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Increasing Support In Lewis And Harris For Sunday Sailings And Air Links
A poll conducted by MORI Scotland for BBC Scotland's Gaelic community debate series CUNNTAS (translated as "An account of…") suggests that a majority of islanders now favour the introduction of ferry and air services on Sundays. The poll shows that an overwhelming majority would like to see a local referendum on the issue.
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Majority of Japanese Public Does Not Support Whaling or Consume Whale Meat
Wide-held theory that Japanese support whaling and defend whale meat industry is disproved by leading international opinion research firm.
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Reporting the Polls - a Lot of Hot Ayr
"POLL SHOCK: VOTERS TO GIVE DEWAR A BLOODY NOSE. LABOUR FACE AYR CRASH - EXCLUSIVE BY RON MACKENNA" screams the front page of yesterday's Daily Record, Scotland's highest circulation daily newspaper. It certainly shocked me - but it was the accuracy of the reporting, not the data in the poll (a constituency poll by Scottish Opinion Limited ahead of next week's Ayr by-election) that was disturbing.
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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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Public Still Regards Doctors As The Most Trustworthy Group
The public's trust in doctors remains extraordinarily high despite the Shipman trial.
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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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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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Goodwill Hunting
Who matters to a company? And who do they think matters? How effectively does business believe it is managing its key relationships? All of this is revealed in a new MORI report, based on large-scale surveys of opinion leaders in Britain today.