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Pulse Check - July 2025

Little public support for doctors strikes
30 July 2025
Society

New research reveals 3 in 5 UK adults who have ever experienced loneliness have never opened up about it

The Marmalade Trust - Ipsos survey found that 61% of UK adults who have ever personally experienced feelings of loneliness have never told anyone they are feel lonely.
30 July 2025
Society

Smokers Pass Over Possible Symptoms Of Killer Lung Disease

1 in 5 smokers (22%) aged between 15-54 years suffer from a persistent 'smokers' cough and yet the majority (75%) do not realise it could be an early warning sign of a devastating lung disease - and over 4 in 5 hadn't visited their GP about it, according to a major new survey released by the British Thoracic Society COPD Consortium.
7 January 2002
Society

Euro-Referendum? Not In The Life Of This Parliament

Labour's 'Wobbly Thursday' was the whole month of September 2000, when first the kerfuffle over the dome and then the petrol strike led to the Tories overtaking Labour in the opinion polls for a brief period, then reverting to its comfortable 20 point lead.
5 January 2002
Society

The Economy And The Euro

The September 11 attacks in the USA were followed by a dramatic slump in economic confidence in Britain. MORI's Economic Optimism Index (EOI) at the end of September hit -56, its lowest point since the early 1980s, exacerbating an already precarious situation. (The August figure, -31, was already the lowest since November 1998).
4 January 2002
Consumer & Shopper

Give Up Those Bad Driving Habits For The New Year

Specialist motor insurer, Privilege Insurance, has compiled a list of the worst, and probably most common, driving habits that should be on the top of everyone's New Years Resolutions list to change in 2002.
2 January 2002
Society

Internet Cafe At Christmas Shelter Reconnects Homeless People With Old Friends and Family

New MORI research published by Crisis shows that for 83% of the British public, contact with family is the most important aspect of Christmas. However, Crisis has found that for many homeless and vulnerable people, the memory of family members or friends they have lost touch with over the years can be the most painful aspect of Christmas.
23 December 2001
Society

Scrooge Makes A Comeback As Crisis Opens its Christmas Shelters For The 30th Year

As Crisis gets ready to open its Christmas shelters for the 30th year, new MORI research reveals that the British public thinks we are more Scrooge-like now than we were a generation ago.
21 December 2001
Society

After Afghanistan, It's War - Over Public Services

The Prime Minister is riding high, leading European reaction and standing tall 'shoulder to shoulder' with President Bush, over the 'War against Terrorism'. So far so good, but what happens when it's over, even if bin Laden and the Taliban are defeated and Tommy comes marching home? What then? The National Health Service has already (end November, in MORI's survey for the Times [Political Attitudes in Great Britain for November 2001]) regained poll position as the issue of most concern to most people in Britain, pushing the war into second place.
20 December 2001
Society

The Truth About Marriage

Survey of married adults' attitudes towards marriage
18 December 2001