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Challenges of the Demographic Shift
Foresight Ageing Population Panel
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Men Support Blair's Paternity Leave
The majority of men support new fathers like Tony Blair taking paternity leave after the birth of their children.
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Headline News?
The latest Gallup poll has Labour up two points since last month, the Conservatives down one, yet to judge from the Daily Telegraph's front page headline Friday (9.6.00) morning, its poll carries awful news for the government: "LABOUR'S LEAD OVER TORIES IS HALVED". What does that convey, knowing that Gallup polls for the Telegraph monthly and is published within a couple of days of the end of fieldwork? Surely that the government has suffered a catastrophic loss of support in the last month, and that this was the position as measured a couple of days ago. In fact, such an impression would be entirely untrue.
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Referendum or Opinion Poll?
Brian Souter's privately funded "referendum" in Scotland on the repeal of Section 28/2A of the Local Government Act reached its conclusion this week in an inevitable flurry of recrimination about its significance, if any. The Scottish Executive, in dismissing it, described it as a "flawed opinion poll". This is entirely a misuse of the term.