An independent statistician using data to understand our world and to predict the future
The 2021 Six Nations (Men’s) ended with Wales winning the title after Scotland beat France in Paris to snuff out France’s attempt to win the title for the first time since 2010. Wales let a Grand Slam slip after conceding a try in injury time and as an England fan who was there at Wembley in 1999 I know exactly how the Welsh feel!
[Read more…] about 6 Nations History #1 – The men’s story so far in 2021
Keir Starmer has to match what Clement Attlee did in 1945 and beat what Tony Blair did in 1997 if he wants to form a Labour government at the next election. To arrive at Downing Street 
by the end of 2024, Starmer must get his party to board an InterCity 125 train and spend the next 3 years following the tracks I lay out in this article. As I will show, whichever track they take has to go through 125 English Conservative seats, most of which are in between cities. Hence InterCity 125 becomes the easy to remember name of Labour’s list of target seats.
[Read more…] about UK General Elections #6 – Keir Starmer’s train to Downing Street
I call upon Parliament to abolish the Gender Pay Gap by requiring employers to report their Gender Swap Number instead. When presented alongside an employer’s Gender Pay Fingerprint, the Gender Swap Number tells everyone how much work the employer needs to do to eliminate their gender pay gap and allows for a fairer comparison between employers.
[Read more…] about Pay Gaps #20 – Abolish the Gender Pay Gap!
An unfortunate side effect of COVID19 has been ugly political debates over the best way to tackle the pandemic. Often politicians will claim because country X does this, the UK should be doing it as well. I decided it was time to do a proper comparison of the UK with other countries to see what extent the UK is an outlier and whether there are some countries we should be using as templates.
[Read more…] about COVID19 Cases #2 – Is the UK an outlier internationally?
Winter 2021 was wetter than usual in the UK but otherwise unremarkable.
The UK weather in February 2021 started cold and ended up warm but in the end, everything averaged out into an extremely boring month statistically.
[Read more…] about UK Weather Tracker #49 – February 2021
The weather in the UK in the second month of the new meteorological year was frosty but otherwise unremarkable.
[Read more…] about UK Weather Tracker #48 – January 2021
The weather in the UK in the first month of the new meteorological year was wetter than usual but otherwise unremarkable.
[Read more…] about UK Weather Tracker #47 – December 2020
The UK experienced unremarkable weather in all respects in Autumn 2020.
The weather in the UK in November 2020 was warmer than usual but otherwise unremarkable.
[Read more…] about UK Weather Tracker #46 – November 2020
