Nov 28, 2022 | Stories
Kantar recently published TGI figures reporting that 65% of GB adults have played either Lotto, Euromillions or scratchcards in the last 12 months – up from 55% in 2019. Perhaps the pandemic contributed to this, with a dabble on the lottery a welcome distraction from...
Oct 26, 2021 | Stories
The latest advice seems to be that, at present, it is unlikely to be worth trying to switch gas and electricity suppliers at least until prices have stabilised. In fact, TGI data from the Archive suggest that switching has never been a top priority for consumers; also...
Sep 15, 2021 | Stories
Written 20 years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and other US targets on 11 September 2001, this story asks what is there to be found in the Archive relating to those events? ICM conducted a poll for Retail Week just two weeks later, with...
Jul 20, 2021 | Stories
Hayfever is far more prevalent than it used to be. Data held within AMSR shows that it afflicts three times as many of us nowadays than in the 1970s. Just 8% of GB adults reported suffering from pollen or hayfever allergy in 1972; by 2019 this had climbed to 25%. The...
Mar 30, 2020 | Stories
As we hunker down, with most of us spending the majority of our time at home, it’s important to focus on our individual health and wellbeing. Guidance on exercising once a day is being repeated frequently. Might the current crisis spur the nation into taking more...
