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    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      John Burn-Murdoch
      The Anglosphere needs to learn to love apartment living

      Housebuilding rates in English-speaking states have fallen behind the rest of the developed world

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health

      Evidence of the catastrophic effects of increased screen-time is now overwhelming

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      John Burn-Murdoch
      America’s obsession with big cars has fatal consequences

      The US relationship with automobiles is costing thousands of lives

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Alan Smith
      What chimpanzees tell us about how humans see data

      People are routinely more pessimistic in their world view than they would be if they understood the statistics

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Ændra Rininsland
      Census data alone is not enough to map the trans community

      The new information is important but many are still afraid to be counted

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Federica Cocco
      The UK’s adoption system is in peril

      Services for the most vulnerable in society are being undone by funding cuts and collapsing social care infrastructure

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Oliver Roeder
      Perennial threats to library funding stunt our great cities

      New York’s public libraries nurture democracy, community and commerce but proposed cuts could bite deep

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics

      Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity

      A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Incendiary claims about the UK census do not reflect reality

      We should interrogate the convenient weaponisation of the latest data

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Federica Cocco
      Are we ready for the approaching loneliness epidemic?

      Wealthier societies are increasingly troubled by the afflictions of people who live alone — and the young suffer more

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Oliver Roeder
      Data-led election prediction has never been more important

      The American midterms demonstrated that punditry based on ‘vibes’ has little value

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Britain and America’s electoral geographies are broken

      The UK and US systems warp our understanding of key social issues among the public

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      China’s GDP blackout isn’t fooling anyone

      There is diminishing faith in the few economic indicators that, after years of obfuscation, still see the light of day

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Half a million missing workers show modern Britain’s failings

      Chronic pain and mental health problems have pushed huge numbers out of the workforce since the pandemic

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      The Tories have become unmoored from the British people

      The government may have adopted the most extreme economic position of any major party in the developed world

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Economics may take us to net zero all on its own

      The plummeting cost of low-carbon energy has already allowed many countries to decouple economic growth from emissions

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

      When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      The growing link between values and earnings may spell trouble

      Access to higher education has created a path to improved incomes but liberals, not conservatives, are reaping the rewards

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      How US life expectancy fell off a cliff

      One factor explains why a gulf has opened between America and its wealthy peers: deaths from drug overdoses

    • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      The energy bills emergency has barely begun

      Millions of British households are already on the brink — and the months-long squeeze is only just starting

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Britain faces growing competition to attract global talent

      It has benefited from a steady influx of working-age people over the past 40 years, but now risks forfeiting that privilege

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      To tackle obesity, we must change conditions not people

      Expanding waistlines have little to do with individual responsibility, and everything to do with how we live and work

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      Chronic illness makes UK workforce the sickest in developed world

      Every country saw economic inactivity spike during Covid but only in Britain is a rise in worklessness continuing

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      John Burn-Murdoch
      The British still think heatwaves are fun — not for much longer

      The frequency and magnitude of extreme heat events are rapidly increasing, with impacts on health and productivity

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