'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
The full text of Tessa Jowell's speech to Demos on a radical new open politics for Labour
Demos releases The Liberal Republic and announces new Advisory Council
Make people Britain’s First Emergency Service, says report
Today, Wednesday 4 March, Demos launches 'Knowledge Nomads', the final installment in it's 'Atlas of Ideas' series. 'Knowledge Nomads' argues that migration is important for both Britain and global science and innovation.
Millions of people in the UK who rely on social care risk becoming “second class citizens” unless their rights are protected by an NHS-style Constitution, a Demos report warns today.
Demos is today unveiling a major project to research 'progressive conservative' policies at an event with senior Conservative and Labour figures.
Demos is pleased to announce the appointment of two leading researchers to develop a new programme of research tackling social mobility and inclusion.
Michael Gove, Vince Cable and James Purnell are the most radical politicians in Britain, according to a Demos survey released today.