Step 1: Remove women’s access to healthcare. Step 2: Stop measuring maternal & infant mortality. Step 3: There’s no evidence that restricting reproductive rights increases the amount of dead women, girls, & infants. blog.ucs.org/dminovi/when...

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Our great and patriotic comrades at the Ministry of Agriculture are pleased to announce that our Dear Leader has solved the problem of hunger in the American Democratic Republic.

A giant in the world of electoral politics, polling and public opinion - his name pops up regularly in the "British General Election Of..." books for decades. RIP

Anyone who's studied British political parties, and especially Labour, will be sad to hear this news - Sir Bob was a true pioneer in the field. RIP.

Sir Robert Worcester, legendary pollster and founder of MORI (now Ipsos UK) has died at 91. He taught so many people so much about the value and importance of opinion polls in modern democracies - everyone in our industry and politics owes him a debt of gratitude.

Great useful balanced piece on Italy today thanks @billemmott.bsky.social - how “normal” is Giorgia Meloni? engelsbergideas.com/essays/giorg...

In a meeting with three ex ministers from different parties. Why are they so much more human and interesting after they leave parliament (ps I know - but still)

Does any one know one of these? Lol 😜 www.vice.com/en/article/m...

1930s italy restyled for Washington today…

This is vile. I cannot see how anyone on the left at this time could think intimidating think tank workers and vandalising their workplace for having different politics is legit. This isn’t liberal. This isn’t democratic. This is, simply, wrong and should be condemned as such.

This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...

“The average American, today, spends 6 hours awake “consuming content”, checks their phone 205 times a day (once every five minutes) and lives in a house with 17 internet-connected screens.” In praise of boredom….https://open.substack.com/pub/lynch39/p/bored?r=72tlt&utm_medium=ios

The rise of populism… and what happens once in power to the economy (via @data.ft.com )

News: freedom. From MORI in London (now Ipsos in the UK) as a 22-year-old trainee in 1987, ending up as the global CEO of Ipsos across 90 countries in 2021, it’s time to stop! Huge thanks to all the brilliant clients, politicians, and leaders and colleagues, many of whom are now lifelong friends.

The story of one year of British politics - #Reform nearly double their vote share, #Conservatives fall further and #Labour share falls fastest

This is just very poor - and likely affects perceptions: we asked people to estimate what % of prisoners are foreign born in 2017, and average guess in GB was 34%, nearly 3x actual of 12% then (and now!) Irresponsible to turn non-story into scary sounding headline @benpageresearch.bsky.social

Well @nigelfarage is the most popular politician in Britain / and Reform - with a handful of MPs - are ahead in the polls…4 years to go!

🇬🇧 Immigration is now the top concern among the British, overtaking the economy and the NHS, according to Ipsos The last time that was consistently the case was just before Brexit (H/T @benpageresearch.bsky.social) #UKPolitics #Immigration #Brexit

Nikita Bier seems to have lasted less than one Scaramucci as head of product at X.

Oh….https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/04/reform-councillors-boast-about-removing-trans-ideological-books-from-childrens-library-sections-falls-flat?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Rising wages, falling waiting lists: an unpopular take, but in a few ways, life in Britain has been (slowly) improving over the past year. But it doesn’t feel that way — and that’s a problem for Labour Free to read: 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/33c0...

Strange times in British politics - a 9 point @Reform lead

Get the lowdown from Ipsos CEO @benpageresearch.bsky.social, as he shares the highlights for the week ahead. 📽️Watch the video here: tinyurl.com/3ut5nz43

Young men and young women are diverging on their views of identity and equality issues …

"Truth, though powerless and always defeated in a head-on clash with the powers that be, possesses a strength of its own: whatever those in power may contrive, they are unable to invent a viable substitute for it. Persuasion and violence can destroy truth, but they cannot replace it” Arendt

To all the Gen Xer's out there (born c.1965-1980) - while there are MORE of us in Europe than Gen Z (born post 1995) it seems amazing Gen Z gets 4 X MORE media coverage - despite us being wealthier, and more likely to be in senior jobs - our report here ipsos-insight-llc.foleon.com/ipsos-thinks...

Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...

Repeat after me - you can’t out-Farrage, Farrage…. People will just vote for the real thing. Try something better

George Bernard Shaw: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” - still true today regardless of technology

What happesn to our politics as we become a post-literate culture? open.substack.com/pub/ianlesli...

Wow - we aren’t in a recession but economic confidence now lowest we have ever recorded in Britain. Lower than in Covid or 1980s recession www.ipsos.com/en-uk/ipsos-...

No degenerate art

Trump is putting up a statue to her!!

Bertrand Russell on Fascism - “first they fascinate the fools - then they muzzle the intelligent” ….

So true #Borges #books

What has happened to US reputation in last 6 months?

Changes in view of USA in last 6 months - have never seen anything this dramatic before….

At the excellent book launch of this! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... - worth a read to understand the roots of the mess we now inhabit!!!

Ok….

Fess up, who's not thought the same?

So what will happen to the UK economy? Currently we are as pessimistic as during the pandemic as we await impact of NI rises on employment yikes

Y’know, if they were better educated, they might actually know what a Marxist was.

Great piece as Germany celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Peasants’ Revolt open.substack.com/pub/katjahoy...

So proud of our Ukrainian team - working under very challenging conditions - are able to do this for @economist.com Zelensky’s ratings are still very high….

Great multi-source analysis using MRP model of rating of key public services for every individual local authority in UK by Ipsos UK - have a look at your area here ipsos-insight-llc.foleon.com/understandin...

BREAKING: Kia’s official Instagram account in Norway just posted this..

Never think progress is guaranteed

Reports in the Ukrainian press that Maxar had cut of the Ukrainians access to Maxar imagery, including commercial imagery, at the request of the US administration mil.in.ua/uk/news/maxa...