The UK’s testing numbers are nothing to be proud of
The UK was slow to start testing large numbers.
The UK was slow to start testing large numbers.
Gaffe-prone employment minister Chris Grayling added to his opus of incompetence today; Shamik Das chronicles all his balls ups down the years.
Alex Hern counters Guido Fawke’s spin that stopping Hester’s bonus cost the taxpayer £320 million.
Alex Hern rebuts Grayling’s horrible misuse of statistics in the Telegraph, and asks if this represents the government’s real attitude to evidence based policy
Mark Pack presents a fantastic infographic containing all the knowledge you need to know about Liberal Democrat rebels.
Politicians refuse to tell the truth to voters, when they say that immigration is the cause of persistently high worklessness, writes Declan Gaffney.
Today’s figures show that while the recession technically ended over a year ago the period November-January 2011 saw unemployment hit its highest level since October 1994 – 2,529,000 people.
On Friday, Left Foot Forward published a guide to faking up a benefits story in five easy steps using publicly available data; somebody followed the steps almost to the letter in concocting a story in today’s Sun.
The chair of the UK Statistics Authority Sir Michael Scholar has ordered an investigation into the way the Department of Work and Pensions uses statistics, following a string of concerns over the nature and presentation of stats by the department – often in secret lobby briefings, with press releases and tables not made publically available on the DWP’s website for scrutiny – despite the coalition’s commitment to ‘throw open the doors’ of public bodies.
Today’s labour market statistics show that there should be real government concern about the direction that our labour market is taking, reports Nicols Smith.