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Jamie Bartlett
Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme
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- jamie.bartlett@demos.co.uk
Jamie is the Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media. His primary research interests are: terrorism, extremism and social media analysis, including the use of social media by political movements and law enforcement agencies.
Jamie is the head of the Violence and Extremism Programme, and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.
Jamie's primary research interests are:
- Terrorism, radicalisation and extremism
- Conspiracy theories
- The use of social media by political movements and law enforcement agencies
- Social media monitoring & analytics
- Surveillance technology, machine learning, automated sentiment analysis
- Privacy, law, social media research ethics, RIPA 2000
Jamie’s work focuses on the ways in which social media and modern communications and technology are changing political and social movements, with a special emphasis on terrorism and radical political movements.
The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media is a collaboration between Demos and the University of Sussex. The Centre combines automated data extraction and sentiment analysis with social science statistics, analysis and ethics, to produce insightful and robust policy research. Jamie is currently working on projects relating to research ethics for social media research, the future of surveillance legislation, and developing social media polling techniques.
Jamie has recently completed a major comparative research project of the online support for right wing populist parties in 12 European countries, based on a new data set of 13,000 Facebook fans of these groups. Forthcoming papers based on the German Pirate Party and the Italian Movimento 5 Stelle will be released later this year.
In 2012 he authored a paper with Sir David Omand called #Intelligence about how police and intelligence agencies should collect and use social media intelligence (‘SOCMINT’).
He is also working on projects relating conspiracy theories, the role of faith in Britain today, and critical thinking skills on the Internet. He advises a number of international government agencies and related groups in relation to terrorism and extremism, and is a frequent commentator in national and international media outlets.
Prior to working for Demos, Jamie was a research associate at the international humanitarian agency Islamic Relief and conducted field research in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Jamie holds Masters Degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. Jamie is an expert in research methods, and speaks fluent French and good classical Arabic.
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- Jamie Bartlett
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- 2007-09-18
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- Charles Leadbeater, Jamie Bartlett, Niamh Gallagher
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- 2008-01-18
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- Pamphlet
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- Jamie Bartlett
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- 2008-10-13
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- Report
Public service reform is one of the major preoccupations of the three main parties in the run up to the next general election. In fact they all seem to be heading in a similar direction: greater citizen involvement in design and delivery; more local decision making, better freedom for front line-staff, combined with greater efficiency.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Silvia Guglielmi, Silvia Guglielmi
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- 2009-02-04
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- Pamphlet
A Constitution for Social Care sets out a fair settlement between social care users and society.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Silvia Guglielmi
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- 2009-02-04
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- Report
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- Jamie Bartlett
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- 2009-07-28
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- Pamphlet
This pamphlet warns against 'salami slicing' style budget cuts, and recommends that amidst a recession, local government and public service providers can save money and deliver better services by focusing on prevention, personalisation, and collaboration.
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- Jonty Olliff-Cooper, Max Wind-Cowie, Jamie Bartlett
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- 2009-09-22
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- Pamphlet
As part of Demos' Progressive Coservatism project, Leading from the Front argues that public sector reform must empower frontline staff to create empowered citizens and improved public service provision.
