Policy Lead
In August the Department for Work and Pensions released statistics about people who died while on benefits, or in the year they came off benefits. But the figures were confusing. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The government has announced a review of the production Britain's economic statistics. The Treasury could assume responsibility for the quality of official figures, and it's argued that this would make production answerable to parliament. But the production of UK statistics is already answerable to parliament through the work of the UK statistics authority. Read
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's Fact Checker, has written about the growth of factchecking around the world and what it means for politics and democracy. "Political fact-checking has thus become … Read
