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Ben Page

@benpageresearch.bsky.social
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Visiting Professor at Kings College London. Pollster, social researcher, trends and futures. Ex CEO of Ipsos globally and in UK (2009-2025) FMRS, FacSS etc

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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hugely important on right wing attempts to remove people from the next Census giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Who counts in Trump’s America?
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Who counts in Trump’s America?
Gillian Tett on the president’s bid to reform the 10-year census, and the explosive politics behind who gets included and who gets to decide
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Noticed this too. No coincidence
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
That was loud (govt fire alert!)
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The problem with #devolution: Burnham’s signature policy meets its limit: most want “more control” but 46% oppose devolving income tax powers vs 24% in favour. Business rates split evenly. 53% expect devolution to mean higher taxes either way.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If you have been reading about “Blue Zones” and their long lived people…think again!! “Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science” - The New Yorker apple.news/AHSYGTeh5S6G... Have to love a good counter factual!!!
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Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science — The New Yorker
A new book argues that many of the world’s oldest people aren’t so old after all.
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.
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The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign
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Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Interesting piece by @benpageresearch.bsky.social, picking up the thread on deliverism. Have sympathy for the view that public services should care about satisfaction as well as hard outcomes. On the other hand, I wouldn't say that focus has worked well in universities
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Is public service delivery really dead?
We will shortly have a new Prime Minister and, with him, yet another promise of better public service delivery and growth across the country. Every government...
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On Tessa Jowell and her impact on @andyburnham.bsky.social - and others inc me. She was always good value, empathetic, helpful to junior people like me and many others. You can always judge people by how they treat others who cannot benefit them in anyway. newsroom.observer.co.uk/cr/AQjcjBUQrcM…
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Great piece by @londoncentric.media Basically we need more HMRC activity on the ground on our high streets….. open.substack.com/pub/londoncentric…
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Who's going to be the Greens' mayoral candidate?
Plus: High street scam shops go to parliament • Palantir sues the mayor • Google's foxy HQ finally opens • Pret cornichon shortage latest
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Great analysis by Chris Clark - the more free your media - the lower the trust in government….
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
You can’t out Reform Reform - well we’ll see with Restore Britain. ……
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Well - 10 years on from #brexit some 52% now want to rejoin and 33% stay out. (Personal prediction - the 52% will need to be nearer 70% before it happens )
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I think @tejparikh.ft.com is well aware
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Great piece in @data.ft.com by @tejparikh.ft.com on how unwillingness to compromise by an angry divided electorate leads to instability and stasis
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Oh gawd….Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"The Devil was so tired that he had retired: not into a desert, but into the hearts of men. His presence was no longer necessary, for men had learned to do everything themselves, and better than he could." From Leonardo Sciascia The knight, Death and the Devil
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Voodoo polling at work :)
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Who is spending? The top 10%….
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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
All those fawning stories about Noma, its 'food innovation lab' and its 'social mission'.
The Times has independently interviewed 35 former employees, whose accounts trace a pattern of physical punishment Mr.
Redzepi inflicted on his staff. Between 2009 and 2017, they said, he punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls. They described lasting trauma from layers of psychological abuse, including intimidation, body shaming and public ridicule. Mr. Redzepi, they said, threatened to use his influence to get them blacklisted from restaurants around the world, to have their families deported, or to get their wives fired from their jobs at other businesses.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
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The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research | Brookings
A new era of agentic AI agents has begun. What does it mean for social scientists? Solomon Messing and Joshua Tucker discuss.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Trump supporters still behind him on Iran but only 27% of Americans per @ipsosgroup.bsky.social
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We have an “unregulated sexual economy” what does that mean - more regulations needed?
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Will AI ultimately cause a slump/ Depression? open.substack.com/pub/citrini/...
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THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
US govt stops collecting data that it might not want to hear …. www.notus.org/trump-white-...
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Federal Data Is Disappearing
The Trump administration has disrupted data collection on everything from homeland security, maternal mortality, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation and the economy.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The shift by social media owners from a chronological approach to one driven by engagement (and thus outrage) from c2012 onwards will be seen by future historians as a key event - discuss….
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Read this and weep. c1,500 homes out of 88000 annual target built in London in ‘25. “botched implementation and a failure to anticipate how policies would interact have created a perverse situation where it is no longer economical to build homes in London” H/t @jburnmurdoch
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I have just discovered the The Holy Roman Empire is still kept alive by an association of aristocratic descendants based in Belgravia and my day is complete #historyneverdies holyromanempireassociation.org
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Holy Roman Empire Association - HREA
Holy Roman Empire Association - Associazioni dei Nobili del Sacro Romano Impero - HREA - Established in 1963 - Nobility of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Joe - sure Res Foundation and the report can give you that
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
At the #unsungbritain @resfoundation event in Westminster - the change in WHO inflation is affecting is dramatic -
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Great essay by Martin Sandbu on how triumph of neoliberal globalism/Third Way neglected communitarian belonging - with inevitable consequences #populism giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The pessimist who became a prophet
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The pessimist who became a prophet
Philosopher Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw coming
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Well here’s Jeremy Clarkson on what happens after Reform win…
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Apple TV Rachel - simple if an Apple user (ps good to see you this week)
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Trump going “under water” on every element including immigration
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Your regular reminder that headline leads in opinion polls may matter less than details inside them #Reform #Labour
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
And in internet etc …I was on this disused railway track from the mid 19th century railway boom at weekend - which bankrupted thousands - am writing this using tech developed in tech bubble which also saw massive crash… looks like history repeating itself. Progress is uneven and lumpy….
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Great piece on the insane amount of cash being burnt on at AI at @openai vs @google - something has to give! www.adweek.com/brand-market...
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OpenAI's Ad Offering Is a Last Resort, and It Still Won’t Save the Company
If revenue were the only measure, Sam Altman would be the most successful CEO since the invention of electricity. But profit is the metric that ultimately counts.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Full text of @MarkJCarney speech here. Great use of metaphor to describe old “rules based Western international order” being an illusion breaking down…. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
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Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada
Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Seems appropriate today - Goya - the “sleep of reason produces monsters”
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“Before we have learned to deal with things in a given position, they have already changed several times. Thus, we always perceive events too late, and politics always needs to foresee the present.” Turgot 1844 H/t @adamtooze future scenarios are now the only way to think about politics!
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Off to Davos? You lucky lucky person. Here’s a handy guide on how to interpret what people say to you…. H/t @henrymance.ft.com
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Happy Birthday @Number10cat Larry - you have been a more permanent fixture than most of my politician clients during my career!
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Wow #Hamnet forgot exactitude but what a great film
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Great piece on why “purpose” is pointless open.substack.com/pub/hefferna...
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PURPOSE IS POINTLESS
Johnson & Johnson book poses questions about institutions that Purpose cannot answer.
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
What japes Pip, what japes!!!
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
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Ipsos in the UK @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Brits aren’t fans of Trump. 👎66% say they don’t like him (up from 61% in Sept) and 67% say Britain doesn’t need a leader like him. 👍27% say they do like him - and a similar percentage (26%) believe that Britain does need a leader like him. Full findings 👉 bit.ly/3Nj60VW
2 in 3 Brits say they don’t like Donald Trump, with opinions souring slightly from when he visited the UK last September
Base: 1,058 Online British adults 18-75, 7-8January 2025. c.1,000 British adults each month
Source: Ipsos Omnibus 
Qu: Which of the following best represents your opinion of US President Donald Trump?
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