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Socio-Cultural Currents Affecting Heritage Site Visit Considerations or 'I didn't join English Heritage to be a Salesman'
My day job is the study of the British, the public generally, the electorate, in political terms (although opinion polls that you see in the newspapers and on television is but 1% of our turnover - that's right, 1%, of MORI's turnover - but 99% of the publicity).
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It's Official: The End of the UK's 'Lunch Hour'
The UK's traditional lunch hour is under threat and could soon disappear altogether, as recent research found that only one in four workers are still taking the statutory one-hour for lunch. The national survey by break experts Kit Kat in conjunction with test Research, a member of the MORI organisation, discovered the average length of the midday break is now just 39 minutes.
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GM Field Trials - Three-Quarters Of The British Public Don't Want Them
Just over three-quarters of the British public are opposed to field trials of generically modified crops. In response to this public demand, Greenpeace is calling for all GM field trials, including the Governments 'farm-scale' trials, to be stopped and the money spent on organic research.
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The Power of Public Opinion: Princess Diana: 1961-1997
The power of public opinion was vividly demonstrated recently in Britain by an event which grabbed the attention of the entire world. Princess Diana, an icon of our time with probably the highest awareness level of anyone in the world, was killed in a car crash and at the age of 36, struck down in the prime of life. Her life was measured in the thousands of extra copies of magazines and newspapers in every language published, when she was the cover picture. Her death became a world-wide public event, with millions who had never met her feeling a personal bereavement.