Demos is supposed the be a think tank. The quality of the thinking that goes on there is a little suspect, judging by the thinking that its team members demonstrate public.
I have a couple of other posts related to their thinking:
- There was this: BBC Victoria Derbyshire – Sloppy Islamophobia Journalism, on the BBC News channel,
- and this, on Carl Miller, of Demos: Carl Miller of Demos Still Misfires on ‘Islamophobia’.
I’m not impressed by Demos.
This is their Twitter (X) bio …
“Britain’s leading independent, cross-party think-tank.”
Independent? Hardly
Take a look at their 2018 accounts, here: Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2018.
And, after you’ve tried to work out the flow of money in and out, go to page 30 for some of their suppliers of funding.
The Open Society Foundation. And who are they? You want to know what George Soros funds? Demos is one of his pets.
So, Demis is independent? Of what? Political persuasion?
Cross-Party? Hardly
From the Wiki page:
Demos was founded in 1993 by former Marxism Today editor Martin Jacques, and Geoff Mulgan, who became its first director.
In the run-up to the 1997 general election it was seen as being close to the Labour Party, in particular its then leader Tony Blair.
On 9 August 2006, in a speech at a Demos conference, British Home Secretary Dr John Reid stated that Britons ‘may have to modify their notion of freedom’, as a result of his plans, claiming that freedom is ‘misused and abused by terrorists.
This is Demos on Wikipedia.
The use of ‘Cross Party‘ is not sincere. I don’t see any evidence other than it being a far left Marxist propaganda machine.
And, Marxism has a habit of “modifying the notion of freedom”.
Ramblings 