By: Louis Coiffait

Writing for YouGov-Cambridge

Higher education (HE) in England continues to dominate the headlines. After the controversy, riots and delays that led up to the 2011 White Paper I now see a host of other issues arising. Although most of the...

By: Umberto Marengo, Professor Andrew Gamble

Writing for YouGov-Cambridge

The results of the latest poll run by YouGov - Cambridge in seven European countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Denmark) returned a rather bleak outlook on the future of the British...

By: Peter Kellner

Writing for YouGov-Cambridge

For much of the 20th century, the most fundamental dispute in western politics was whether we should be socialist or capitalist societies. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the dispute came to an end. Capitalism...

By: Stefan Kaszubowski

Writing for YouGov-Cambridge

As concerns rise over the eurozone fiscal treaty, Stefan Kaszubowski and Peter Kellner consider the results from YouGov's latest poll of 68 finance professionals including Hedge Fund Managers, Investment Bank Traders, Analysts, Investment Bankers and Investment Fund...

By: Dr Joel Faulkner Rogers - Director, YouGov-Cambridge

Forget Greece; what would you do about Iran? Behind the 'Eurosis' that currently churns the news-cycle, foreign policy experts are divided and fearful about a lurking problem that could arguably displace the euro as the most pressing Western headache...

By: Dr Anne Alexander

Writing for YouGov-Cambridge

An online poll conducted by YouGov for YouGov-Cambridge (its new academic arm) days before the first round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections on 28/29 November provides a fascinating snapshot of voters pulled between the ballot box...

By: Markus Wagner, Jessica Tarlov and Nick Vivyan

Writing for YouGov-Cambridge

People are rarely objective. This is particularly true when it comes to what we think of politics and politicians. As much as we would want to be model democratic citizens who carefully consider...

By: Dr Gergana Yankova-Dimova

Writing for YouGov-Cambridge

The results of a YouGov-Cambridge survey show that the electorate votes for politicians for very different reasons than it thinks it does. This "Twin Peaks" scenario is best revealed by the huge discrepancy between people's description of...

Most Brits think the law should be changed to make squatting a criminal offence, according to a recent nationally representative survey of 1718 adults conducted online by YouGov.

-81% think the law should be changed, while only 13% think it should be left as it is.

Within this...

By: Jessica Tarlov

Writing for YouGov-Cambridge

Morning in Britain looks the same as ever. People get up, go to work, obsess about football, talk politics and the economy. But fundamental changes lurk beneath the surface.

Britons are now struggling in a trust vortex -...

Higher education (HE), especially here in England, seems to be experiencing unprecedented attention, scrutiny and debate at the moment. Late in 2010 the Browne Report, combined with the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) proposed major changes to higher education funding; tuition fees were to be...

By Sharath Srinivasan

As a litmus test for the emergent political idea of 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P), Libya has offered patchy results. For R2P's promoters, such as Professor Ramesh Thakur (formerly Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations), UN-endorsed and NATO-led action in Libya proves that "R2P is...

By Tim Horton

Recent polling from YouGov@Cambridge on attitudes to the state, tax and spending, conducted as part of a large-scale survey of UK voters in May 2011, throws up some challenges for both the political left and right. But it also highlights the...

By Finbarr Livesey

While three quarters of voters want to be consulted before key votes, only one third believe it is their responsibility to find out about the issues and influence their MP. British voters want to control their representatives but don't want to make the effort to...