After the payments made to Reliance Custodial Service under its contract to transport prisoners in Scotland were analysed

The Royal College of Midwives has taken a pot at the use of flawed evidence used to discourage women from giving birth at home.
 

Our old friends at the PR agency 72 point, who carry out all those “surveys”

A letter in today’s Times, from Douglas L Stewart of Aberdeen, claims that the removal of guard railings from roads in London caused pedestrian casualties in London to “escal

Last month’s least likely claim appeared in The Times (9 July, below).

Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, has been forced to eat his words over the 2011 Census. In opposition he castigated it as a waste of money.
 

Two Liberal Democrat MPs have put down an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons welcoming Making Sense of Statistics, the guide published by Straight Statistics and Sense about Scienc

The new Government promised a change: but in the way it is handling statistics, it has so far been a change for the worse.
 

The Office of Budget Responsibility, already in political trouble over changes to unemployment statistics that favoured the Government, could also face charges that it breached the Code of Practi

The Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Statistics (and of Straight Statistics) has written to the Prime Minister backing calls for reform made by Sir Michael Scholar (pictured),