‘It was like someone had died’: MCG focus group relives the Brexit referendum five years on

08:12 25th June 2021

Conservative cappuccinos? Labour lattes? How democracy has bled into everyday life - and why that’s a bad thing

08:27 17th June 2021

Making Common Ground: What we are doing and why

‘It was just a lie to get my vote’: MCG’s focus group on voter regret and feeling politically homeless.

07:09 12th June 2021

Why we should give each other the benefit of the doubt: Interview with Rob Ford

07:05 4th June 2021

The role of journalism in post-Brexit polarisation

04:12 21st May 2021

Why 'wet paper bag' Keir Starmer is still struggling to connect with people

06:50 14th May 2021

Polarisation and shared values - interview with Miriam Juan-Torres

06:50 8th May 2021

Dominic Cummings is 'like a woman scorned': MCG focus group's verdict on this week's news

06:50 30th April 2021

Why we sometimes believe things that are untrue

06:50 15th April 2021

How China disinformation campaign fits with Russia's plan to destabilise the West - interview with Julia Pamilih

05:38 19th March 2021

Applying the same approach to statues as vaccines could take the heat out of UK's culture war

19:07 17th March 2021

Could self-interest actually stop polarisation? Interview with Thomas Prosser

04:18 12th March 2021

From Meghan to Sarah Everard, this terrible week underscores the hollowness of International Women's Day

21:12 10th March 2021

Politicians can harness fandom - but beware Pandora's Box: Interview with Phoenix Andrews

15:38 7th March 2021

Why are Labour voters sticking with the Tories? The focus group chats tribal politics and career politicians

15:05 5th March 2021

What we were reading: vaccine nationalism, national identity, tribalism and accountability

06:50 26th February 2021

Political tribes might be fixed - but our lack of cooperation needn't be

19:42 23rd February 2021

Time to #DeleteFacebook? How your 3am doom scrolling can be used to suppress your vote: Interview with Susie Alegre

05:57 19th February 2021

Is party politics damaging our democracy?

17:44 17th February 2021

Keep Britain Arguing: How values can derail consensus on outcomes - interview with Polly MacKenzie

06:27 12th February 2021

Protecting the UK from 'toxic' US-style news is the issue of our times

14:06 10th February 2021

Social media fills the same space as pamphlets - that makes them publishers: Interview with Tom Tugendhat

07:33 5th February 2021

In defence of triangulation - and why it should not be the dirtiest word in politics

19:36 3rd February 2021

What we were reading: Covid misinformation, reasons for the UK's death toll, EU vaccine row and schools

06:27 29th January 2021

The people's views: Making Common Ground Discussions

06:25 29th January 2021

Holocaust Memorial Day: We must focus on the evil in Xinjiang, not the banality of Trump

19:34 27th January 2021

What's the best way to deal with conspiracy theories: Interview with Full Fact boss Will Moy

20:33 21st January 2021

Populists tear down journalism, but we need more news, not less

19:30 19th January 2021

How Brexit and Covid have made the future of the UK the next big debate: Interview with Matthew Elliott

19:10 14th January 2021

Solving populism is about more than inequality - it requires work on all our parts

15:47 12th January 2021

It might not feel like there's a way to end our polarised society, but there is: Interview with Prof James Fishkin

16:45 7th January 2021

We need to do more than just stop using the labels 'Remainer' and 'Leaver'

15:40 2nd January 2021

Simplism, technology and the narrowing of democracy

13:35 11th December 2020

Question Time's new format idea could actually save the show - and improve our democracy

16:10 4th December 2020

British democracy is at risk - but not from pandemic restrictions

16:22 27th November 2020

Political debate need not be a zero-sum game

07:09 17th November 2020

Dominic Cummings has forever altered our constitution - and there is more to come

09:08 14th November 2020

Boris Johnson must do more than cut anti-vaxxers' oxygen of publicity

09:03 10th November 2020

Boris Johnson can't pick and choose which democracy he backs

15:54 6th November 2020

Why Trump's voter fraud claims matter in the UK

09:08 6th November 2020

To fix our fractured society, we must understand why people voted for Donald Trump

17:08 4th November 2020

Why I won’t be cheering the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn

14:41 29th October 2020

Tory outrage over scumgate might be hypocritical, but it's time to take verbal abuse seriously

16:16 24th October 2020

Consensus can be found on climate change, but not through Extinction Rebellion

15:17 22nd October 2020

Conspiracy theories aren't new. But their prevalence during the pandemic has real consequences for all of us

13:20 14th October 2020