Its a massive help: Benefits and pensions rise as two-child cap ends

It does not focus on quantitative polling, which is already largely automated through mass surveys. Instead, it emphasises depth. “We don’t ask people to tick boxes – they have a conversation with an AI,” Fontaine explains. “That means we can explore not just what people think, but how they think – how they build their…

As the world inches back to a pre-WW2 order, the ‘middle powers’ face a grave new challenge With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a “rupture” with the post-WW2 order. 25 Jan 2026