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We all know UK has productivity crisis, right? (If not, see chart). And we all know part of the answer is "better skills", right? But how to achieve that...? 1/
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Thread: UK has surpassed the 100k deaths mark on most measures. It’s another one of those miserable milestones everyone hoped we wouldn’t hit.No datapoint can tell the stories of loss
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I’m dearly hoping govt releases some actual data on the lethality of the new variant.Holding a press conference to announce this ominous news alongside vague caveats about uncertainty is not
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Here's a short story about numbers, #COVID19, the scientific process and the misuse of science. And how it affects all of our lives. But it begins with these blokes, sitting
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My @thetimes column about the most important economic issue no-one is talking about: the collapsing fertility rate. Not long ago the UK had one of the highest fertility rates in
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Where does #COVID19 rank in the most depressing league table of all - the one comparing historic pandemics? We won't know for sure until the pandemic is over but we
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Duncan is right. Lockdown rules are slightly softer. More key workers. More COVID-compliant workplaces.It feels v plausible there’s less compliance this time around but is that really clear cut from
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There will doubtless be lots of attention on this number tonight: 1k #COVID19 deaths for first time since last spring.Now, a lot of people are dying, the number is mounting
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I’m diving back into the #COVID19 data.I’d rather hoped I wouldn’t have to but the stats are, once again, scary.However, I hope I can provide some context, since I see
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Which developed country would you say is facing the biggest economic slump of all? The conventional answer is the UK. Eg see this @OECD forecast. But here's a thread about
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Here’s a fundamental Brexit truth I don’t think we’ve discussed enough: the reason why Brexit has been on the front pages for so much of the past few years doesn’t
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Some have been irresponsibly suggesting that fishing, on which a Brexit deal may hang, is the smallest economic sector in the UKThis is just wrongIt’s the fourth smallest (of 143
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