Crime
Crime in England and Wales
Crime as experienced and recounted by adults is falling in general and has been since the mid-1990s. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
What's happened to living standards?
There's no single measure of living standards. Different measures look at different groups of people, different income sources and adjust for inflation in different ways. Wages are growing in real … Read
Analysis
Health
Cancer treatment in England and Wales
Ed Miliband has announced that the next Labour government will invest "£150 million each year ... in new cancer diagnostic infrastructure". We wanted to find out how different governments approach … Read
Analysis
Election update, 22 April: food banks and Wikipedia
The use of Trussell Trust food banks by an alleged one million people last year is covered by the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Mirror today. You can read … Read
Analysis
Human rights: a criminals' charter?
One of the most important things about human rights law, according to its supporters, is that the protections it provides apply to everyone. Opponents say that this feature of the … Read
Analysis
The debate over human rights law
What is human rights law and what does each side say in this debate? Read
Analysis
Health
Nurses in the UK and abroad
The effective number of practising nurses generally fluctuates across the year. So a comparison of the number of nurses from one year to another is most meaningful if figures for … Read
Analysis
Election update, 21 April: nurse training and a row over the SNP
Most of the papers today have covered the tragic deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean on their front pages. The prospect of the SNP being in coalition leads the political … Read
Analysis
Europe
UKIP and Brexit: what does the manifesto say?
Now that the EU referendum has been set for June 23rd, we will be bringing you new factchecks and explainers on topics ranging from immigration to trade. We will also … Read
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Election update, 20 April: Scottish Nationalists and manifestos
Today's major political story, judging by the newspapers' front pages, is a rather old one in two senses. First, we've known for some time that, according to the opinion polls, … Read
Analysis
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