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- Jamie Bartlett
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- 2009-10-28
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- Report
This pamphlet looks at how personal budgets will impact the social and health care market, what prospective budget holders know and think about personal budgets, how they would spend it and what difficulties they envisage.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell
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- 2010-04-16
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- Report
This report compares violent and non-violent radicals looking at their behaviour, the appeal of the al-Qaeda narrative and the role of governments and communities in responding.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell
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- 2010-07-20
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- Report
This report makes recommendations for the forthcoming review of the Government's 'Preventing Violent Extremism' programme.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller
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- 2010-08-27
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- Pamphlet
The Power of Unreason, the first in a series of reports by Demos on emerging themes in extremism and terrorism, examines the role played by conspiracy theories in extremist groups.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell
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- 2010-12-08
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- Pamphlet
This pamphlet is a summary of two years of research examining the difference between violent and non-violent radicals in Europe and Canada.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jen Lexmond
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- 2010-06-15
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- Pamphlet
This pamphlet is a toolkit comprised of a collection of ideas to increase youth participation in Britain’s mosques and Muslim communities.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Matt Grist
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- 2011-04-04
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- Pamphlet
This pamphlet investigates the causes of, and possible responses to, binge-drinking among young adults aged 18-25 in the UK.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Matt Grist
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- 2011-09-16
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- Pamphlet
This report investigates the connection between parenting style and harmful drinking behaviour
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- Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller
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- 2011-09-29
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- Report
This report examines the ability of young people in Britain to critically evaluate information they consume online.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Mark Littler
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- 2011-10-28
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- Report
Innovative research delves to the heart of the English Defence League.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell, Mark Littler
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- 2011-11-07
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- Pamphlet
This report analyses the responses of 10,000 online supporters of European populist political parties and movements, looking at the reasons why people are motivated to join.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell, Jack Benfield
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- 2012-01-30
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- Report
The first in a series of reports looking at populist movements in Europe, this study examines the views and motivations of online supporters of the Jobbik movement.
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- Jamie Bartlett
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- 2012-02-02
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- Pamphlet
This report is an evaluation of the Mosaic mentoring programme.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell, Jack Benfield
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- 2012-02-23
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- Pamphlet
The second in our series looking at populist movements in Europe, this report investigates the Sweden Democrats party and their supporters.
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- Sir David Omand, Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller
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- 2012-04-24
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- Pamphlet
This pamphlet outlines a legal, principled grounding for the use of social media for intelligence purposes.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell, Mona Bani, Jack Benfield
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- 2012-05-15
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- Pamphlet
This report is the third in our series of reports into the rise of populist parties and movements in Western Europe, this time looking at the Danish People's Party.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell, Sarah de Lange
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- 2012-09-14
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- Pamphlet
This report is the fourth in the Populism in Europe series, this time looking at the Netherlands, Geert Wilders and the Partij voor de Vrijheid.
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- Jamie Bartlett
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- 2012-09-14
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- Pamphlet
This report finds high levels of consumer anxiety over data-sharing and argues that they should be given meaningful choice and control over the information they share.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan Birdwell
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- 2012-10-04
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- Pamphlet
This pamphlet is the fifth in our series of reports on European populism, this time looking at Italy's Lega Nord.
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- Jonathan Birdwell, Jamie Bartlett
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- 2012-10-04
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- Pamphlet
This pamphlet is the sixth in our series of reports on European populism, this time looking at CasaPound, an Italian neo-fascist political and cultural movement.
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- Jamie Bartlett
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- 2012-12-18
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- Pamphlet
This evaluation looks at the impact of the Mosaic International Leadership Programme.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Mark Littler, Duncan McDonnell, Caterina Froio
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- 2013-02-14
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- Report
This report presents the results of a survey of 1,865 Facebook fans of Beppe Grillo and the Movimento 5 Stelle, including data on who they are, what they think, and what motivates them to shift from virtual to real-world activism.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller, Jeremy Crump, Lynne Middleton
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- 2013-03-25
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- Report
This report is an in-depth analysis of the police's use of social media to monitor intelligence, engage with the community, and tackle crime.
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- Jamie Bartlett, Sid Bennett, Rutger Birnie, Simon Wibberley
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- 2013-04-16
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- Report
This paper uses data analysis of the main political parties' social media supporters, and examines the implications of this new political membership.
On the edge of violence?
Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan BirdwellThis project looks at the relationship between violent and non-violent radicalisation by mapping the flow of ideas, people and money through violent and non-violent radical groups.
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Wicked Jihad
Jamie BartlettCounter terrorism policy is increasingly about preventing violent extremism before it arises but we are still a long way from understanding what that appeal is. This think-piece explores some explanations which are often overlooked.
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Participative Public Services
Charles Leadbeater, Niamh Gallagher, Jamie Bartlett, Jen LexmondThe Participative Public Services project will explore how to make participative, person-centred approaches to social care the norm over the next three to five years.
