Live politics
What people are signing, looking up and talking about, measured on eleven topics, in the United Kingdom and across the world, beside the latest official figure for each.
United Kingdom
What the United Kingdom is raising
Petitions in Westminster, Wales and Scotland, what Parliament and government are doing, what people look up, and the latest UK figures.
The world
What the world is raising
What people look up in six languages and post about in more than thirty, what citizen reporters in eleven regions write about, and the latest world figures.
The money
Who is paid to persuade
Who is paid, by whom and how much, to run political campaigns in the United Kingdom and across the world, read from the registers themselves, with a source under every figure.
From a topic to a question
How a rising topic becomes a question
The six steps from a topic that is rising to a question signed by an editor and put to the person who decides, with a card for each of the eleven topics.
The eleven topics
What it is for
This section is the listening half of Public Answers. It shows which topics are rising and where. A person on the topic desk reads it and decides whether a question should be written and put to the person who decides. The pages never write or publish a question themselves.
How it works
The pages read free public sources that need no account: petitions, government consultations, Parliament’s own data, Wikipedia page views, public posts on Bluesky and Mastodon, citizen media, Google’s trending searches, job adverts that mention AI, and official statistics. They count how often each topic comes up and compare it with the week before. They never record who said anything, and they obey each source’s rules. If a source refuses, the page records that and moves on.
Live politics counts topics, never people: it keeps no names, no account details and no posts, and every figure carries its source. Where a figure does not yet exist, the page says so rather than estimate it.