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Stephan Shakespeare

October 2013

  • A protester sprays a message on a government building

    Open government London 2013
    'Digital revolution needs a speed-crazed Whitehall throwing caution to the wind'

    Government is committed to openness, says YouGov founder Stephan Shakespeare, but needs to cut the unfounded fears about privacy

March 2012

  • matthew freud

    Matthew Freud takes stake in YouGov

    PR agency chief adds 3.23% holding in market research and polling firm to personal portfolio. By Mark Sweney

September 2009

  • Greenslade
    Ashcroft, a hands-off media mogul?

    During this week's Media Talk, the Guardian director of digital content, Emily Bell, surmised that that the acquisition of a controlling stake in the PoliticsHome website by Lord Ashcroft might be significant

July 2008

  • Stephan Shakespeare

    82. Stephan Shakespeare

    Job: co-founder, chief innovation officer, YouGov
    Age: 51
    Industry: polling, market research
    Turnover: £18.8m
    Staff: 104
    New entry

May 2005

  • Let the people choose a Tory chief

    Stephan Shakespeare
    Stephan Shakespeare: Leaders who appeal to insiders don't appeal to voters.

April 2005

  • They seem to be campaigning for the sake of it

  • First polling, then policy

January 2004

  • Politics can learn from Pop Idol

    Stephan Shakespeare
    Stephan Shakespeare: The public loves the idea of 'independent' politicians so why is it impossible for such people to get elected?

October 2003

  • IDS must land a few punches

    Tony Blair closed his conference speech with the words, 'So let it be done'. He appears to be some kind of god. When storms are brewing, he speaks, and quietens the waters. Even Conservative politicians seem in awe of him. When Blair spoke of preparing for 'a thousand years', they took it as a curse which struck them dumb.

August 2003

  • Can Big Brother save democracy?

    Stephan Shakespeare
    Stephan Shakespeare: If there is any hope of re-engaging the people with their politicians, it springs from the connections created by 'reality' television.

March 2003

  • Britons are polls apart

    Stephan Shakespeare asks whether Britain is divided over war.

January 2000

  • Yes, you can be loyal to a fault

    Take three quotes:

December 1999

  • Archer's most flexible friend

    Polly Vernon
    Through all the Archer farrago - the exposing of Jeffrey's multi-tiered misbehavings, Mary's burgeoning fragrancy, the reappearance of a raddled old (alleged) flame or two - one thing has captivated me. That thing is the fresh-faced, bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked official friend Stephan Shakespeare - at it again yesterday, fending off fresh allegations by protesting that: "Jeffrey is known as a scrupulous taxpayer."
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