Hello and welcome to the TCC Weekly – the Friday bulletin for people who know their Morris Dancing from their Maurice Glasman.
This week we have the seven reasons why relationships fail. There are the tragic photos from George Galloway’s faltering campaign, and we swap our white coats for England shirts by putting St George’s Day in the Values Lab.
And of course, there’s Charlie’s Attic, the part of the weekly where we take you around the maypole and back. This week it includes Chinese golf and the latest on Boaty McBoatface.
David Evans
Director
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Moving on hastily to less controversial territory: is your glass half full or half empty? Research this week suggests that even if you’re in the former group, you’re still likely to attend more to the negative when it comes to relationships, offering seven reasons relationships end. While we’re on the subject of relationship breakers/makers, click here to find out why social media may help you rebuild your relationship, and here to find out why the opposite may also be true.
John Woodcock invites Corbynistas to come and bend his ear (in exchange for door-knocking)
McDonalds and the Labour Party: are they to be or not to be? The bearded one takes a stance. And on the topic of food, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger reveals unsettling statistics on underweight children entering primary school.
Elsewhere in education, parents may be alarmed by figures which show that geography can dramatically impact the opportunity to have first say on a child’s primary school, and CentreForum publishes its State of the Nation report on Children and Young People’s Mental Health.
NHS England backtrack following public outcry regarding the funding of a HIV-prevention drug
The Values Lab is based on the Values Modes segmentation tool – created by Cultural Dynamics and used by TCC– which divides the population into ethics-driven Pioneers, aspirational Prospectors, and threat-wary Settlers. Take the test here to see which you are.
The novelty calendar that adorns the Values Lab’s heavily reinforced walls informs us that it’s St George’s Day this weekend. To celebrate England’s favourite dragon slayer, we looked at national pride through Values-tinted glasses. Which group lives for Queen and Country?
As you might expect, tradition-attuned Settlers are very likely (25%) to be proud of their British-ness, while Pioneers are less bothered (14%) about British history and national pride. Prospectors, interestingly, are divided down the middle – 16% of socially liberal Prospectors (bottom left) fit the statement above, but 22% of socially conservative Prospectors (top left) do so, reaching almost Settler levels of patriotism.
And last but not least, Charlie’s Attic, the undiscerning all-English zone, where we’re as happy quoting Shakespeare as we are throwing plastic chairs when England go out: