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

Play it straight, urges the President of the Royal Statistical Society in a letter to party leaders in advance of the election.

 The UK Statistics Authority has issued its pre-election wish-list in a letter from the authority’s Chair, Sir Michael Scholar (pictured), to the leaders of the major political par

There’s a great pie-chart doing the rounds on the Internet that I can’t resist reproducing. Apologies if you've seen it before.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is in trouble for sending an email to a political opponent with a hidden message.

As Britain moves into pre-election spring, we can expect the opinion polls to flower in profusion. But what do they really tell us?

Are members of the House of Lords the idlers that The Times asserts them to be? On January 27, at the height of the row over peers being paid for acting as consultants, Alice Thomson wrote an article in The Times claiming that members of the Upper House were idle as well as biddable.