More UK deaths than births expected every year from now on
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Robert Cuffe
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Robert Cuffe
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@BBCNews’s statistician. Number nerd 24-7-365.2425.
London, England Katılım Temmuz 2009
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More young men living at home looks a lot like a flight home after uni that mainly (but not all) fades away over the 20s.
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Should you go first in a penalty shoot-out?
Which lane would you choose in a 400 metre final?
And should you work on your tennis serve?
Some myths debunked in my article for AB magazine.
abmagazine.accaglobal.com/global/article…
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Our new guidance explains appropriate use of renewable energy statistics for Scotland during upcoming elections, with clarity on key measures like installed capacity, derated capacity & actual generation👇
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Prompted by a q on this line in a PQ from @anthony_reuben
"Figures have been rounded to 10 for presentational purposes. Numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systemic bias."
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Rounding reminder - to the nearest whole number:
0.5 = 0
1.5 = 2
2.5 = 2
3.5 = 4.....
Don't @ me. @ the IEE754 and round to the nearest even number.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
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40k small boat crossings so far this year is
- second highest on record
- less than half of asylum claims*
- about 5% of immigration*
*July '24 - June '25, latest figs
More on BBC's migration tracker: bit.ly/4rVv595
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@ShabanaMahmood @ukhomeoffice Is this a repeat of the claim that includes people who leave under their own steam?
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The Government has detained and removed over 35,000 people with no right to be here.
But this is only the beginning. I will scale up the removal of illegal migrants.
I will do whatever it takes to secure our borders.
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Strong +1. Civil servants made excellent technical contributions to recent UK Statistics Assembly.
Helen Miller@HelenMiller_IFS
😲Govt will stop public servants speaking in public Really bad idea Officials add LOADS to debates, e.g. explain technical policy details Cutting them out of debates will reduce transparency & quality of public discourse I agree with @DrHannahWhite : instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/govern…
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Among the new BBC guidelines taking effect in September is an expanded chapter on stats, data, polls and surveys
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Difference between inner and outer London v clear in this thread
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Tom Forth@thomasforth
But now let's add in outer London too. It's pretty much like the rest of England and Wales now. At the very lower end of car ownership at every income level, but not an outlier. So Hillingdon in London is just like Milnthorpe in Wakefield. On these two measures.
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The cyclist's illustration of Simpson's paradox
"Transport policy crafted for a non-existent average Londoner is doomed: the mean conceals a multimodal reality."
Joe Hill@jo3hill
🚨A tale of two sub-regional urban zones @NeilGarratt has written for the Greater London Project about the stark and persistent divide in car use between inner and outer London 🔗👇
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NHS data officer's network raises concerns about the way NHS England is rolling out its federated data platform. The idea might be sound, but the implementation is as ever getting bumpy. Thoughts?
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The head of Amnesty International UK claims in this Guardian article that "The evidence that [predictive policing] keeps us safe just isn’t there". But that's simply not true.
Let's look at what the available evidence on predictive policing shows …
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theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/f…
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