The BBC have announced their six-person shortlist for this year’s Sports Personality of the Year award, featuring Lionesses Hannah Hampton and Chloe Kelly, women’s rugby world cup winner Ellie Kildunne, darts world champion Luke Littler, golfer Rory McIlory and Formula 1 champion Lando Norris. But who do the public think should win?

16% of Britons say Norris should lift this year’s trophy, while 10% opt for Littler. McIlroy and Kelly are the choices of 6%, with Hampton and Kildunne each being the pick of 3% of the public.

Among those who backed a contender, there is only a small gender difference in choices between men and women, with 74% of men with a favourite backing one of the three men, relative to 69% of women.

Australia’s social media ban for under 16s has come into force this week, reigniting debate about the impact of social media, with some saying that it’s unfair to portray it as having a uniquely bad effect on younger people.

Indeed, Britons are divided, with 43% believing social media has an equally bad effect on people from all age groups and 41% thinking it has a worse effect on young people.

Perhaps surprisingly, there is not a huge age difference on this question, with 39-45% of all age groups believing social media has an equally bad effect on people in all age groups, and 37-42% of all age groups believing younger people are impacted worse by social media.

Christmas is growing ever nearer, with there now just two weeks until Christmas Day itself, but are Britons yet to get into the festive spirit?

Still, not really, with just 43% of Britons saying they now feel at least fairly Christmassy, virtually unchanged from the proportion who said so last Friday and up just seven points since the 1 December.

This compares to most Britons (55%) saying they are yet to feel particularly Christmassy, including 22% who say they currently don’t feel Christmassy at all.

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