A year ago, when Prince William refused to sign a prenuptial agreement with his fiancée Kate Middleton before their wedding, the press called it a ‘romantic gesture’, describing Prince William as ‘loving’. However, when Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden married her former fitness instructor Daniel Westling, agreements were made to ...
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// Last week on PoliticsLab, we told you about a move proposed by the Westminster Council, which may cut the benefits of overweight or unhealthy people who refuse to exercise. Under the proposals, overweight benefit claimants could be prescribed exercise regimes such as swimming and fitness classes by their doctors. The claimants ...
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// The American Psychological Association and the United Nations have published a report which focused on the psychological research into forgiveness. The report concluded that forgiveness is of immense importance – not only in personal relationships, but also between war-torn nations. According to Dr Louisa Dillner, author of Love By Numbers, forgiveness is ...
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// As the end of December is fast approaching, most of us seem to be caught up in the preparations for the festive season: doing our last minute Christmas shopping, planning New Year’s Eve and writing up lists of potential resolutions we will (or will not) keep in 2013. However, ...
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// A lot is expected from a good leader these days. There are numerous best-selling books such as ‘First, Break All the Rules’ and ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People,’ aiming to transform one into an exemplary boss. In addition to that, many newspaper articles focus on the subject, and a wide choice ...
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// Recently, we asked Labs participants a question that has been relevant ever since the beginning of formal education: should parents help their children with homework, or stay away from it and let their children do it entirely on their own? A large number of participants expressed their views ...
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Smoking in cars, even with the windows down, creates pollution that exceeds “safe limits”, scientists have said. Children are most susceptible to any damage because they have weaker immune systems and faster breathing rates. A report by Tobacco Control journal argued “that there is a clear need for legislation to ...
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It seems Andrew Mitchell’s momentarily loss of temper four weeks ago, when he allegedly called police officers ‘plebs’ and told them to ‘know their place’, cost the now former chief whip his career. After a month-long effort to fend off claims that he had insulted police officers, the MP has ...
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George Osborne recently told the Conservative Party conference that the government will continue to fight the deficit and proposed a further £10bn worth of cuts from the benefits budget. Areas of the welfare budget that may be targeted could include limiting housing benefits for under-25s and restricting benefit increases to ...
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Recently, journalist David Leigh put forward the following idea for bringing in a broadband 'levy' to pay for online news journalism. Writing in The Guardian, Leigh explained his idea as follows: A small levy on UK broadband providers – no more than £2 a month on each subscriber's bill – ...
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