Passion in the Workplace
Young people want to work for organisations they feel passionate about, says Peter Grigg.
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The importance of being there
On Monday I went to see author and thinker Clay Shirky talk at a lunchtime seminar hosted by the Demos think tank. Clay was charming and intelligent and funny, and I got to hear him thinking out loud about the impact of social tools on international polit
A Demos event worth turning up to
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, was a must see event.
State of Trust
In State of Trust, a study written for the leading think tank Demos (and funded by Communities and Local Government and the IDeA), Simon Parker, Phil Spires, Faizal Farook and Melissa Mean explored what trust might mean, why it is useful and how councils
Wanted: risk-takers for the next decade
Duncan O'Leary and Paul Skidmore of the think-tank Demos argued that enterprise should be embedded within the teaching of employability skills, for both young people and adult learners. "Common debate centres around literacy, numeracy, and communicatio
Individual taste
Despite fears that the system could be open to abuse, the government this week made it clear that personal budgets for care are the key to providing services that people really need.
Myths and Monsters
Three years after 7/7 the threat is still real and still misunderstood
State must proceed with technology in classroom plan
The UK think-tank Demos last year published a report Their Space: education for a digital generation. It talks about young people spending their time in a space which adults find difficult to supervise or understand. It found that "the use of digital tech
The many faces of innovation
INNOVATION has become a popular subject on the business bookshelf over the past few years. But few of the new titles have offered much in the way of vision, insight or practical guidance. Two recent works—Charles Leadbeater's “We-Think” (Profile Books) an
Nick Clegg's poolside debate
The Southwark Lido has been created on a derelict site in Union Street as part of the London Festival of Architecture. The work of collective EXYZT, it is open daily till Sunday 13 July. Tuesday's debate – entitled Changing the settings, changing polit
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’