Guardian Life & Style (US) • Jan. 6, 2026, 11:44 a.m.

<p>The normal run of polling tends to be all vindictive kite-flying about refugees or magical thinking about climate change. Give me more curtain-twitching and fewer political questions any day</p><p>New polling just dropped from TV’s channel 5, conducted by More in Common, about a range of topics that fall under the umbrella, “every little thing”.

Would people use a weight-loss jab if it were free on the NHS? (Yes, if they wanted to lose weight.) Do people, nevertheless, think weight-loss jabs are cheating?

(Over a third of people said yes, which is to say, nearly two-thirds don’t think that.) Should grandparents be paid for doing childcare? (A third think so, which again leaves quite a hefty majority who think, “No, don’t be silly”.) Two-thirds think that adult children living with parents should pay rent; I’d like to have seen the wording of that question.

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