Life expectancy in the US dropped between 2007 and 2008, after years of steady increase.

In today’s Times, David Aaronovitch (p 19) concludes that the demise of speed cameras will increase road casualties – a reasonable conclusion given academic evidence that, ev

A statistician has provided evidence that helped to convict a Blackpool stallholder of running a game of hoopla that was almost impossible to win, report the

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.

The new Government data site, www.data.gov.uk, has opened for business.

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

Unnoticed in the pre-Christmas rush, the UK Statistics Authority has published a report on crime statistics.

The Government is planning a big data giveaway in an attempt to encourage new ventures based on innovative ways of using it.

Figures released today show that the UK economy was still in recession in the third quarter of 2009.