This essay launches Re:State's ‘Re:Imagining Welfare' workstream. Revolutionary at the time, Britain’s social security system has evolved in ways that would be unrecognisable to its founder, William B...

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This week, EFF joined Foxglove, Human Rights Watch, and 60 other organizations in writing to the UK’s Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum, Alex Norris, raising serious concern about the

I am aware that I am facing stiff competition for your attention this morning. Many people who keep an eye on public policy and politics today will be not unreasonably focussed on the result of yester...

Yesterday, Cabinet Secretary Dame Antonia Romeo appeared before the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee to answer questions about, among other things, the reforms she is underta...

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If you are a keen observer of the news, you could be forgiven for thinking that politics is mostly concerned with the scramble politicians perform as they tackle one crisis after another.

Criticisms of the Civil Service seem to be a constant feature of our politics, with government after government promising to drive  reforms to modernise a Whitehall machine that is too slow, too siloe...

“But where we need vision, we have a vacuum.

At every point in the system and for many involved, the social care funding model is failing. This crisis is only accelerating in the face of an ageing population and the growing cost of delivering ca...

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When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone—from family photos to communications with your doctor to everywhere you’ve been since you first

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s drone program undermines Americans’ privacy and has failed to live up to its expectations.

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

Residents say the 'megashed' towers over their homes, dominating the skyline and blocking the sun.

Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Big Brother Watch exposes and challenges threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK.