Frank Davis writes some of the best blog posts out there, in my opinion. He is often “Banging on about the Smoking Ban,” but his interest in statistics and science makes for good reading too. (That’s not him in the photo obviously, but he was just down the street from Nigel Farage in Stony Stratford, [...]

A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed that, despite the overall number of children living in poverty in the UK falling to 3.7 million, the number living in poverty in working households has risen to its largest ever total.
The study shows that fewer youngsters of the unemployed are living in poverty, but 2.1 [...]

No, it’s not a gripe about the Tories increasing the overseas aid budget to help regimes like Pakistan’s that buys weapons of mass destruction (real ones) and puts people on death row for talking about Christ.
Today is the BBC’s annual attempt to get the land’s couch potatoes to phone up and donate money to “good [...]