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Labour and the 'Gender Gap'
The Labour Party (or, to be precise, the Labour Representation Committee as it then was) was founded a hundred years ago this week. The driving force behind the LRC's foundation was the trade union movement, with the intention of getting working men into Parliament, and thereby better to represent working class voters.
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A340 Surpasses The Competition In Traveller Preference Survey
Airbus Industrie's A340 is preferred for its seating and engine configuration by a five to one factor over its closest competitor, according to a survey conducted by UK-based market research company MORI, in January this year. The survey confirmed an overwhelming passenger preference for the A340's user-friendly seating features and exceptional level of comfort overall.
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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.
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Storage Area Networks Are Key To Managing The Proliferation Of Corporate Data
Storage Now Seen as a Business Issue
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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.
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Hit and Myth
The Daily Telegraph's lead editorial on 14 February, argued on the basis of recent Conservative successes in local government by-elections that the Conservatives are in a much stronger position than current opinion polls suggest.
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DVD Is Driving The Sale Of 'New Generation' Games Consoles
The new generation of internet-connected games consoles are speeding convergence of home entertainment. The MORI e-Entertainment survey shows that the strongest reason among consumers for purchasing internet-connected games consoles would be the ability to play DVDs via the console - 57% of those who expect to buy an internet-connect games console. Furthermore, 30% of those able to watch DVDs via their PC would consider purchasing a games console in order to watch DVDs on their TV.
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Section 28
A series of polls, first in Scotland where controversy initially arose, and subsequently across the whole of Great Britain, have made it clear that public opinion on Section 28 of the Local Government Act, on the age of consent for homosexual sex, and more generally on attitudes to homosexuality, are by no means as simple or as clear cut as some of those on either side of the argument would like to believe. On the one hand, there is a clear majority of the public opposed both to repealing Section 28 and to lowering the age of consent to 16; but, on the other hand, many of these opponents are happy to admit the legitimacy of homosexual relationships between adults.
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European Small Businesses Play Russian Roulette With Their Futures
New Study Reveals European Small Businesses Could Lose up to £1,200 Billion