In YouGov Labs we are always looking for new ways to engage with our panellists, and initiate debates that are interesting, informative and fun. With that goal in mind, we invited those of you with opinions on the future of capitalism to submit blogs outlining your critiques of the current ...
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Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader, recently announced that plans to reform the House of Lords were to be abandoned, following opposition from Conservative backbench MPs. He also said that as a result, he would be instructing his party to vote against proposed boundary changes that ...
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Deputy Labour Party Leader, Harriet Harman, said recently that New Labour’s decision to open up different forms of gambling in the UK with the Gambling Act of 2005, had been a ‘mistake’ – and that measures it had implemented needed reversing. Ms Harman told Channel 4’s Dispatches Programme that she ...
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Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber, in an interview with a UK magazine, recently commented that Brits are “more open-minded” than Americans. The Canadian singer attributed this quality to what he sees as a more relaxed culture in Britain, as compared with the US. He mentioned the UK having “sexier” TV ...
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Are you early to a party, do you arrive just on time, or are you the fashionably late type? Perhaps you’ve been kept waiting by a friend a few too many times, or maybe you’ve got a first date off to a bad start by turning up late. A nationally ...
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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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If you had a free pass to see inside one of the world’s power centres, which one would you choose? Would you like to watch Barack Obama take historical decisions one minute, and perhaps pack lunches for Malia and Sasha the next? Or would you rather see inside a less ...
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Education Secretary, Michael Gove has announced that academies will now be able to employ professionals or specialists in fields such as engineering, linguistics and music as teachers, even if they do not have formal 'Qualified Teaching Status'. The Department for Education said that the development would bring academy schools in ...
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Is paying tradespeople ‘cash-in-hand’ morally wrong? This was the very question Treasury Minister David Gauke raised when he recently attempted to expand the debate around tax avoidance, by looking at cash-in-hand as another side of the 'aggressive' tax avoidance coin. Mr Gauke, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, was ...
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From the romance of the rose garden speech to the bitterness of the AV referendum, it’s been an interesting few years in the life of Britain’s first Coalition government since the Second World War. Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservatives’ 1922 committee, recently suggested that the coalition partners would be ...
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