How easy would it be for a referee to fix the result of a football match, as the (former) Chairman of the Football Association and of England’s 2018 bid, Lord Triesman, has alleged?

Access to statistics before they are released should be sharply curtailed, the UK Statistics Authority has recommended.

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

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

Professor Bernard Silverman, the current President of the Royal Statistical Society, has been appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office, it was

A new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Statistics was launched at the House of Lords on November 3.

Visitors to this year’s Edinburgh International Festival will have had the chance to be stimulated by a special exhibition, The Enlightenments, with its accompanying programme of discussions reflecting on the 18th Century Age of Enlightenment.

The day after the President of the Royal Statistical Society wrote to the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, about the proper collection of key H1N1 data and statistical reporting standards, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) posted some limited pearls of wisdom.

The Royal Statistical Society has fired a shot across the bows of  Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, by demanding changes in the way information on the H1N1 flu pandemic is collec

Diligent parliamentary questions by Andrew Pelling MP have elicited some useful information on H1N1 flu, which deserve a wider public.