By the Numbers

A lot of the work I do is born out of curiosity. And frustration. Or rather, frustration at the fact that the answers to my questions are not easy to find.

This latest project is no different.

I’ve built and published a new website, UK by Numbers.

It’s hard to believe that it has been almost a decade since Hans Rosling died. He was a huge inspiration for the work I do today.

He would also be appalled that more than ten years on from his big push to make international organisations share valuable data with the worl...

This weekend, Brazil’s current president, Lula da Silva, will head to the polls against Flávio Bolsonaro (the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro). It looks like the election will be incredibly tight.

I can’t speak to all ...

Next week, the UK government will announce its latest budget.1

Every time this comes around, there’s intense debate about what financial holes we need to fill, whether we should raise taxes or cut spending, and which taxes we should change or leave untouched. Countless numbers a...