John Humphrys asks: should government accept all the recommendations made by Lord Justice Leveson about how the press should be regulated in future? David Cameron and Nick Clegg each got up at the despatch box in the House of Commons on Thursday to make a statement about the Leveson Report ...
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Record-breaking feats help Red Bull brand take flight In the last two months, energy drinks brand Red Bull has raced into the headlines on more than one occassion. It has benefitted both from Felix Baumgartner’s stunning jump from the edge of space, and a winning Formula 1 team. But amid ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, discusses Cameron's room for manoeuvre on the EU budget Conservative eurosceptics and Labour tacticians should beware. British hostility to the European Union is not as simple or complete as some of them think. YouGov’s latest survey for the Sunday Times suggests a nuanced set of attitudes, ...
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Many Brits say no prison votes, deport Abu Qatada regardless and bring back power from the European Court According to last week’s poll from YouGov-Cambridge, a majority of Brits think Abu Qatada should be deported from the UK ‘regardless’ of whether or not a fair trial abroad can be guaranteed. ...
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John Humphrys asks: should MPs or human rights judges decide whether Britain should allow its prisoners the right to vote? David Cameron’s immediate headache with Europe is over the almost impossible business of agreeing a budget for the European Union to last the next seven years. Before Christmas he’ll also ...
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Last week executives from Amazon, Google and Starbucks appeared before the House of Commons public accounts committee to discuss the issue of tax avoidance, which led to some calls for consumers to boycott big brands that are accused of not paying their fair share. But how is brand perception actually ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, discusses the mid-term by-elections Beware analyses of mid-term by-elections (including this one, if you like). They are prone either to exaggerate or understate their meaning. It is “this shows the government is on its way out” versus “they tell us nothing at all about the next ...
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John Humphrys asks: do we now face a crisis of trust and what can be done when trust breaks down? It is a commonplace observation that human relationships cannot function unless there is trust. It’s true of marriages, true of the relationship between children and adults, true of people who ...
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What do coffee shops, energy companies and the Chinese Communist Party have in common? From Starbucks to Centrica and the BBC, there are plenty of headlines this week to amplify the signature theme of modern business news, namely that the developed world is seeing an historic backlash against corporate greed. ...
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What can brands learn from Obama's data-based win? What can the corporate world learn from Obama’s victory? I see two big lessons: first is the data-driven campaign that Obama ran, which can be replicated by brand owners. The second is that attitudes and behaviours are much more important than demographics ...
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