The Future Laboratory

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Stat: Cost of living crisis hinders physical activity for English adults

A January 2024 Sport England report indicates that over 36% of adults in England are struggling to stay active due to the ongoing cost of living crisis.

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Retail

Stat: Britons cling to little luxuries amid cost of living crisis

As the cost of living crisis continues to eat into consumers’ budgets, Britons are still willing to splash out on things that bring them pleasure, as long as the price isn’t too high.

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Technology

Reddit ramps up its mental health efforts

Reddit aims to play a positive role in its users’ mental wellbeing through a partnership with the Crisis Text Line.

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Retail

Emergency-response retail

Berlin – Italian designer Enzo Mari has granted German company Cucula the rights to redesign and sell his furniture to raise funds for its refugee support scheme.

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Marketing & Branding

Re-con Man

Being a man used to be simple. You put food on the table, a roof over your head, and clothes on your children’s backs. Now at the start of the ‘female century’, never has more been expected of the man. And in the face of these new expectations they are embarking on a bold re-invention of masculinity.

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Marketing & Branding

Re-con Man

New shifts are placing men in uncharted territory. Rather than wallowing in the professed crisis of masculinity or the end of men, the Re-con Man is carving out a new agenda that allows him to recast masculinity in a positive, powerful and optimistic post-recessionary light.