Did the opening ceremony undermine the SNP’s attempts to break up the UK?
Douglas Alexander: “As Scots we may believe there’s nowhere better – but Friday reminded us there’s something bigger”
Yearly Archives: 2012
Double blow for Osborne: 52% want him sacked, and just 2% of Tories want him as leader
More than half the public want George Osborne removed as chancellor, a poll yesterday revealed, while just 2% of Tories want him as their next leader.
Too many women incarcerated in El Savador for suffering miscarriages
Hundreds of women are serving prison sentences in El Salvador because they have had an abortion or miscarriage
Mail back Burley in attack on opening ceremony’s “absurdly unrealistic” mixed-race family
The Mail went all Aidan Burley last night with an unsubtle race-baiting attack on the Olympics opening ceremony, reports Shamik Das.
Look Left – Citius, Altius, Fortius… It’s Games Time!
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
London 2012’s legacy: How will the UK benefit after the Olympic Games?
As of today, we the UK are officially the luckiest country in the world – the London 2012 Olympic Games are here!
Which way to happy: Data is a map, now we need to figure out the way
The first annual results of the ‘Measuring National Wellbeing Programme’ showed happiness and subjective wellbeing vary between groups and locations.
“Some Americans just shouldn’t leave the country” – Lewis turns the screw on Romney
Olympic legend Carl Lewis expressed the embarrassment and exasperation of his nation with a stinging slapdown of Mitt Romney for his anti-Games comments today.
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Want to know how to be happy? It’s complicated!
Trying to understand wellbeing though national wellbeing figures is like trying to understand what Britain is like by looking at Google Earth’s snapshots of it.