As a wealth of data continues to pour out from the 2011 census, we need to remind ourselves how valuable it is. Government suggestions that this census might be the last one are nonsensical and should be resisted Read more
The news about the UK’s return to growth has been over-hyped. As Lord Heseltine’s report underlines, urgent government action is needed to stimulate the economy Read more
Publication of the latest UK statistics brought gleeful reports of a reduction in net migration – the difference between immigration and emigration. But how reliable are the figures? Read more
The latest wave of labour market figures released by the Office for National Statistics painted a worrying picture of UK unemployment, revealing a decline of 45,000 jobs in the last quarter of 2010. Overall, 111,000 ‘general government’ jobs were lost in 2010, 1.9% of the total. Perhaps even more concerning is that 66,000 of these were in local government. Read more...
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