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Soumaya Ghannoushi insists the media are on a daily mission to equate Islam with fascism. This is patently not the case
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Passion in the Workplace
Young people want to work for organisations they feel passionate about, says Peter Grigg.
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
Demos: scrap Ofsted inspections to tackle ‘target-obsessed culture’ in schools
A new report by think-tank Demos proposes a fundamental shake-up of how schools and pupils are assessed in order to rescue an education system obsessed with targets and league tables.
Almost half of ethnic minority population now live in majority non-white areas
Analysis of the Census by the think-tank Demos reveals that almost half of ethnic minority residents in England and Wales now live in areas where white British people are in a minority.
Half of workers wrongly assume bosses would foot the bill for long-term sick leave
UK workers are risking their own financial security by failing to protect themselves adequately, in case they are forced to leave work by illness or injury, according to new research by the think-tank Demos.
Disabled people set to lose £28.3bn of support
Demos analysis reveals the full impact of the Government's changes to the welfare system on disabled people.
Hire social media chiefs to put ‘Twitter snooping’ on a legal footing, think-tank tells police
Police constabularies should install dedicated heads of social media to tackle crime and ensure responsible collection of online intelligence data, according to Demos’s Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM).
Demos: Reward healthy choices with fast-track NHS treatment
People who make healthier life choices should be prioritised for non-emergency hospital appointments, according to an independent think-tank.
Ethnic minorities feel more empowered than white Britons, finds study
White British people feel significantly more disenfranchised by modern politics than minority groups, according to an analysis of a major government survey of community life in Britain by the think-tank Demos.
‘In broadband we trust’ say supporters of Italy’s Beppe Grillo
A pioneering survey of Beppe Grillo’s populist Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) reveals astonishing levels of distrust in politics, business and the media among its online supporters.
Demos: 120,000 pensioners a year to miss out on social care relief if Government ditches Dilnot cap proposal
Demos analysis reveals an extra 120,000 elderly people a year will receive no relief on their social care costs if the government forego Dilnot recommendations and adopt a £75k cap
Use benefits to change behaviour, argues Demos
New report shows how prepaid cards could offer financial inclusion to Britain’s 2 million unbanked and nurture a generation of savers.