Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley was director of Demos, a London-based think tank focused on democracy from 1998 - 2006, and worked on a range of issues including education and innovation. He is now an author and policy analyst based in Australia.

People flow: migration and Europe

The existing European approach to migration does not match reality or recognise the evolving complexity of human mobility. In our People Flow pamphlet of 2003, openDemocracy and Demos proposed a model that does.

By Tom Bentley, Theo Veenkamp and Alessandra Buonfino

/ 4 Oct 2015

The immigration problem

Europeans cannot take pride in their continent if all they seek to do is raise barriers. A new international debate must take place. [Reposted from openDemocracy, May 2003]

By Tom Bentley

/ 28 Sep 2015

Please, not again!

Finally Blair acts. No skills. No English. NO ENTRY. This is how the front page of Britains leading tabloid newspaper, the Sun, greeted the Blair governments latest proposals

By Tom Bentley

/ 11 Feb 2005

Tall tales and home truths

The furious public argument swirling around British political and media institutions for the past year has often seemed a bizarre illustration of what a famous historian once called The Peculiarities

By Tom Bentley

/ 9 Feb 2004

Governance as learning: the challenge of democracy

Read Anthony Barnetts introduction to the Mulgan /Bentley exchange, charting the shift in governance under New Labours Third Way from we know best to we learn best An

By Tom Bentley

/ 25 Jun 2003

People Flow: Migration and Europe

Does migration erode or enhance national culture? This question is highly sensitive in many European countries. The problem with the existing European approach to migration is that official distinctions between

By Tom Bentley, Theo Veenkamp and Alessandra Buonfino

/ 30 Apr 2003

The immigration problem

People movement is part of human nature. For as long as we have known, the drive to explore new surroundings, flee from threat and improve our circumstances has produced flows

By Tom Bentley

/ 30 Apr 2003

Coming or going? NGOs in the new political landscape

Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have been one of the success stories of civil society and democracy for two decades. They have brought together issues of social justice, the environment and sustainability.

By Anthony Barnett, Ian Christie, Tom Bentley, Richard Burge, Rebecca Willis and Charles Secrett

/ 29 Aug 2001