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Which Punishment For First-Time Burglars?
The issue of punishment for first-time burglars finds the British public divided as to what would be the best approach, according to new data from the MORI Social Research Institute. The controversy over the issue began when Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, said the average non-violent, non-professional first time burglar should not be jailed.
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Not Without My Mobile!
Almost two in five people (38%) in Britain say they cannot do without their mobile phone, according to research conducted by MORI for Vodafone.
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Homeless At Christmas
One in six Britons (16%) say Christmas is a time of year they dread, according to new research by MORI. According to the survey, commissioned by Crisis, commercialisation is the most unappealing aspect of Christmas with one in three (32%) naming it. This is followed by spending too much (29%) and Christmas shopping (20%).
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Cross Border Shopping
A third (34%) of UK consumers have bought goods or services from abroad in the past 12 months and of these three-quarters (75%) have bought something from EU countries, according to a new survey conducted by the MORI Social Research Institute.
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MORI Political Monitor, November 2002
Defence and foreign affairs have become increasing concerns for the British public, according to a new MORI poll for The Financial Times.
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Hanging In The Balance: Public Support For The Fire Strike
weNormally, when we discuss public services and their political impact, the Fire Brigade is not one of the services that immediately springs to mind - the NHS, education, the police, these are persistently debated and most of the public have frequent contact with them. When members of the People's Panel were asked earlier this year "Which four or five services on this card are the most important to you and members of your household?", only 28% picked the Fire Service, putting it in fifth place, well behind GPs (75%) and NHS hospitals (53%), though a little ahead of ambulance services (22%).
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Computer Users Suffer 'PC Rage'
MORE than two thirds of Personal Computer users say they shout, swear or are violent towards their PC when it crashes, freezes or when other problems occur, according to new research by MORI.
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CRM: The Myth And The Reality
Customer relationship management (CRM), makes sense, and most companies are now implementing it. Everyone in the company who faces outwards, from the CEO to the sales force, must be glad of that because it works, doesn't it?. But we've just discovered that most companies just don't know.
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Dissatisfied Tories Pose Problem For Duncan Smith - And Themselves
This has not been a good week for the Conservative Party at Westminster. And the results from our polling across the country will also be cause for concern for the party. For the first time, more Conservatives are dissatisfied than satisfied with the way Iain Duncan Smith is doing his job as party leader, according to the MORI Political Monitor survey for October.
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Consuming Passions
For many years I've been an interested observer of people power. Who are the 'movers and shakers' of British Society? What is their profile, how do they influence others, and what do they read. My first exposition of this interest was in 1972, when the long lamented magazine New Society printed an early article of mine, "The Hidden Activist", which examined what I termed the socio-political activists (S-PAs) in Britain who I defined as that c. 10% of the public who tended by their actions to stand out from the crowd, to be elected officers of clubs or groups, make speeches and write letters to editors, stand for public office and otherwise take part in an active way in order to influence the course of British political events.