British Future hosted an interactive debate at Stratford Town Hall on the challenges facing Generation 2012 to find out what can be done to avoid a “lost generation”.

As British Future heads off to one of the first Jubilee street parties of the weekend to celebrate with refugees in Brixton today, we have written to The Times in honour of the Queen’s Jubilee to acknowledge the contribution that refugees have made to Britain during the Queen’s reign.

Sunder Katwala details the results of the local elections and how they could shape forthcoming negotiations about the future of the United Kingdom.

British Future interviewed leading academic expert Matthew Goodwin who says the BNP will consider abandoning “ballot box strategy” after their worst election results for a decade.

A brief description of British Future’s new paid internship is available below, please also see attached document for fuller details.

A citizenship ceremony for the newest British passport holders should be held at the beginning of the London Olympics, said British Future director Sunder Katwala.

British Future director Sunder Katwala was interviewed by Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman on the subject of people

Find out more about British Future in this video of our first five years.

Britain did not have a brilliant Olympic Games when London last hosted the Olympics in 1948, in terms of the medal table at least. The host nation won just three Olympic golds , all in rowing or sailing, which along with 14 silver medals and six bronzes left Britain ranking 12th at the end of the games. But those first post-war Olympics since Hitler’s Games in Berlin 1936 was a time when the value of taking part was never better understood. The Houses of Parliament figured prominently on the official Games poster designed by Walter Herz, a Czech refugee from fascism, as Dr Cathy Ross of the Museum of London has noted.