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    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Data PointsPolitics
      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
      Data PointsUK government spending
      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, 16 December, 2022
      National Health Service
      The real reason for the NHS crisis

      Years of under-investment have left English hospitals with creaking infrastructure and no spare capacity

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Data PointsUK society
      Incendiary claims about the UK census do not reflect reality

      We should interrogate the convenient weaponisation of the latest data

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      News in-depthNational Health Service
      ‘Winter feels a scary place’: Bolton hospital braced for zero capacity

      Health system on critical list amid record backlogs, staff shortages and funding black hole

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      US midterm elections
      Red and Blue America refuse to budge

      Despite two years of economic and political turmoil, the political map looks almost indistinguishable from 2020

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows

      Lengthy waiting lists are preventing millions from accessing the services they need

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Data PointsSocial affairs
      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
      Data PointsChina
      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, 14 October, 2022
      Covid-19 vaccines
      Tragic fallout from the politicisation of science in the US

      Many countries had partisan divides on Covid vaccination, but they were more lethal in the US than anywhere else

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      News in-depthLiz Truss
      How Liz Truss is out of sync with the British public

      Polling suggests there is little appetite for PM’s policies to improve economic growth

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Data PointsHealth
      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
      Data PointsConservative Party UK
      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
      Data PointsClimate change
      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
      Data PointsGlobal Economy
      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
      Data PointsUK politics & policy
      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
      Data PointsUS opioid epidemic
      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
      Data PointsUK energy
      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, 11 August, 2022
      National Health Service
      The NHS is being squeezed in a vice

      Excess deaths not related to Covid are rising in a system under almost intolerable strain

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      Data PointsUK politics & policy
      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
      Data PointsFood diet
      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
      Data PointsNational Health Service
      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

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      News in-depthTravel & leisure industry
      US tourists drive rebound in foreign visitors to London’s top attractions

      Strong dollar and relaxation of Covid testing rules boost American numbers but Asians have yet to return

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      Data PointsClimate change
      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

    • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      Omicron sub-variants push up Covid hospitalisations in Europe and US

      Infections less likely to cause severe illness or death than past waves, FT analysis suggests

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