Mar 10, 2025 | Social history, Stories
Arguments against the death penalty had been advanced in the 1950s, with a particular boost for abolition resulting from the case of Ruth Ellis, a young mother who had murdered her unfaithful lover in 1955. The Tories reduced the number of offences carrying the death...
Feb 27, 2025 | in-depth essay
Sheila Byfield Sheila Byfield worked in the media industry for 43 years. Her final role was global Head of Insights and Research at Minsdhare where she managed both industry and proprietary research. She has been a frequent speaker on industry platforms and has a wide...
Feb 27, 2025 | in-depth essay
Phyllis Macfarlane Phyllis is a lifelong Market Researcher, former Managing Director of GfK NOP and immediate past Chair of the Market Research Society (MRS). She was previously Global Training Manager at GfK UK and has spent several years delivering, and expanding...
Feb 24, 2025 | Advertising and media, Brands, Stories
In the 2025 film Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy the much-loved lead character is still portrayed as a wine drinker, as she was in the original Bridget Jones’s Diary book of 1996 and the 2001 film. Back then her liking was for chardonnay, usually in a large glass....
Feb 24, 2025 | Politics and government policy, Stories
Recent US presidential elections have been extensively covered in the British press. What is interesting, though, is that in the past, British pollsters appear to have been more interested in attitudes to the election process and individual issues than in the...
