'Wicked issues', from obesity to climate change and welfare reform, are reshaping government around a new set of priorities: the politics of public behaviour. More than ever governments are being asked to confront the public consequences of private decisi
Speaking English is "fundamental to integration and cohesion". That was the conclusion of an independent report last year - and the rationale behind the latest government consultation on English for speakers of other languages. With the consultation now c
The six convicted men were calling Muslims to wage jihad - holy war - against non-believers and invaders of Islamic lands. In Islamic jurisprudence, the concept of jihad and the individual or collective responsibility to undertake it is complex and contro
Spain has a new cabinet with a female majority. France is in thrall to the Sarkozettes. Even Italy is feeling the force of the political ‘genderquake’. So why is Britain lagging behind?
o complete is the feminisation of progressive think-tank leadership that when Jennifer Moses, former head of the Liberal Democrat-leaning think tank CentreForum, was scooped into the new Downing Street talent pool last month, interest was sparked in her n
Alistair Darling's first Budget lacked fireworks, but it still gained acres of analysis in the press. By contrast, the publication 24 hours later of the White Paper Innovation Nation elicited barely a whisper of coverage. This is a shame, as it brings an
Bruni-Sarkozy has also expressed an interest in meeting Jamie Oliver to develop plans to introduce a more "continental" approach to eating and drinking, which could see British parents encouraged to serve small volumes of red wine with meals to children a
The long-awaited strategy document follows comments last year by the think-tank Demos that the government ‘lacked a clear and coherent view’ of security risks to UK. At the time Demos’ Charlie Edwards said: "Successive British governments have rarely take
Brown will not back demands from opposition lawmakers to establish a U.S.-style National Security Council, proposing a new forum of security experts, West said. `It's a bold move by Gordon Brown and his government to set out a first security strategy,'
"Rather than anything in the past which was produced - very much defence, foreign policy, a bit of Home Office, the threat to the state - we are now much more looking at the citizen and tying the citizen into this. "Let's think of their vigilance, how
Demos wants British 16 year-olds to be able to vote.
The think tank Demos calls for an end to the “conspiracy of silence” on poor parenting today.
‘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.
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
Demos publishes '12 Tests for 2012' for a Conservative government
Mistrust in front line staff is harming public services, says report
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.
On 11 August 2009, Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne delivered a speech on progressive politics to an audience at Demos.
Demos launches a new project, led by James Purnell, saying the political Left needs to rediscover its idealism, pluralism and appetite for radical ideas.
New Demos research outlines a progressive conservative roadmap to ‘recapitalise the poor’