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Pulse Check - July 2025

Little public support for doctors strikes

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.

Politics & Citizenship? Young People Don't Want To Play

Young people are turned off by government, citizenship and community. This is revealed today by authors Madsen Pirie and Sir Robert Worcester who unveil the third in their series of reports covering the attitudes and aspirations of young people. Their previous work, The Millennial Generation and The Next Leaders, revealed an ambitious and self-confident generation. Their new work, entitled The Big Turn-Off, is published today by the free market Adam Smith Institute. Based on MORI polls conducted among young people over a 20 month period, it examines their attitudes to government, citizenship and community.

IT Week: Online staff face controls

Employee misuse of Internet access and email has reached epidemic proportions in UK companies In an online poll of IT Week readers, 43 percent revealed that disciplinary action had been taken against employees for contravening company email or Internet access policy. While reasonable personal Internet and email use is tolerated in most firms, the survey highlights employers' fears that staff are wasting time online or, worse, will land their employers in court by downloading illegal material or casually sending defamatory emails. Leaking confidential company information in emails is also a concern. The survey was conducted during January and February by IT Week, MORI and software security firm Elron. The findings supported those of MORI and Elron's more general survey of Internet users, which was also conducted in January. The two surveys suggest that the problem is exacerbated by companies not communicating what is expected of staff. About two-thirds of companies said they h...

The State Of School PE

Results from a comprehensive survey on young people and sport commissioned by Sport England have revealed the latest state of primary and secondary school PE.

Storage Area Networks Are Key To Managing The Proliferation Of Corporate Data

Storage Now Seen as a Business Issue

Labour's Nightmayor

In ten weeks' time, in theory, Londoners should be voting for their first directly-elected mayor. Even that is uncertain: because the House of Lords has blocked the passage of the regulations that will govern the contest, there is even the possibility that it may have to be postponed altogether. If so, it would be a final indignity in keeping with the shambles which has pervaded all aspects of the proceedings up to now.

Women's Understanding Of Cervical Cancer

These are the findings of a new survey commissioned by Imperial Cancer Research Fund from MORI.**

Political Attitudes in Great Britain for February 2000

Saving Money Tops Town People's Millennium Wish List

One in three people (29 per cent) say that saving more money is their resolution for the millennium - while only one per cent of people expect to borrow more money, according to new MORI research by IFA Network.