Ben
@benpageresearch.bsky.social
understanding people in 90 countries #italy #politics #trends #serendipity. Member ESRC at UKRI. Visiting Professor at Kings College London. Pollster, social researcher, trends and futures. Ex CEO of Ipsos globally and in UK (2009-2025)
..describes a lot of social media
“We must picture Hell as a state where
everyone is perpetually concerned about
their own dignity and advancement,
where everyone has a grievance, and
where everyone lives the deadly serious
passions of envy, self-importance, and
resentment.”
CS Lewis
“We must picture Hell as a state where
everyone is perpetually concerned about
their own dignity and advancement,
where everyone has a grievance, and
where everyone lives the deadly serious
passions of envy, self-importance, and
resentment.”
CS Lewis
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
..describes a lot of social media
“We must picture Hell as a state where
everyone is perpetually concerned about
their own dignity and advancement,
where everyone has a grievance, and
where everyone lives the deadly serious
passions of envy, self-importance, and
resentment.”
CS Lewis
“We must picture Hell as a state where
everyone is perpetually concerned about
their own dignity and advancement,
where everyone has a grievance, and
where everyone lives the deadly serious
passions of envy, self-importance, and
resentment.”
CS Lewis
Happy St Lucy’s day. Traditionally last night was longest night of the year (Julian calendar) love to think of kids in Brescia and Verona waking up to presents from her (on a flying donkey) today and wish was in Syracuse or Sweden to see how celebrations there go!
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Happy St Lucy’s day. Traditionally last night was longest night of the year (Julian calendar) love to think of kids in Brescia and Verona waking up to presents from her (on a flying donkey) today and wish was in Syracuse or Sweden to see how celebrations there go!
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Imagine paying £500,000 to be a founder-member of a private members club fronted by Liz Truss.
Robert Tchenguiz hopes Liz Truss-fronted club will help pay off debt to Reubens
Companies linked to financier owe property moguls £130mn for mortgage on Leconfield House
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Imagine paying £500,000 to be a founder-member of a private members club fronted by Liz Truss.
Loved this story about how historic businesses are being listed and preserved as part of protecting the character of Lisbon. Time for other London and other cities to do the same or should we let capitalism just do its thing? monocle.com/affairs/urba...
How Lisbon City Hall is protecting historic businesses across the city - Monocle
The Portuguese capital is working to preserve and promote traditional retailers through Lojas com História, a municipal programme aimed at...
monocle.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Loved this story about how historic businesses are being listed and preserved as part of protecting the character of Lisbon. Time for other London and other cities to do the same or should we let capitalism just do its thing? monocle.com/affairs/urba...
Walking home In Roma. Thank you @bsrome.bsky.social thank you for a lovely lunch today.
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Walking home In Roma. Thank you @bsrome.bsky.social thank you for a lovely lunch today.
Really interesting on Mamdani’s grass roots victory in NYC and his support - and use of - low key food/hospitality networks - we all have to eat and combining politics deftly with relatable small businesses = effective open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
How did Zohran Mamdani win over New York’s small restaurants?
A dispatch from NYC by Apoorva Tadepalli.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Really interesting on Mamdani’s grass roots victory in NYC and his support - and use of - low key food/hospitality networks - we all have to eat and combining politics deftly with relatable small businesses = effective open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...
📊Highest vote share Ipsos has ever recorded for the Green Party
📊Labour drops to 18%, equal to their previous lowest vote share recorded by Ipsos (in May 2009)
📊Reform UK drop 1 point since September, but Labour’s 4 point slide means Reform’s lead has extended to +15
📊Labour drops to 18%, equal to their previous lowest vote share recorded by Ipsos (in May 2009)
📊Reform UK drop 1 point since September, but Labour’s 4 point slide means Reform’s lead has extended to +15
November 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
📊Highest vote share Ipsos has ever recorded for the Green Party
📊Labour drops to 18%, equal to their previous lowest vote share recorded by Ipsos (in May 2009)
📊Reform UK drop 1 point since September, but Labour’s 4 point slide means Reform’s lead has extended to +15
📊Labour drops to 18%, equal to their previous lowest vote share recorded by Ipsos (in May 2009)
📊Reform UK drop 1 point since September, but Labour’s 4 point slide means Reform’s lead has extended to +15
Much smaller lead for Farage when it’s a straight head to head with Starmer. But even here, a lead…..
