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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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