Senior Events & Partnerships Officer Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

📣 Recruiting now! | Senior Events & Partnerships Officer

We’re looking for a exceptional individual to join our Impact Team to help curate and deliver high-impact events, convening influential voices across policy, business and civil society.

📌 Apply by 11th May here: demos.co.uk/senior-event...

The Respect Story: A political narrative for public service reform Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

🤝 New Guest Paper: The Respect Story

"...the state should be on your side and you should feel it."

Author Tom Webb argues that public service reform needs more than structural change; it needs a political narrative -built around respect - that people can believe in.⬇️
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🚨 Hiring now | Director of Policy and Impact

Are you a creative thinker with the impact muscle to convert ideas into action? We're looking for an experienced policy leader, with a strong political network and enthusiasm for our mission to upgrade democracy.

Apply here: demos.co.uk/director-of-...

We're pleased to see the #RycroftReview includes two recommendations proposed by Demos: a central political ads repository and investigatory powers for the Electoral Commission.

These amendments, tabled by Emily Darlington MP, reflect Demos's ongoing work across the House to strengthen the Bill. ⬇️

Waves: Tech-powered democracy Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

Waves is one of the largest trials in digital democracy ever undertaken in Britain.

At its core, Waves is about finding ways for people impacted by an issue to work with local and national politicians and experts to understand the problem and develop solutions together. demos.co.uk/waves-tech-p...

🗣️ Resident's ideas will directly inform the vision of their new Local Plan - a legal document setting out how the district will grow and change over the coming decades. It will guide decisions about where new homes, jobs, green spaces, and services go.

❓How do you make sure development happens in the right places and in the right way?

This is exactly what South Staffordshire Council are asking as they become the second council to pilot the Waves model of digital democracy.

📣 Phase 1 of the pilot is now live: engage.sstaffs.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...

Home affairs select committee to hold “citizen-assembly style” events on immigration - Committees - UK Parliament Citizens with different views on immigration will be asked to come together to debate the trade-offs between legal migration and economic growth in a series of events being planned by the Home Affairs...

Insights from the sessions will help inform the Committee’s scrutiny of government policy over the rest of the Parliament, and shape a new Demos report this autumn.

❓Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/9550/yo...

💬 UK #immigration policy is deeply divisive - but it doesn’t have to be.

We’re working with the Home Affairs Committee to bring public voices into the debate through deliberative workshops on workforce immigration.

📺 Watch BBC highlights from our first session in the North East 👇

#PublicPolicy

How can shared belonging help build a new deal for democracy? YouTube video by Demos

📺 Did you miss our #CollaborativeDemocracyNetwork event last week?

Catch up on the conversation with Miriam Levin, Sarah Elie MBE, Bob Blackman and Jon Cruddas who explored what community cohesion really looks like in the UK, and how shared belonging can help build a new deal for #democracy.

Repopulating the Centre: How to build the practice for a new political centre Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

Read the full essay here: demos.co.uk/research/rep...

Trump is all your fault You may not like it, but it’s true. The political centre turned in on itself and ignored hard realities. To get rid of him and all he represents, we need that to change

"Trump is all your fault."

@thenewworldmag.bsky.social features an extract of Demos's latest guest essay 'Repopulating the Centre' authored by Gregory Maniatis, examining democratic decline and the failures of the political centre.

🗞️ Read the article: www.thenewworld.co.uk/gregory-mani...

Repopulating the Centre: How to build the practice for a new political centre Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

💬 “The centre is not an ideology. It is a practice - building things with people you disagree with.”

In this new guest essay, Gregory Maniatis argues politics has retreated from persuasion towards moral certainty - and makes an urgent call to “repopulate the centre” to build lasting change. ⬇️

North East voters asked for views on immigration by MPs A group of 20 voters are selected to discuss the government's migration policy in Northumberland.

“There's a way of disagreeing agreeably.”

Today @bbcnews.bsky.social covers our work convening local residents in the North East to discuss one of the most contentious issues in politics – immigration.

➡️ Read it here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#ParticipatoryDemocracy #PublicPolicy

Epistemic Security Briefing: The Elections Bill Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

📕 Read our Elections Bill briefing, produced in partnership with @fullfact.org, @anticorruption.bsky.social, @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org and Online Safety Act Network.

demos.co.uk/research/epi...

