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Transport In Britain: Latest Trends
There continues to be widespread dissatisfaction with roads in Britain, with seven in 10 British people (72%) finding road congestion a major problem in their local area. This is one of the findings from MORI's 2003 survey for the County Surveyors Society. Three-fifths of car and motorcycle users (61%) say traffic congestion has worsened in their local area over the past five years, compared with around half (52%) in 2001.
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Scots Support Increase In Windfarms
People in Scotland who live in close proximity (up to 20km) to a windfarm show substantially more support for than opposition to them. New research by MORI Scotland for the Scottish Executive shows more than half (54%) would support increasing the number of turbines at their local windfarm by half. Four in five (82%) would support windfarms taking a greater role in the generating of electricity in Scotland over the next 15 years.
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Young And Old 'In Synch' For PC Use
The use of digital photography and the emailing of digital images are popular among PC users — both young and old — according to new research from MORI for Packard Bell. A third (32%) of the over 55s use their PC for storing/sending and receiving digital photographs — almost the same as 15-24 year olds (31%).
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Top-level support for Foundation Hospitals
NHS chief executives are generally supportive of the idea of Foundation Status Hospitals, according to new research from MORI Social Research Institute. The research, commissioned by the NHS Confederation for its annual conference, was among 102 Chief Executive across a range of NHS Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities.
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Britain's View Of Russia - MORI reveals survey ahead of President Putin's visit
Russian President Vladimir Putins is starting to have a certain degree of recognition in Britain with nearly half (45%) able to name him as the Russian President, and most prominent spontaneous impressions of him are that he is a "good leader" and "good for Russia". These are the findings of new research from MORI, commissioned by the Russian Information Agency NOVOSTI ahead of Putin's visit to the UK later this month.
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Grey Power / The Grey Ahead
In recent years, many people have begun to notice that the UK's population profile is shifting towards those of a more advanced age .Commentary by Andy Martin
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Blair Cannot Count On Baghdad Bounce
The British participation in the American-led invasion of Iraq was, at the moment it began, possibly the least popular war with the British public of any in which British troops have joined since opinion polls first began. But no sooner had the first shots been fired than public opinion started to swing in favour of British involvement in the war and kept on going. Within a couple of days the polls were finding solid majorities in favour where previously they had found solid majorities against, a movement which even reports of civilian casualties, "friendly-fire" incidents and later widespread looting and lawlessness apparently did nothing to check. The scale of the change of opinions makes it one of the most dramatic turnarounds that MORI has measured.
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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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Young People And Citizenship
This week, the nation's children returned for the new school year and the first ever National Curriculum lessons in Citizenship.
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The Real Meldrews
A new analysis, produced by the MORI Social Research Institute for the Today programme on Radio 4, highlights a new phenomenon of a particularly frustrated and discontented section of society. But it isn't the young, nor is it the elderly like Victor Meldrew.