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Bank On Your Brand
Internet banking research from ICL/MORI reveals the British public prefer 'clicks and mortar' banking and most won't use internet banks based outside the UK
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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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Genetics Poll Shows Public's Confusion
An alarming 65% of adults in Britain are confused and unclear as to what is meant by the term 'gene cloning' according to a recent MORI poll on genetics and cloning commissioned by Action Research, one of the UK's leading medical charities.
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Girls Top The Class In Mental Health Knowledge
The National Schizophrenia Fellowship today (Monday March 12) launched new research showing that young women are more knowledgeable than men about mental health and mental illness.
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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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Attitudes To Illegal Drugs
Two-thirds of Britons believe that drug laws are not tough enough, according to a MORI survey on attitudes to illegal drugs for the Police Foundation. Almost the same proportion (69%) disagree with the statement "taking drugs is a matter of personal choice and should not be against the law", with 21% taking the libertarian position.
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Out of Town Shopping Takes on the High Street - For Now
Given the current popularity of out-of-town shopping, the High Street will need to look for new ways to compete, according to recent research from the MORI Socioconsult Monitor - a study of changing social values. Two in five British adults now claim to prefer shopping out-of-town with the same proportion saying they find it more convenient than going to the High Street.