Explainers and other analysis to deal with misunderstood topics and translate complexity into clarity.
Economy, Business & Finance
The treasury says that mailing out individual statements this week telling taxpayers what their money is being spent on is an act of transparency. But are the letters really that clear? Read
Sometimes the way statisticians see things can be quite different to the way ordinary people do. During this week's Prime Minister's Questions MP Sir Bob Russell said: "More people live … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
"In this parliament we will have made £100 billion of savings while cutting income tax by £10.5 billion. In the next parliament we plan to make £25 billion of savings … Read
Take a look at the Y axis. It's easy to be misled by the scale. The graph from the website May2015.com is using a logarithmic scale: the Y axis progresses … Read
Immigration
"175,000 failed asylum seekers are still awaiting deportation" Daily Mirror "Officials cannot find 50,000 rejected asylum seekers" The Guardian "Officials have lost track of 50,000 illegal immigrants and failed to … Read
The Prime Minister has reportedly called for emergency talks to discuss an additional £1.7 billion payment the UK has been told it has to pay into the European Union budget. … Read
Education
On the face of it, today's GCSE results figures are alarming: the proportion of pupils getting five A*-C grades, including English and Maths, fell from 59.2% last year to 52.6% … Read
Via Twitter: "Liam Byrne at #spru says something like half of global (presumably biz) R&D is in the hands of 1400 companies. Is this true?" Liam Byrne has used this … Read
Economy, Business & Finance
"Workers on the minimum wage will be worse off if Ed Miliband implements a plan to increase the rate to £8 an hour" The Telegraph, 20 October 2014 It's a … Read
Health
This morning it emerged that four out of five English hospitals inspected by the Care Quality Commission had been given an 'inadequate' or 'requires improvement' judgement on their safety levels … Read
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