Skip to content
Theme : news
-
Angry young men
Writing about our new report Hearts and Minds in Saturday's Independent, Deborah Orr points out that the perpetrators of terrorism are overwhelmingly male. One of the reports' key recommendations therefore is that women should take the lead in the response to terror and political violence in Iraq, Israel-Palestine and now in the UK. As co-author Scilla Elworthy argued on Woman's Hour on Thursday, women should be chiefly reponsible for implementing a 'human security' approach which relies more...
from : samhintonsmith
25th July 2005
-
Local government for local people
Malcolm Dean picks up on our new report Start with People in his Guardian column today. He points to the Live 8 concerts and Edinburgh's G8 march as evidence that engagement is there to be tapped. He also argues that local government might be too big - that it's large size generates remoteness. Local authorities are apparently reassured that the new emphasis on neighbourhoods at the centre is not an attempt to bypass local government. But if local government is too big, surely the logical...
from : samhintonsmith
6th July 2005
-
Just the job
There's more on our new publication with Crisis on employment and homelessness Include Me In, this time on BBC Online.
from : samhintonsmith
23rd June 2005
-
Include Me In
We're publishing a report tomorrow with the homelessness charity Crisis on employment and exclusion. Called Include Me In, it'll be launched by DWP Minister Margaret Hodge. As the report's author Hannah Lownsbrough argues in today's Guardian, existing approaches adopted by both government and employers to helping homeless people back into work fall short. One approach could be to set up a dedicated 'insurance' fund, with seed funding from large companies, designed to offset the perceived...
from : samhintonsmith
22nd June 2005
-
Sir Bob's 'flash moment'
Madeline Bunting, in today's Guardian, points to the success of Bob Geldof, Bono and their Live 8 cohorts in creating a 'media spectacle' - which has more in common with marketing, advertising and PR techniques than traditional campaigning. She cites Kirsty Milne's analysis of the Countryside Alliance and others in Manufacturing Dissent, published by Demos earlier this year.Sir Bob's flash moment has certainly given the impression of a lot of support for the Make Poverty History campaign. And...
from : samhintonsmith
20th June 2005
-
More source?
Here's more on Geoff Mulgan and Tom Steinberg's pamphlet on the future potential of open source, Wide Open. Geoff wrote a comment piece in yesterday's FT, and there's been some further pick up on the widening horizons of open source elsewhere.
from : samhintonsmith
2nd June 2005
-
Demos Mauritius?
Everyday Democracy is travelling. As well as being covered in today's Independent, Nicholas Rainer has written a comment piece in Mauritius' L'Express saying that he thinks the argument is just as applicable there as it is in the UK: "Bentley?s trenchant observations for the British political elite seem tailor-made for their Mauritian equivalent."
from : paulmiller
2nd June 2005
-
Suburbia fights back... and we're on their side
Our Battle for Suburbia event this evening has caught the eye of BBC News Online's Magazine who are running it as their main feature today. They've managed to think of even more sitcom cliches than us!
from : paulmiller
26th April 2005
-
Westminster sourcery
The prospect of open source policymaking is explored in yesterday's Guardian, in an article on the Demos/Young Foundation report Wide Open. Recent attempts to create a more transparent and responsive policymaking process like the use of pre-legislative scrutiny are a step in the right direction, as myself and others argued in a Hansard Society collection last year.But the open source model offers real potential to enable those far removed from the Westminster scene to help to shape policy, not...
from : samhintonsmith
22nd April 2005
-
Manufacturing dissent?
Yelland argued that newspapers aren't 'manufacturing' dissent, they're merely tapping into a vein of public opinion. All well and good but, unlike politicians, it's not clear who newspapers are accountable to. And, more to the point, who should step in when newspapers overstep the mark.
from : samhintonsmith
17th March 2005
