Last year Open Road produced a report on the level of influence wielded by different media outlets and commentators. We’ve spotted another interesting analysis by Rippla which compares the amount of news content readers are sharing on social media. Comparing the top 10 UK news and broadcast media (It doesn’t include The Times which is [...]

In a week where bunting sales have outstripped umbrellas, it seems proper to use this blog to discuss another great British institution – Marks and Spencer. I remember all too well the news from the continent in 2001 that M&S would be shutting its doors to the Champs Elysees and running home to England, tail [...]

As an office full of political geeks, this particular blog by Jonathan Haidt caught our eye today. It examines the reasons people vote left or right (or liberal or right in America), and concludes that the judgements make are moral not rational.  While this argument has been around for some time (for instance in the excellent [...]

It has been a month of anti-climax. While April managed to be the wettest since records began, May could only lay claim to being the coldest for 100 years. Or the dampest since 1983. It was quite a poor effort. The month’s political events seemed affected by the same malaise.  The race to be Mayor [...]