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Much smaller lead for Farage when it’s a straight head to head with Starmer. But even here, a lead…..
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Babe, what's wrong, you haven't touched your remembrance day pizza
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Babe, what's wrong, you haven't touched your remembrance day pizza
Nothing to see here folks, all completely normal
HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Insane Minimum 30.1 Brewon
NEW SOUTH WALES HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT EVER
Dozens of records smashed by even 4/5C(see below)
Yesterday incredible 44.9 in New South Wales
It's one of the top most extreme events Australia has ever experienced
Map compiled 100% by Cameron H (X)
Insane Minimum 30.1 Brewon
NEW SOUTH WALES HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT EVER
Dozens of records smashed by even 4/5C(see below)
Yesterday incredible 44.9 in New South Wales
It's one of the top most extreme events Australia has ever experienced
Map compiled 100% by Cameron H (X)
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Nothing to see here folks, all completely normal
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Sometimes, as a public service, I read a book so you don't have to...
... this is one of those times
www.ft.com/content/7ad4...
... this is one of those times
www.ft.com/content/7ad4...
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Sometimes, as a public service, I read a book so you don't have to...
... this is one of those times
www.ft.com/content/7ad4...
... this is one of those times
www.ft.com/content/7ad4...
One for all the #historians #curators etc. The most popular subject globally is….history #humanitiesmatter. And if you don’t study it you will repeat it….
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
One for all the #historians #curators etc. The most popular subject globally is….history #humanitiesmatter. And if you don’t study it you will repeat it….
Well he’s right about that…
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
October 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Well he’s right about that…
In one sense dramatic: Reform well ahead of Labour on understanding Britain, good team of leaders, and looking out for me - all key qualities of an election winner…but 2029 all to play for - 62% see them as extreme - and as result public still split on who will win - despite Reform polling lead
October 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
In one sense dramatic: Reform well ahead of Labour on understanding Britain, good team of leaders, and looking out for me - all key qualities of an election winner…but 2029 all to play for - 62% see them as extreme - and as result public still split on who will win - despite Reform polling lead
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Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.
October 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.
74% of the British said they did not care whether the new Archbishop is male or female - so if you do, you are definitely in a minority
October 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
74% of the British said they did not care whether the new Archbishop is male or female - so if you do, you are definitely in a minority
Any recommendations on who to follow/starter packs for
Rome
Renaissance
Baroque art
Early modern history
Thanks all (have politics and polls covered )
Rome
Renaissance
Baroque art
Early modern history
Thanks all (have politics and polls covered )
October 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Any recommendations on who to follow/starter packs for
Rome
Renaissance
Baroque art
Early modern history
Thanks all (have politics and polls covered )
Rome
Renaissance
Baroque art
Early modern history
Thanks all (have politics and polls covered )
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For all those off to Liverpool. Lowest #Labour vote share since June 2009 . Worst ever rating for a sitting PM since we started on this measure in 1977…. Tories can’t mock - they have worst rating ever measured (since 1976) ….#strangetimes ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opini…
September 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
For all those off to Liverpool. Lowest #Labour vote share since June 2009 . Worst ever rating for a sitting PM since we started on this measure in 1977…. Tories can’t mock - they have worst rating ever measured (since 1976) ….#strangetimes ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opini…
I do find this a bit disturbing - the estimate is that Gen Z will ultimately spend 25 YEARS of their lives looking at a screen….. reminded me of one of the stories in Sum (40 tales of the Afterlife by David Eagleman)
September 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I do find this a bit disturbing - the estimate is that Gen Z will ultimately spend 25 YEARS of their lives looking at a screen….. reminded me of one of the stories in Sum (40 tales of the Afterlife by David Eagleman)
For all those off to Liverpool. Lowest #Labour vote share since June 2009 . Worst ever rating for a sitting PM since we started on this measure in 1977…. Tories can’t mock - they have worst rating ever measured (since 1976) ….#strangetimes ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opini…
September 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
For all those off to Liverpool. Lowest #Labour vote share since June 2009 . Worst ever rating for a sitting PM since we started on this measure in 1977…. Tories can’t mock - they have worst rating ever measured (since 1976) ….#strangetimes ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opini…
Good morning from italy
September 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Good morning from italy