Workshy scroungers have cost the taxpayer £28 billion over the past decade, the Daily Express splashed  on Monday.

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

Many people have pored over the election result, trying to suck meaning from its indeterminate outcome.

Is David Cameron right to claim that people are dying because they cannot get access to cancer drugs?

The Conservative Party’s election manifesto asserts: “The difference in male life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas in our country is now greater than during Victori

How do the three major political parties plan to improve public trust in official statistics?

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

The Conservative Party has been left scrambling for cover after its use of crime statistics earned it the ire of the UK Statistics Authority.

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”.

Everybody knows that drinking in the UK is out of control, driven by a combination of feckless consumers and complacent supermarkets offering cheap deals. But is everybody right?