The Australian Government, alongside its AUKUS partners, is implementing an ambitious and complex plan for Australia to field nuclear-powered, conventionally-armed submarines. In this paper, the authors assess whether the AUKUS Optimal Pathway is the best way forward to realise Australia’s strategic interests.

This report focuses on the relationship between the management of new technology and productivity, in particular, the extent of education and training in the West Midlands that might support managers in the region to better lever the potential productivity gains of this new technology.

The aim of this paper is to develop a series of proposals that could be adopted by government and policymakers to increase the power of citizens and communities. This is in line with Demos’ vision to build a 'collaborative' democracy, in which citizens, politicians, policymakers and other experts find new ways to work together in...

Universal credit (UC) is an integrated, means-tested benefit, that is replacing six ‘legacy’ benefits in the United Kingdom, combining out-of-work support with support for housing costs, incapacity and children. This report assesses the impact of the UC reform on households’ incomes and their financial incentives to work, as well as the practical experience of applying...

The United Kingdom needs a comprehensive green industrial strategy for the wind sector, bringing together deployment targets and the enabling expansion in wind manufacturing. The authors of this paper set out a series of coordinated industrial policies for the wind sector.