Earlier this year the FIA commissioned a survey of Formula One fans, carried out through their website. The results were published at the British Grand Prix last month. Bear in mind that it was a self-selected survey (though given that it covered 180 countries, it would have been difficult to
Today’s Telegraph has the first poll since the London bombings, the opportunity we have to actually gauge people’s reaction to Thursday’s terror. The public response to terrorist atrocities is unpredictable - following 9/11 the American people rallied round President Bush - his approval ratings went from
Unlike Live Aid, which aimed to actually raise money for Africa, the proported purpose of the Live 8 concerts at the weekend was to raise the profile of African poverty, force the issue onto the agenda at the G8 summit and thereby to pressure the G8 countries to take action.
The latest YouGov poll shows support for ID cards falling even further. Back in 2003, when YouGov asked an identically worded question they found 78% of people supported “the introduction of a system of national identity cards in Britain”. Polls by various companies during 2004 found support around the 70-80%
“If I were a rich man, daidle deedle daidle…” Even as someone who runs a website on opinion polls, I doubt if I had £750,000 burning a hole in my pocket I would blow the lot on commissioning opinion polls. Still, much to my delight Lord Ashcroft has done
There is currently an interesting discussion on whether the Conservative party should support or oppose further deregulation of Sunday opening hours on Tim Montgomerie’s Conservative Home. Rather conveniently, there is also a new ICM poll asking about exactly the same thing. 66% of people told ICM they regularly went
A new Populus poll on religious and faith issues is being published in the Sun this week - links to the Sun die very quickly, so I can’t offer you a link. 70% of people told Populus they believed in God or some form of higher power. This is
There is a new MORI poll in today’s Sun on the EU constitution - the first question asked was the exact wording of the government’s proposed referendum - “Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union?”. In past surveys, using the straight
YouGov have carried out a new poll for Iain Duncan Smith’s think tank, the Centre for Policy Justice, dealing with the future direction of the Conservative party. The poll firstly asks if respondents might consider voting Conservative at the next election - 42% say they might, technically enough to
There have been no voting intention opinion polls since the election, and they would be pretty meaningless anyway - until there is a new leader for the Conservative party they are not going to give much of an indication of how the parties stand. There have been a few political
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