The promise and pitfalls of One Nation Labour
Ed Miliband's next job is to explain what ‘One Nation’ implies when it comes to the big policy choices, writes Duncan O'Leary.
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A possibly unpopular message
Carl Miller argues that social media analysis must look beyond its marketing roots.
Mother's ruin: mums determine their children's drinking habits
Jonathan Birdwell explains Demos's upcoming research into the relationship between a mother's drinking habits and their child's future behaviour.
BBC1 debates controlling people's benefits spending
BBC One's Sunday Morning Live encourages viewers to share their opinions on Demos's welfare reform polling. (From 2min 40sec)
Should claimants be paid vouchers to stop spending on 'vices'?
BBC News round-up Demos's fringe debate on welfare reform and note the key findings of the polling discussed.
New Labour ideas - but can they win the election?
Duncan O'Leary talks to Channel 4 News about the role think-tanks play in winning elections.
Majority believe state should control how benefits are spent
Demos polling shows substantial public support for government control of benefits spending amongst certain groups.
The NHS needs people to be more responsible
Max Wind-Cowie writes in the Guardian that making bad lifestyle decisions puts the NHS at risk.
Liberal alignments
Richard Reeves discusses his essay A Liberal Inside and positioning on the Today programme (1:14:30)
Twitter will change our response to everything
Carl Miller explains the thinking behind the new Demos initiative, the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) to politics.co.uk
Demos calls for voting age to be lowered
Demos wants British 16 year-olds to be able to vote.
Conspiracy of silence on parental failure
The think tank Demos calls for an end to the “conspiracy of silence” on poor parenting today.
‘Character’ is the key to social mobility
‘Tough love’ parents who combine warmth and discipline are better at building good character capabilities in their children, finds a major new report from the think tank Demos.
Illegal downloaders are one of music industry’s biggest customers
People who use peer-to-peer filesharing websites to illegally download music spend over £30 more on music per year than those who do not find a new poll comm
Tories must pass progressive test
Demos publishes '12 Tests for 2012' for a Conservative government
Front line 'crippled' by lack of trust
Mistrust in front line staff is harming public services, says report
Employee ownership could tame "speculative excesses", says Demos
Britain's economy would be more resistant to crisis if more firms were employee-owned, co-operative or mutualised, according to a new Demos report.
George Osborne: Progressive reform in an age of austerity
On 11 August 2009, Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne delivered a speech on progressive politics to an audience at Demos.
New Project to make Left idealistic, open and radical again
Demos launches a new project, led by James Purnell, saying the political Left needs to rediscover its idealism, pluralism and appetite for radical ideas.
Report calls for capital not cash for welfare claimants
New Demos research outlines a progressive conservative roadmap to ‘recapitalise the poor’