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Social media isn’t one thing: it’s a landscape. It’s not just one place where everyone gets together, we now have all sorts of feeds and chats that show politics in a different light. When people ask what social media is doing to public life, they're really asking a complex messy question about very different platforms. In the UK, people spent the most time on YouTube, Facebook/...

Responding to Rachel Reeves’s speech Harry Quilter-Pinner, executive director at IPPR, said:  “The Chancellor is right to cut costs for families this summer, but the cost-of-living crisis demands much bolder action. The government needs to wage an all-out war on bills.“Ministers should show working people whose side the government is on by capping rents, using competition policy...

IPPR has responded to today’s migration and asylum statistics from the Home Office and Office for National Statistics which reveal that:Net migration in the calendar year 2025 was 171,000, a fall from 331,000 compared to the year before. This is the lowest level of net migration since the Covid-19 pandemic. The fall is primarily driven by a reduction in immigration of non-EU wor...

The global landscape is changing rapidly. Instability is growing. Power is shifting. Alliances we once took for granted are in flux. New global challenges continue to surface. The result is a more volatile and uncertain world – a world between orders.The UK can no longer afford to do business as usual. This moment demands new thinking, including a clearer sense of what progressi...

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