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What United Kingdom is talking about

Measured attention, not opinion polls: what people search for (Google Trends), what they read (Wikipedia page views) and what the news covers and how (GDELT, every 15 minutes). For what people think, see the opinion surveys.

Today

Searching

Google Trends GB · 15 Nov 2026
  1. ufc new 5k+
  2. dana new 2k+
  3. beatriz mesquita new 500+
  4. donte johnson new 500+
  5. yousri belgaroui new 500+
  6. national lottery numbers new 500+
  7. russia ukraine war new 200+
  8. arnold schwarzenegger 200+
  9. blake lively new 200+
  10. christian bale 200+
  11. rosebank new 200+
  12. alateng heili new 200+
  13. juan díaz new 200+
  14. blg new 100+
  15. noskova new 100+
  16. usa fc new 100+
  17. jim miller new 100+
  18. bilal hasan new 100+

Reading

Wikipedia top pages · 13 Nov 2026
  1. Mauricio Pochettino en in 3 countries 64.4k
  2. David Walliams en in 3 countries 48.3k
  3. Jensen Huang en in 11 countries 44.7k
  4. Owain Wyn Evans en 35.7k
  5. Sharleen Spiteri en 34.4k
  6. Russell Brand en in 5 countries 34.4k
  7. Tyler West en 29.5k
  8. Lisa Maxwell (actress) en 27.4k
  9. Deaths in 2026 en in 3 countries 20.9k
  10. Avril Lavigne en in 6 countries 20.2k
  11. Harry Kane en 17.8k
  12. Nvidia en in 8 countries 17.8k
  13. MobLand en 16.4k
  14. Johnny Flynn en 15.8k
  15. Rivals (TV series) en 15k
  16. Ebenezer (2026 film) en in 3 countries 14.3k
  17. Laura Linney en 14.2k
  18. Lara Stone en 14k
  19. Noel Fielding en 14k
  20. Texas (band) en 14k

In the news

GDELT · outlets in United Kingdom · last 2 days
  • Manmade disaster implied 2.3k
  • General health 2.1k
  • Msm 1.9k
  • Medical 1.9k
  • Affect 1.9k
  • General government 1.5k
  • Security services 1.4k
  • Education 1.2k
  • Traffic 1k
  • Ussecurityagencies 924
  • Leader 889
  • Generalcrime 829

People

Sean Duffy · Markwayne Mullin · Steve Arroyo · Tim Johnson · Darren Hardman · David Walliams · Andy Burnham · Gavin Stacey · Russell Brand · Paul Coleman · Bryan Bedford · Yui Mok

Organisations

White House · United States · Google · United Airlines · Aviation Administration · Instagram · Us Federal Aviation Administration · British Airways · United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority · Microsoft · Spacex · A Delta Airlines

"new" = first day in the trending list; "N days" = trending on N of the last 14 days. Traffic is Google's rounded search-volume band. GDELT themes are machine-tagged from articles published by outlets in the country (in any language); people and organisations are extracted automatically and can be noisy.

Rising

New in the lists today.

  • Sharleen Spiteri
  • Tyler West
  • Lisa Maxwell (actress)
  • Avril Lavigne
  • Laura Linney
  • Texas (band)
  • Colette Kress
  • Noah Kahan

Evergreen

In the lists on most recent days (searches: 5+ of 14, pages: 10+ of 30).

  • David Walliams 13d
  • Russell Brand 18d
  • Deaths in 2026 28d
  • MobLand 13d

Topics in the news · United Kingdom

Share of news by topic

% of articles from outlets in this country, per day (GDELT GKG)

Topics are keyword groups over GDELT's GKG themes; an article can be in several. Collection started in Oct 2026, so the history fills up from there.

Source: The GDELT Project updated 1 min ago

This week vs the world

% of articles, last 7 days
TopicHereAll countriesMore
Crime31.8%22.9%more here
War & conflict26.4%20.3%more here
Jobs14.2%12.8%Jobs & cost of living →
Protest9.9%7.7%more herePolitics →
Energy9.0%11.0%Energy →
Elections6.1%9.5%less herePolitics →
Migration3.3%3.6%Population & migration →
Cost of living3.0%2.4%Economy →
Climate2.3%1.8%Energy →
Housing1.4%2.0%less hereEconomy →
AI1.3%2.5%less here
Health1.2%1.1%Population & migration →
Trade0.1%0.2%less hereEconomy →
Robotics0.0%0.1%less hereRobotics →
Self-driving0.0%0.0%less hereSelf-driving →
Source: The GDELT Project · to 15 Nov 2026

Around the world

Elections: share of the news, last 7 days

By the country of the outlet, not of the story. Tone is GDELT's average document tone (negative = more negative words). Countries with fewer than 50 (tone) or 200 (topic) articles in the week are left grey. Click a covered country to open its trends.

Source: The GDELT Project

Elections across countries

% of each country's news articles per day (GDELT GKG)
Source: The GDELT Project updated 1 min ago

Everywhere vs local

Read everywhere

Wikipedia articles in the top lists of 3+ countries on the latest day.

  1. Jensen Huang11 countries · 627.7k views
  2. Colette Kress9 countries · 199.7k views
  3. Nvidia8 countries · 213.4k views
  4. Alice Huang (executive)7 countries · 126.4k views
  5. Avril Lavigne6 countries · 109.9k views
  6. Russell Brand5 countries · 93.8k views
  7. Lisa Su4 countries · 57.9k views
  8. Deaths in 20263 countries · 97.7k views
  9. Mauricio Pochettino3 countries · 70.2k views
  10. David Walliams3 countries · 56k views
  11. Ebenezer (2026 film)3 countries · 55.5k views
  12. The Body (TV series)3 countries · 43.2k views
  13. Archive of Our Own3 countries · 39.3k views
  14. Grand Theft Auto VI3 countries · 26.8k views
  15. UEFA Nations League3 countries · 24.2k views
  16. Wild Horse Nine3 countries · 16.3k views

Only here

Top pages in United Kingdom that no other tracked country has in its list.

  1. Owain Wyn Evans35.7k views
  2. Sharleen Spiteri34.4k views
  3. Tyler West29.5k views
  4. Lisa Maxwell (actress)27.4k views
  5. Harry Kane17.8k views
  6. MobLand16.4k views
  7. Johnny Flynn15.8k views
  8. Rivals (TV series)15k views
  9. Laura Linney14.2k views
  10. Lara Stone14k views
  11. Noel Fielding14k views
  12. Texas (band)14k views

Related

Sources: Source: Google Trends (hourly per country, every 3 h per region) · Source: Wikimedia Foundation pageviews API (daily top lists; language editions for the world view) · Source: The GDELT Project (15 min) · Source: Hacker News via the Algolia HN Search API. Not included: Reddit and YouTube (their APIs need keys), X (no open API), China's Google Trends and per-country Wikipedia lists (not published).

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