Despite any potential impact from Climategate, Britons still trust scientists and climate experts more than other groups to tell the truth about climate change. Results also show a stable and overwhelming consensus who believe the planet is warming and that humans are either wholly or partly to blame. This is ...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, latest commentary - Thatcher: time to move on As I returned from the Himalayas only at the weekend, I can’t be sure that the comments below are wholly original; but a quick search via Google News suggests that I am the first commentator in the past ...
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Margaret Thatcher and public opinion: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times Over the last few years YouGov has asked the British public many different questions about Margaret Thatcher and her legacy. For example, more than once we have asked people their opinion on who ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, discusses the huge impact of the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death on social media websites. Social media, as we now know it, wasn’t even invented when Margaret Thatcher was in power. And yet nearly a quarter century after she left Downing Street news of her death ...
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Our first poll looking back at the legacy of Margaret Thatcher since her death this week shows the majority of people think she was a great or good Prime Minister (indeed, 28% see her as the greatest of Britain's post war Prime Ministers), but that a significant minority regard her ...
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John Humphrys asks: do the threats posed by Iran and North Korea gaining nuclear weapons mean that Britain too must remain a nuclear power? Yet again talks aimed at preventing Iran from building its own nuclear weapons have broken down. Meanwhile, North Korea is rumoured to be about to undertake ...
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John Humphrys asks: are the new reforms to state benefits penalising the poor or are they creating a fairer system and making work pay? This month, as radical changes to the welfare system come into effect, the political row over state benefits has heated up. Labour and the churches have ...
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British public opinion on drones and targeted killing has been oversimplified; Britons are divided on whether current drone policies are ultimately helping or hindering Western security, but there’s also a distinction between attitudes to the weapon and the way it’s used, which go beyond binary moral judgements about ‘drones-good’ or ...
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YouGov CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, discusses the example of BlackBerry and suggests that it should spread its TV adverts far and wide. ADVERTISERS have always known that adverts influence viewers’ perceptions even when they are not consciously remembered. Last week in this column I revealed evidence of this so-called Higgs-Boson for ...
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John Humphrys asks: What does David Miliband’s departure mean for the Labour Party? David Miliband’s decision to leave British politics and take up an international job in New York marks the end, at least for the time being and possibly forever, of a political career many saw as likely to ...
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