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Drugs firm to refund cost if treatment fails
Jack Stilgoe comments on a drug for bone cancer which is to be provided by the NHS after its manufacturer promised to refund the cost of treatment in cases where it does not improve a patient's health.
Collaboration is the key to better services
Labour has been good at creating consensus around goals, but its great failure has been a lack of agreement about how to reach them.
Mind the gap
Despite thirty years of legislation disadvantaged young women are yet to reap the rewards of gender equality in the workplace.
National spotlight on Cumbrian scheme to put people with learning disabilities in control
Researchers from the think-tank Demos are in Carlisle today to meet with some of the 250 service users from across Cumbria who have been using the In Control scheme to manage their own care and support services.
A future Glasgow built on the people’s imagination
Glasgow 2020 was a two-year project facilitated by the think-tank Demos which aimed to look at three things: Glasgow's future, cities generally and how we imagine the future. The aim was not to have an insular Glasgow conversation, but talk and swap ideas
50 ideas for Brown's Britain
Five leading think tanks of the left suggest ten-point plans for the Brown premiership
Can we really soup up our city with acronyms, jargon and gobbledygook? Probably not
HOW GALLING it was for Glasgow's civic leaderstospendperfectlygood council taxpayers' money on a report about the future of the city and last week be told conclusions they do not want to hear
Glasgow is not short of ‘mass imagination’
Glasgow is not short of ‘mass imagination’
Tongue-tied
Britain is becoming increasingly complacent about its mother tongue, claims a new report from the thinktank Demos. As You Like It, by Samuel Jones and Peter Bradwell, argues that Britain cannot continue to rely on the cultural and economic benefit of hav
SUN, SAND AND SALSA. FORGET BARBADOS, WELCOME TO BRISTOL BEACH!
Demos transforms car park for six-week summer in the city
LONDON’S ‘BURN AND CHURN’ MENTALITY THREATENS OLYMPIC LEGACY
UK capital must learn lessons from Barcelona, says Demos
Ministers back calls to put users at heart of public sector innovation
New Demos pamphlet claims top-down reform is not enough to win public trust in services
‘Formulaic’ regeneration projects failing to improve quality of city life, argues Demos
People and neighbourhoods being left behind as cities chase tired out formulas for urban renaissance
THINK TANK CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT BACKED SKILLS AGENCIES TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES MEET COST OF RECRUIT
SMEs FALLING BEHIND IN RACE TO RECRUIT BEST TALENT, WARNS DEMOS
Influential think tank calls for radical shake up of Whitehall
Government must design public services locally or risk further distrust, warns new report
British attitude to English language stuck in an age of Empire, claims Demos
UK at risk of losing political, cultural and economic relevance by refusing to join ‘global conversation’
Britain needs a strategic vision for national security, claims Demos
Think tank claims that splitting Home Office will distract from need for better cross-Government co-ordination
ARTS AND CULTURE MUST BE CENTRAL TO UK RELATIONS ABROAD, WARNS DEMOS
GLOBAL POTENTIAL OF BRITISH CULTURE BEING WASTED SAYS NEW REPORT