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Lies, damned lies, and the lockdown: Stopping misinformation amid a pandemic

In the middle of a global health pandemic, misinformation can prove fatal.

Posted 30 Apr 2020

An election could happen at any time – electoral law needs to be urgently updated

Last week, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee published its response to the government’s Online Harms White Paper, where it called for urgent legislation to safeguard future elections. Echoing the...

Posted 11 Jul 2019

We need urgent legislation to bring electoral law in line with digital campaigning techniques

Citizens’ Juries could become the core of a revived local democracy

Deliberative forms of democracy are certainly coming into fashion. From the Irish Citizens’ Assembly that led to the historic repeal of their constitutional ban of abortion, to that which informed the Health and Social Care...

Posted 23 Aug 2018