The Times
Who ate all the pies?
A couple of US websites have nominated the graphic below as the worst of the
Scottish Labour in retreat over crime claims
Scottish Labour has backtracked on its claims of the health costs of knife crime – first brought to attention on this website - as its sources distanced thems
Journalists go to sleep counting penguins
When a leading journal publishes a mathematical error, how many journalists spot it? Very few, to judge from a recent slip by Nature.
Getting your VAT in a graphical twist
The website Understanding Uncertainty has nominated this graphic from The Times (4 January 2011) as a contender for the
Beware of lawyers bearing gifts
The Independent on Sunday (last Sunday) and The Times (today) have run identical stories saying that the number of contested wills is rising, blamin
Crying rape falsely: rare or common?
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is claiming that a dirty tricks campaign lay behind the charges of rape and sexual assault laid against him by two Swedish women last week.
False claims on London road casualties
A letter in today’s Times, from Douglas L Stewart of Aberdeen, claims that the removal of guard railings from roads in London caused pedestrian casualties in London to “escal
Cameras off, accidents up?
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
Wacky numbers on the learning disabled
Last month’s least likely claim appeared in The Times (9 July, below).
