Near-on three months have passed since Julian Assange entered Ecuador’s London Embassy in a last-ditch attempt to evade extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations. In the interim, the Wikileaks founder has been granted political asylum by the South American country; made his first public appearance in ...
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At the start of the week, it was the tale of a naked billiards-playing Prince – third in line to the British crown (nieces and nephews permitting) – that had the Tweeting classes all a-chatter. At its close however, the debate over whether what Prince Harry got up to while ...
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It was quite a vision, wasn’t it: the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, suspended from a 45m-high (150ft) zip-wire for near-on ten minutes, after the wire he was ‘trying out’ stopped zipping and left him dangling above a bemused crowd of onlookers in Victoria Park. Seeing a politician of Johnson’s ...
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Do you post under your real name online? According to Mashable, video-uploading hub YouTube is attempting to inspire a shift towards just that by encouraging its users to post comments and videos under their full, real name. Or, if that option really doesn’t appeal, to at least register why it ...
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In recent weeks, Bella Diem, an acoustic group just-graduated from the British Academy of New Music, paired up with YouGov’s MusicLab to conduct a survey with an alternative edge – and find out what YouGov panellists, coming to their music for the first time, made of it We set up ...
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The World Shakespeare Festival kicked off on April 23 – the playwright’s birth/death date – with a programme to celebrate how the ‘world’s playwright’ shaped English literature, language, art and culture, and how his writing, imagery and allegory thrives still. Half the world’s children studies Shakespeare at some point, according ...
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The UK's Faculty of Public Health thinks alcohol labelling should carry highly-visible health warnings on bottles and cans to give people more information about the risks of drinking, in line with the ones borne by cigarette packets. We gauged your reaction in Labs to the Faculty's proposal, by asking you ...
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Remember when David Cameron wanted to assess the wellbeing of the nation through a “happiness index”? One of the main hurdles the PM’s idea faced – and indeed, as Labour encountered with their own attempts in office at measuring it – was that happiness, as a concept, entity or sensation, is somewhat ...
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Two months on from Boris’ reinstatement as London Mayor, we look at YouGov panellists’ experiences of finding – and keeping – somewhere to live in the capital. Do their experiences resonate with yours? Ahead of April’s London elections, YouGov’s polling of 1,138 London adults discovered that 1 in 4 of ...
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The National Gallery's Senior Curator gets involved with Labs as we ask art-lovers to help with an experimental comparison project A few weeks ago, we invited YouGov panellists to get involved in an exciting, collaborative project – a partnership between YouGov and David Jaffe, Senior Curator at the prestigious National Gallery ...
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