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Thread: In a factory somewhere on the outskirts of Birmingham sits a machine which tells you rather a lot about the UK economy & where it's heading. It cuts &

Rare earths: everything you ever wanted to knowOr rather: everything never wanted to know but really ought to know, especially since the device you're reading this on almost certainly has

Anyone fancy an #Earthday data thread?One of my frustrations with this topic is that all too often it’s portrayed in enormously over-simplistic terms: We need to stop flying! Cutting

One thing we’ve learnt about #COVID stories: Often something that looks too scary to be true isn’t quite true when you look at the small print.Often something that looks too

Transparency, worst case scenarios, & why govt is treading a dangerous path over #COVID19.This is the longest thread I've ever posted.But I think it may be among the most important.Please

How does one reconcile this with the fact that case growth was actually SLOWER than in that "worst case scenario" (on basis of pretty much every measure inc @ONS survey)?As

Q: How do you make your #COVID19 situation look less scary, without actually combating the disease?A: Fiddle with the data.That's what's just happened here in England. Test & Trace have

Exclusive: UK govt is paying management consultants the equivalent of million and a half pound salaries to work on Test & Trace.I’ve seen documents showing senior staff from Boston Consulting

Thread: Throughout the pandemic there's been plenty of attention focused on #COVID19 deaths and on what’s happened in hospitals and in care homes - for obvious and understandable reasons. But

How ON EARTH did the government manage to temporarily mislay 16,000 test results, putting thousands of people at risk of contracting #COVID19?I try to explain it here.Warning: you may find

Leaving aside the implications for what we know about the spread of #COVID19, which we'll get to in a second, THIS, simply as a story about management of data, is

Belatedly catching up with Test & Trace data from yday. Good news is on most metrics the performance of Pillar 2 tests (the private bit of the testing network) have