No, just not numerically literate, I suspect. And tbf most of us were happy to jump to the same conclusion and start moralising over it, without asking any questions ourselves. (View Post)

As a corollary, it show the kind of damage Trump's messing with the collection and reporting of economic statistics is likely to do. The value of something like ONS is that they try to maintain … (View Post)

Reporters really should pick this up and go back to the source (which took me all of 30sec). .... However, the public sector annual growth rate is affected by some public sector pay rises being paid … (View Post)

La commedia è finita US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond https://www… (View Post)

Not necessarily. (View Post)