It was the 5th sunniest January on record in the UK but I doubt anyone noticed! Otherwise the weather was unremarkable.
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Pay Gap Data #8 – Where can I find gender pay gap data for 2024?
This post was updated on 3rd February 2025 with data for the 2024 snapshot date. Between now and April, I will update this page with new data at regular intervals. The next update is planned for the beginning of March.
The government requires nearly all employers with a headcount of 250 or more on their snapshot date to submit gender pay gap data. All data is available to the public and can be found on the government’s gender pay gap website. I have downloaded this data and created a spreadsheet to present the data in a more user-friendly and visual format.
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UK Weather Trends #34 – Annual Temperatures in 2024
The 2024 calendar year was the 4th hottest year on record in the UK. Last year, I used a Control Chart to conclude “a step change upwards (in UK temperatures) has taken place but the pace of change is not yet clear“. I am now less confident in my conclusion after updating with 2024 data, especially when I look at temperature trends based on the meteorological year of December to November instead.
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UK Weather Tracker #95 – December 2024
The start of the 2025 meteorological year was the 5th warmest, 4th least frosty, 4th darkest and 10th stormiest December on record. Finally we have some abnormal and interesting weather to show on my charts!
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Pay Gap Trends #8A – Is a Smaller Pay Gap Good News?
The gender pay gap in the UK continues to narrow in 2024. The good news is the pay gap is narrowing at a faster rate since 2017 when Gender Pay Gap Reporting (GPGR) for employers become mandatory. The bad news is women are not progressing up the pay scale and are working longer hours, men today are worse off than their fathers were 20 years ago and the smaller pay gap is simply the by-product of wage compression induced by above inflation rises in the minimum wage. This is a sobering picture which tells me on balance, a smaller pay gap is not good news.
This article is part A of a 2-part blog. Part B will be published at a later date.
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Trophy Winners #4 – The GOATs of World Snooker (Mens)
Judd Trump has won the 2024 UK Championship which is the 5th Triple Crown title of his career. Does that make him a GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) in men’s Snooker? Using the criteria I recommend in this article, Trump will become a GOAT if he wins another World Championship.
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UK Weather Trends #33 – Autumn 2024
The UK autumn in 2024 was essentially unremarkable and mostly consistent with the step change in autumnal climate seen 25 years ago.
UK Weather Tracker #94 – November 2024
Since June, the weather in the UK has been very average and unremarkable and November was again no different, perhaps a bit stormier than normal. The contrast with the first half of the meteorological year is quite notable.
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Pay Gaps #31 – When is Equal Pay Day in 2024?
When is #EqualPayDay in the UK in 2024?
No-one knows is the correct answer. That’s because there are no national measurements of the extent of unequal pay in the UK e.g. a woman being paid less than a man for the doing the same job.
If you see anyone talking about “Equal Pay Day“, they are in fact talking about #GenderPayGapDay, the day on which the typical women “starts working for free” when compared with the typical man irrespective of what job they are doing. Of course, as everyone knows, gender pay gaps do not measure the extent of unequal pay in any shape or form.
For 2024, the ONS (Office of National Statistics) has published 30 different gender pay gap statistics. This means we could have 30 different gender pay gap days so how do we decide which one to use?
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UK Weather Tracker #93 – October 2024
Since June, the weather in the UK has been very average and unremarkable and October was no different. The contrast with the first half of the meteorological year is quite notable.
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