Statisticians have rushed hither and yon to umpire the row between Michael Gove and Ed Balls in the Commons over whether – as Mr Gove claimed – only 45 of the 80,000 children

Wild excitement must have gripped readers of The Guardian on Saturday, when they read on Page 1 of the sports section that Manchester United was valued at a mere £800,000,

The political blogging site Left Foot Forward, which represents itself as an “evidence –based analysis of British politics” yesterday published a bold extrapolation of recen

The Guardian has an entertaining story today about the number of bugs in Britain's soil. Apparently they've doubled in number in the past decade.

Getting a decimal point in the wrong place “makes no difference”, according to a Conservative Party spokesman, after a document issued by the party multiplied the number of teenag

Just how far will the Home Office go to justify the retention of DNA profiles from people arrested but not found guilty of any crime?

Lucky old Greeks. They’ve got themselves into enough of an economic muddle to have to take lectures from the EU on getting their statistics in order.

Mark Easton of the BBC has taken a swing at the Conservatives’ use of crime statistics to support David Cameron's claims of a “broken society”.

ONS has defended its estimates of GDP growth, which have been attacked by economists as excessively gloomy.