🎤Associate Director, Azzurra Moores gave oral evidence to parliament yesterday on the Representation of the People Bill, championing the need to sharpen the bill’s provision around epistemic threats like misinformation and political deepfakes.

▶️Watch from 16:58:21: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

📺 Live in Parliament

Tune in now to watch Associate Director of Information Ecosystems, Azzurra Moores, give evidence to parliament on the Representation of the People Bill - and hear our calls for strengthening the bill to safeguard #elections.

Watch live: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

Growing Strong: The sustainable farming dividend for economic and food security Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

We make the case for what we call “economies of coordination”: greater partnership and closer working practices between government, farmers and industry to unlock the far-reaching benefits of sustainable farming that the UK desperately needs.

Read the full report: demos.co.uk/research/gro...

The report, supported by McCain, uses original modelling to measure the potential impacts of sustainable farming practices - impacts that stretch far beyond the agricultural sector. ⬇️

Growing Strong: The sustainable farming dividend for economic and food security Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

🚜 New Report: Growing Strong

The UK’s food system is under strain, with food prices rising by +37% in five years.

Our new report evidences how sustainable farming could deliver powerful dividends for economic growth, national food security and household resilience.

demos.co.uk/research/gro...

How can shared belonging help build the new deal for democracy? Join Demos as we explore how to build social cohesion and shared belonging in a way that forges new relationships between citizens and state

📢 New Event | How can shared belonging help build the new deal for democracy?

Join us on the 25th of March for our next #CollaborativeDemocracyNetwork event.

We'll explore how to build social cohesion and shared belonging in a way that forges new relationships between citizens and state. ⬇️

Our BBC: A blueprint for a more independent and future-proofed BBC Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

🔗 For further reading check out our helpful resources below:

➡️ Full paper 'Our BBC': demos.co.uk/research/our...
➡️ Summary of recommendations: demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...
➡️ FAQs on citizen participation: demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Your BBC: Demos response to the DCMS consultation on BBC Charter Renewal Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

📺 We're pleased to publish our official response to the #BBCCharterReview consultation.

Our proposals seek to secure the BBC's survival, responsiveness and resilience in a highly volatile information environment - and crucially safeguard its democratic legitimacy for decades to come.

How can shared belonging help build the new deal for democracy? Join Demos as we explore how to build social cohesion and shared belonging in a way that forges new relationships between citizens and state

📢 New Event | How can shared belonging help build the new deal for democracy?

Join us on the 25th of March for our next #CollaborativeDemocracyNetwork event.

We'll explore how to build social cohesion and shared belonging in a way that forges new relationships between citizens and state. ⬇️

🗳️The Representation of the People Bill (the elections bill) was back in Parliament last week.

Associate Director, Azzurra Moores explains what you missed - and how Demos is working with MPs across the political spectrum to strengthen the bill and safeguard future elections. ⬇️

#TrustedElectionsBill

The real lesson of Gorton and Denton Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

This is not a left-right problem. It is a legitimacy crisis.

✍️ Ioannes-Fabbri Chountis explains why commentators eager to look at the Gorton and Denton by-election through the lens of party politics are missing the real lesson. One common thread united the campaigns of both the Greens and Reform.

❗Employment trends remain a cause for concern.

Researcher, Nicola Stokes reacts to the OBR's Spring forecast and points to new work coming from Demos on pooling the strength of local business networks to address national gaps in skills and job creation. ⬇️

#SpringStatement2026

The Digital-Democratic Doom Loop: Social media and the breaking of the state-citizen relationship Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

The paper, authored by @philtinline.bsky.social, argues that breaking this cycle requires:

⚖️ rebalancing public and private power,
📱 developing new platforms and algorithms designed to support epistemic security, and
🤝 deliberation and a renewed alliance between citizens and the democratic state.

Our latest guest paper examines the role of #socialmedia and private power in the "democratic doom loop".

The doom loop, first coined by Polly Curtis, describes a negative spiral doing ever greater damage to the legitimacy of modern #democracy.

Deliberative democracy folks: the UK government is taking inputs on the future of the BBC till 10th March - and they’re asking how to involve citizens more. Here’s the proposal I led for @demos-uk.bsky.social, including a ‘public lock’:

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