Globalisation has hit the headlines in recent months, with the demonstrations in Seattle late last year and, over the last few days, at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington. But public opinion has rarely been sought on the subject.
The RFU recently commissioned a MORI survey on the views of the local community relating to Twickenham Stadium. This was done to test the perception, particularly at local council level, that there was widespread opposition among residents to increased activities at the Stadium.
The weakness of the Boo.com brand may be another cause of the failure of the high profile on-line clothes retailer, according to research undertaken by MORI Technology, the internet and new media division of MORI.
More than a third of school pupils (36 per cent) have been bullied in the past twelve months, a quarter (26 per cent) have been threatened with violence in school and 13 per cent have been physically attacked, according to a major survey by the 150,000-strong Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).
Pulse Check
Pulse Check delivers key insights from Ipsos' Political Monitor, Political Pulse, and Public Services data, along with reactive polling, to help you navigate the evolving political landscape.
How well do you think London's voters understand the complexities of the electoral system, with which they will be faced for the first time in the London Mayor and Assembly elections next month?
A research report released today (2 May) by Cardiff University - based on interviews conducted by MORI - gives a detailed insight into views of hunting with dogs in four selected rural communities, all centred around individual hunts.
Earlier this week Peter Kellner in his column in the London Evening Standard strongly criticised two aspects of BBC coverage of the London Mayor and other local elections to be held next month. First, he complained that the BBC's political journalists in London, who had commissioned a poll on the election from MORI [BBC London Live poll] had been prevented by Corporation policy from including any questions on voting intention; this is merely the continuation of a policy which we have criticised for a number of years. Secondly, he has pointed out a new restriction, which will lead to all the parties being required to run their election broadcasts before Easter, a full ten days before polling day. This, arises from the introduction of pilot schemes in a number of councils across the country, whereby a few polling stations will be open early, on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before the normal polling day, so that electors who cannot vote in the usual way will be able to cast thei...
