dodgy statistics

The Quiescent Cadavers……

March 12, 2009

Way back in the murky past, I did an inordinate amount of research for a paper entitled The Quiescent Cadaver. Bless them, I was shocked to discover they have no legal rights at all. Surprisingly, they live lives pretty much like the rest of us; they get married, they have sex, they have babies. Today [...]

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Tenors on a fiver an hour?

February 23, 2009

On Sunday, Jacqui Smith said that a new points based system will be used to “raise the bar” for highly skilled migrants to curb the numbers coming in. The move is part of an immigration crackdown to be unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith tomorrow to “put British workers first” – and increase the BNP [...]

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From closet to cabinet and back to closet again…..

January 31, 2009

No longer centre stage, the man who should more properly be blamed for the present bout of fiscal diarrhoea in the UK banking system, skulked on the outer perimeter of the Davos conference this week, uncharacteristically silent. The last time he was at Davos in 2008 he said, “Being prime minister of Britain means having to [...]

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The Hot Air Government gets a puncture……

January 21, 2009

The afternoon reverie is shattered by the grinding of metal, the squeal of tyres and the smell of rubber and aviation fuel. It is the sound of the Gordon Brown’s ‘Hindenburg’ government apparatus simultaneously crash landing whilst performing a full reverse manoeuvre. Last year the High Court ordered the Commons authorities to publish details, including [...]

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Dodgy governments, dodgy statistics, dodgy results.

January 7, 2009

A statement published on the DCSF website says: “The Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 that came into force on 1 December 2008 and the Code of Practice for Official Statistics published on 6 January 2009 means the Department must change the arrangements for the release of the two sets of achievement and attainment [...]

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