Melissa Dunne

2 weeks ago | ipsos.com | Melissa Dunne

A lot can change in a year. In June 2024, leaders of the G7 (Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.) met in Apulia, Italy, as hope was rising that their countries were well on the way to recovery after the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis.

2 weeks ago | ipsos.com | Melissa Dunne

Key findingsMajorities in all countries say that LGBT people should be protected from discrimination in areas like employment and housing. Support for brands promoting LGBT rights declines to 41% (on average across 23* countries) from 49% in 2021. Just over 1 in 3 (38%, new across 26 countries) are for LGBT+ initiatives at work, while 24% oppose this. 69% now support same-sex marriage/legal recognition, with those in Spain (86%) most supportive and people in Türkiye (34%) least in favor.

2 weeks ago | ipsos.com | Melissa Dunne

Key findingsMajorities in all countries say that LGBT people should be protected from discrimination in areas like employment and housing. Support for brands promoting LGBT rights declines to 41% (on average across 23* countries) from 49% in 2021. Just over 1 in 3 (38%, new across 26 countries) are for LGBT+ initiatives at work, while 24% oppose this. 69% now support same-sex marriage/legal recognition, with those in Spain (86%) most supportive and people in Türkiye (34%) least in favor.

2 months ago | ipsos.com | Melissa Dunne

In five charts, Melissa Dunne takes the temperature of people in America, and its neighbours to the north and south, as the U.S. President’s tariff threats heat up.

Mar 11, 2025 | ipsos.com | Melissa Dunne

It’s now been five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. At first we were “all in this together” to “flatten the curve”; pretty quickly things went sideways. Below, we look at the interesting, surprising and, in some cases, downright depressing learnings from our not-so-distant past. Lesson 1: This too shall pass. At first there was hope that the pandemic would last a few weeks, maybe a few months, tops. That didn’t happen.