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Bringing it Home Local Listening Sessions
Hannah Lownsbrough, Rachel Briggs, Peter Harrington, Jamie Bartlett
Understanding Social Care Markets
Jamie Bartlett, Anna WilkinsonThe government is committed to rolling out personal budgets across all of social care in the next three years. The scale of the transformation is enormous will turn care provision on its head. Demos is carrying out research to find out how this can work and how it will succeed.
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Getting more for less: Efficiency in the Public Sector
Jamie BartlettThis research is takes a fresh look at government efficiency through types of reform that transform public services: personalisation, prevention, and collaboration.
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A Constitution for Social Care
Jamie Bartlett, Silvia Guglielmi, Silvia GuglielmiDemos has partnered with two leading charities, the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Leonard Cheshire Disability, to create A Constitution for Social Care. As the government plans an overhaul of social care in 2009, we wished to investigate a series of outstanding issues and fundamental flaws in the current system.
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Aspirations
Jamie BartlettThis project looks at ideas for raising aspirations amongst young Muslims in the UK.
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Neighbourhood Watch 2.0
Jonathan Birdwell, Jamie BartlettDemos is looking at how communities can bring neighbourhood watch into the twenty-first century.
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Under the Influence
Jamie Bartlett, Matt GristThis project will investigate youth 'binge drinking', focusing in particular on the impact of parenting and peer influences on drinking behaviour.
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Populism in Europe
Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan BirdwellThis project from the Violence and Extremism team looks at the growth of populism across Europe.
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Inside the EDL
Jamie BartlettThe project looks at how the English Defence League work and who its supporters are.
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Truth, lies and the internet
Jamie Bartlett, Carl MillerThis projects asks the extent to which young people can discriminate between the wealth of information found online.
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Populism in Europe
Jamie Bartlett, Jonathan BirdwellBuilding on The New Face of Digital Populism, Demos is publishing a series of country-specific reports on the growth of populism in Europe.
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The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media
Jamie Bartlett, Carl Miller, Sid Bennett, Rutger Birnie, Evrim CamuzThe Centre produces new political, social and policy insight and understanding through social media research.
MoreDecoupling radicalisation and terrorism
A focus on radicals is too simplistic to successfully prevent terrorism argues Jamie Bartlett.
Is Twitter a good source of breaking news?
Jamie Bartlett analyses the strength and limitations of crowdsourcing.
Tribal tweeters
How loyal are people who follow MPs on Twitter? Jamie Bartlett crunches the numbers.
Re-examining the EDL
Jamie Bartlett revisits his 2010 interview with the EDL’s leader, Tommy Robinson.
Why did the pollsters miss Beppe Grillo?
Jamie Bartlett explains the importance of social media in the Italian comedian's electoral success.
How a comedian changed Italian politics
Jamie Bartlett on Beppe Grillo, whose Five Star political movement is currently polling third in the upcoming Italian election.
‘Google for Spies’ is hardly news
Jamie Bartlett argues that mass social media monitoring must be regulated, limited and put on a legal footing.
A seal of clap-proval
Jamie Bartlett finds a novel way to take the pulse of Lancaster's Question Time audience.
Can multiculturalism work online too?
Jamie Bartlett on how we achieve integration on the internet.
Has Nick Griffin broken the law?
Jamie Bartlett on the complexities of law and social media.
Why do people support the Front National?
Jamie Bartlett explores the reasons why people support the French populists.
Government is still a way behind Mark Zuckerberg
Jamie Bartlett says that the new communications security Bill still leaves too many questions unanswered.
Filters are not the answer
Jamie Bartlett argues that parents must take responsibility for how their children use the internet.
#Intelligence
Jamie Bartlett outlines the principles that strike a balance between public security and social media privacy.
Why Britain beats the far-right
After his appearance on BBC One's The Big Questions, Jamie Bartlett shares his thoughts about Britain's far-right.
The re-emergence of anti-Semitic conspiracies
Jamie Bartlett on what conspiracy theories can tell us about the Toulouse killer.
Truth and lies online
Jamie Bartlett discusses methods of teaching digital literacy to young people.
Tackling radicalisation is an ugly business
Jamie Bartlett argues that prevention work will do little to avert far-right terrorism.
Extreme frustration
Jamie Bartlett on the difficulties defining an 'extremist'.
The EDL online
Jamie Bartlett outlines his latest report which investigates the EDL's online support base.
Truth, Lies and the Internet
Jamie Bartlett outlines his latest report on young people and digital fluency.
Don't bottle it
Jamie Bartlett summarises the findings of his recent research on parenting and harmful drinking.
The tyranny of the soundbite
Jamie Bartlett says politicians relentlessly spouting rehersed lines is bad for politics and the media.
Wish You Waziristan shows the disappointing reality of jihad
Jamie Bartlett says the axed FCO anti-terrorism film is anything but trivial.
Jared Loughner
Jamie Bartlett considers the shooting by Jared Loughner and the growing role of conspiracy thinking in acts of political violence.
The Quilliam Foundation
Jamie Bartlett comments on the latest news about the Qulliam Foundation.
An ill thought out invitation.
Jamie Bartlett explains why the EDL's decision to invite Pastor Terry Jones to the UK is a foolish move.
Far right-proofing politics
Jamie Bartlett considers the thoughts raised by Laura Fairrie's film about Margaret Hodge and the BNP's election fight in Barking.
Put 'proportionality' in the rubbish bin
Jamie Bartlett reacts to the use of the word 'proportionality' in Theresa May's speech at RUSI.
The bloggers strike back
Jamie Bartlett and Carl Miller describe their recent report on conspiracy theories and the online reaction.
Recruiting for Jihad
On the day that Al-Qaeda launches its first English-language magazine, Jamie Bartlett examines Jihadi strategies to recruit young people.
The EDL: fact and fiction
Jamie Bartlett disputes comparisons between the English Defence League and al-Qaeda
Could do better
Jamie Bartlett proposes the idea of a political report card.
More political terms onto the refuse heap
Jamie Bartlett takes aim at politicians' sloppy use of language.
A very British weapon
Jamie Bartlett says that satire should be the weapon of choice against terrorism.
Not what you say, but the way you say it
Jamie Bartlett looks at accents as a signal of legitimacy in Islam.
In defence of “one size fits all” public services
Jamie Bartlett goes from 'one size fits all' to 'one size fits none'...
The Leviathan in the room
21/07/09 Jamie Bartlett thinks that Jon Cruddas and others have misunderstood...
Advice for Bercow
24/06/09 So we have a new speaker. I'd like to hear what advice people would give Mr...
Lessons from the BNP
09/10/09 So the post European election autopsy begins - and the two big stories are the...
Government Targets and Positive Freedom
In recent months, the use of Whitehall targets to drive public sector performance has...
The tyranny of balance
The relationship between language and politics is a strange one. In 1946, George Orwell...
Muslims in the Police Force
The issue of discrimination and representativeness in the police has long been an important...
On Fairness 2
I didn’t attend George Osborne’s recent speech here at Demos “on fairness...
Podcast: Wicked Jihad
A new podcast. This week, Jamie Bartlett explains why we need to understand what the appeal...
Radical measures
Jamie and I have a piece on Comment is free on the Government's new new-ish radicalisation...
Jihad in the age of YouTube
I've a short piece in this month's Prospect magazine which looks at the suicide...
Extreme Measures
I recently wrote on Comment is Free about what we should do with the so called preachers...
Wicked Jihad?
I have written a short think piece which questions some of the assumptions about our...
5th Worldwide Security Conference
I am blogging directly from the EastWest Institute’s 5th Annual Conference on Security...
Podcast: Making It Personal
A new year return for the Demos podcast. This time we're talking about the new pamphlet...
agile & government: oxymoron?
Simon Parker and I have published a provocation paper with the State Services Authority...
Social Enterprise
I've recently blogged about social enteprise and its potential for social europe journal...
The end of globalism?
Last week, John Ralston Saul, a renowned philosopher, novelist, political penseur came to...