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Over the festive break, we'll be publishing highly graphic content. That's right: graphs, naked. We're very particular about labeling our graphs carefully so readers know what's going on. So for … Read
Health
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has stepped in to correct inaccurate reporting of figures on the number of new nurses who are recruited from overseas. Earlier in … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Trades Union Congress have replied to our request for a comment on their analysis of the growth in full-time employment. Employment is higher now than it was before the … Read
A petition has been started to put a stop to lying in Parliament. But this is an unusual kind of petition: one that disavows its own aim. Jolyon Rubinstein, co-creator … Read
The UK Statistics Authority has rebuked Nicky Morgan, the Secretary of State for Education, who claimed in Parliament last week that "... under the previous Labour Government one in three … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The TUC have published a report saying that only one in 40 new jobs is full-time, while the Chancellor says 85% of new jobs are full-time. Which is right? Read
Nothing enlivens a courtroom drama quite like the decisive—or furious—crack of a judge's gavel. News articles reporting on legal issues also tend to be accompanied with stock images of this … Read
Immigration
A quarter of people in Britain say that immigration is the single most important issue facing the country today, more than any other single issue. Read
The Office for National Statistics is a vital source of nationally important information. Unfortunately a lot of it is difficult to find, awkward to use and, at times, hard to … Read
Health
This piece has been updated The Sunday People this weekend reported that NHS England lost 1,800 nurses this summer. That's right, and if you count midwives, health visitors, and school … Read
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