Find out by reading the results of this interesting recent survey from the Centre for Macroeconomics. It also covers Brexit- why did votes ignore the advice of economists. What were their reasons? The website has details on the response of the economic experts to the survey as well as information on methodology.
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Impact of festivals project
If you are attending music festivals over the summer take a look at the blog from this research project which is being funded under the AHRC’s Connected Communities Programme. It is being led by Professor George McKay at the University of East Anglia. It is considering the cultural impact of festivals on local communities, impact of […]
Global Terrorism database updated
The total number of terrorist attacks and total deaths due to terrorist attacks worldwide decreased by 12% in 2015, according to the latest annual update of the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) from The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). The database is the largest open-access database including information on […]
Where does the UK rank on Digital Development?
Download the Digital index from Barclays to find out more. Based on a survey of 10,000 working adults in 10 countries, it enables a cross national comparison of skills levels and confidence. The six categories examined were: researching and evaluating information, communicating and collaborating, protecting data and devices, content creation and coding, solving problems and […]
What does Boris owe?
This site has been created by Remain activist Sarah Noble: Associated with Vote Leave Watch It seeks to hold Leave campaigners accountable. In response to the Leave promise that £350 million that was previously “sent” to the EU would be given to the NHS it has created the website What does Boris owe? which calculates the amount he owes […]
UK European Union Referendum web archive
A web archive created by UCLA and hosted by Archive.it has harvested snapshots of 46 key websites taken during the period of the UK European Union membership referendum from 11 May-20th June. They include official UK government sources, Remain and Leave campaigns. It is possible to browse or conduct a keyword search. Each entry has […]
Are corporate crimes serious?
Yes according to a new report Redefining criminality published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies which considers public attitudes to corporate and individual offending. It found that the majority of the population considered fraud by bankers and firms more serious than shoplifting. The study was based on a YouGov survey which sampled 1,745 […]
Gender balance in politics
A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance is trying to gather information about women in politics. The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site. This will be an alternative to IPU reporting which comes from member parliaments.
Comparing politicians
With the ongoing Labour Party contest you might want to compare politicians. A great source of free open data about the UK is theyworkforyou EveryPolitician covers almost every country in the world and data can be searched by date and name for each country. It can be downloaded in 2 formats: in CSV (excel spreadsheets) or […]
Race hate crime increasing
The Community Security Trust is a charity that acts to support the Jewish community by campaigning against racism . It collects regular data on anti-semitism. In its latest report covering January-June 2016 it recorded a 11% increase from the same period in 2015 with 557 recorded, 24% of which occurred on social media. It traces […]
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