 2008
| by Patrick Wintour
| The Guardian
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Individual taste
Simon Duffy, chief executive of In Control, a social enterprise leading the implementation of personal budgets, says: "If there is a thorough and proper system in place to ensure the right person has control of the budget, there is no logical or rational basis for restricting how people should use it that reduces the efficiency of the budget."
Charles Leadbeater, co-author of a report on personal budgets by the thinktank Demos agrees: "If it were to restrict choice to a menu of what is already on offer from the authority then it would not be a full implementation of the idea. As long as it is legal, and contributes to meeting the goals of the person's support plan, people should be able to spend the money on whatever they choose."
2nd July 2008
| by Alison Benjamin
| The Guardian
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budgets, personal
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The Mythical Million
ust a few months ago, the London-based think tank Demos warned in a report that "the center of gravity of innovation has started moving from the West to the East," and that China could become a "scientific superpower" by 2050. Indeed, the raw numbers are impressive. China cranked out more than 600,000 engineers in 2005 alone, and India produces nearly 500,000 technical grads annually.
2nd July 2008
| by Melinda Liu and Sudip Mazumdar
| Newsweek
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innovation
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0.7% is not enough
Bringing it Home
Britain needs more Muslim police officers. But some forces don't even know - or won't say - how many there are.
1st July 2008
| by Jamie Bartlett
| Comment is Free
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Democratising Engagement
For at least a decade, democratic renewal has been a top priority for all the UK’s major parties yet the results are not very encouraging. The authors here suggest ways of improving citizen engagement and suggest may be its time to look outwards.
Jamie Bartlett
1st July 2008
| by Jamie Bartlett and Andrea Cornwall
| eGov
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Minister is Dragged Into Police Race Row
Bringing it Home
Jacqui Smith will be asked to intervene tomorrow after the damning revelation that at least 20 police forces refused to co-operate with the first audit into the treatment of Muslim and black officers. Information from those forces that did take part suggested there was routine racial discrimination against them.
Accusations that police forces refused to co-operate with the audit, which was conducted jointly by the National Association of Muslim Police and the think-tank Demos, is bound to cause consternation in government.
30th June 2008
| by Mark Townsend
| The Observer
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Truly, madly, politically
David Davis's snap resignation struck a chord with people because it was spontaneous and unscripted. But why did so many commentators struggle with the idea it was a reasoned decision, ponders Demos director Catherine Fieschi. And why do we have a problem with emotion in politics?
Catherine Fieschi
20th June 2008
| by Catherine Fieschi
| New Statesman
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Digital Sharing and Privacy
John Tuck of the British library praises the Demos 'UK Confidential' pamphlet as part of the library's Digital Lives research project.
