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A New British Model?
There is increasing interest in comparing the different approaches to balancing economic and social welfare priorities across countries in Europe and beyond. This has led to new models that have attempted to explain and classify the current government's approach in Britain. For example, Will Hutton has talked about the "social democratising" of the Anglo-Saxon model, and last year Nick Pearce (Director of ippr) and colleagues outlined the "Anglo-Social Model". This describes the approach as an attempt to combine the economic performance and flexibility of liberal welfare states with the social protection and equality of Scandinavian countries.
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World Cup Penalty Shoot Out
England captain David Beckham is the England football team's most trusted penalty scorer, according to new research from Ipsos. The survey, from the company's i:omnibus service, asked who should take a win-or-lose last penalty in a World Cup final penalty shoot-out.
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Health Service Workers Are The Gloomiest Staff In The Public Services
Health service workers are markedly more disillusioned with their jobs and have less faith in their leaders than their counterparts in the education and local government sectors.
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A Little Local Problem — A Review Of The May Local Elections
The 2006 local elections represent a clear and embarrassing defeat for Labour. The party was relegated to third place in terms of the "estimated national equivalent vote share", (the generally accepted measure of the major parties' local election performance), with only 26% of the vote. It made a net loss of more than three hundred seats, and controls 18 fewer councils than it did before the elections. While this was not, as some had predicted beforehand, Labour's worst-ever local election performance — in fact, the 26% share was the same as in 2004 — it was a very poor one.
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Over Half Of Britain Has No Idea When Food Comes Into Season
New research from Gardeners' World magazine exposes the nation's lack of knowledge of British food seasonality. The magazine asked over 1,000 adults when a range of ten quintessential British fruits or vegetables came into season, but worryingly discovered that on average 63% of respondents didn't have a clue.
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Interim Management from BIE Interim Executive
Since 1999 BIE has annually commissioned Ipsos to undertake a poll of Captains of Industry. The aim of the poll is to ascertain their awareness and assess their views on executive interim management in the UK.
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Britain Lags Behind On Mobile Internet
One in three (33%) British mobile phone users want to surf the web on their mobile phones, but only if it is like the true Internet environment. To date only one in ten (11%) British mobile users have browsed the Internet on a mobile, compared to over one in four (28%) world wide*, according to new research commissioned by InfoGin, a leading pioneer in the field of web to mobile content adaptation. The survey of 900 mobile users, conducted by Ipsos, indicates that despite clear consumer demand, UK mobile operators have not put enough focus on enabling true web browsing on mobile phones.
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Ipsos Political Monitor March 2006
Questions on voting intention, satisfaction with party leaders, the key issues facing Britain, economic optimism, party identification, past voting behaviour, immigration, drink driving and personal finance.
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Reputation 'Crucial' To Ratings
Corporate reputation and perceived leadership quality are of crucial importance to financial analysts' ratings and opinions, according to a major survey on corporate reputation. Return on Reputation is the latest of Hill & Knowlton's Corporate Reputation Watch studies, conducted with Ipsos. In the survey, 282 financial analysts in North America, Europe and Asia were asked about reputation and its impact on their opinions and ratings of companies.
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The Public And Privatised Rail
After 10 years of privatised rail, the British public are still to be convinced that a train journey is better value for money or safer than under British Rail. New research[1] from Ipsos shows that half (52%) of British people say they have a favourable view of the rail sector as a whole, while 30% are unfavourable. As National Passenger statistics show the highest level of customer satisfaction since Hatfield, in terms of the overall quality of the service, more than a quarter (28%) feel the service is better now than when it was nationalised compared to one in five (21%) who feel it is worse.