19 December 2020
The Times: Slow start to shield care homes leaves Johnson frustrated (paywalled)
18 December 2020
The i paper: Statistics of the year: ‘17,750’ and ‘332 days’ helped country make sense of ‘strange and sobering’ events
Sky News: COVID-19: 332 days to find a vaccine and 5.5million years on Zoom - the year 2020 in numbers
Daily Mail: Why 332 is the stat of the year
Research Live: RSS names its Stats of the Year
The Conversation US: International Statistic of the Year: Race for a COVID-19 vaccine
The Conversation UK: What children can teach governments about making graphs
Guardian: Covid: unions say mass testing of England's pupils 'undeliverable'
11 December 2020
BMJ: Jon Deeks - Lateral flow tests cannot rule out SARS-CoV-2 infection
10 December 2020:
Express: Pfizer vaccine sceptics ‘looming problem’ for coronavirus - doctor warns Brits to take jab
4 December 2020
Guardian: Experts question claimed accuracy of Covid-19 saliva tests
3 December 2020
The Times: 2020 quiz: Dogs, drinks and dining out — the year in numbers (paywalled)
28 November 2020
Observer: Oxford controversy is the first shot in international battle over vaccine efficacy
26 November 2020
The i: Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine results
Channel 4: FactCheck Q&A: how safe is the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine?
25 November 2020
BBC News: Spending Review: Millions face cut in value of workplace pensions
This is Money (Mail Online): Pensioners and investors avoid cliff edge as Treasury won't switch away from RPI until 2030
19 November 2020
ITV News Podcast: Coronavirus: What You Need To Know - interview with Prof Jennifer Rogers
18 November 2020
Pensions Age: Unions unite to urge government against scrapping RPI
16 November 2020
BMJ: Testing times for the government’s favoured antibody kit
14 November 2020
R4 More or Less WS: Vaccine numbers (interview with Prof Jennifer Rogers)
12 November 2020
The Scotsman: Parliament backs plans to limit advanced access to stats for Scottish ministers
11 November 2020
Medscape: UK COVID-19 Update: Vaccine Scepticism, Rising Waiting Lists
11 November 2020
ITV News: Coronavirus: What You Need To Know - the ITV News podcast with Professor Jennifer Rogers
10 November 2020
ITV News: How many Covid infections are acquired in hospitals? This is what the data shows
9 November 2020
Sky News: An interview with Professor Sheila Bird
5 November 2020
Financial Times: Tim Harford’s dream dinner party (paywalled)
2 November 2020
Guardian: Doubts over 'rapid turnaround' Covid tests pledged by Johnson
27 October 2020
Research Live: Statistical Partnership To Support Uk’s Pandemic Response
22 October 2020
Civil Service World: Joint Biosecurity Centre partners with stats and machine-learning experts to inform Covid response
21 October 2020
BMJ: Covid-19: Second wave death rate is doubling fortnightly but is lower and slower than in March
Politico: London Playbook – 21 October
Civil Service World: ‘The opportunity to have organisations of all types publishing data to common standards is really exciting’: why stats regulators' new award matters
Officials win plaudits for statistical excellence
16 October 2020
The i: Joy for three generations born on same date at 66,000-to-one odds — but pandemic prevents a family reunion
8 October 2020
ITV News: Covid-19: How much are students driving the surge in UK cases? This is what the data shows
7 October 2020
BMJ: Covid-19: Which rapid tests is the UK pinning its hopes on?
The Independent: Coronavirus: Government buys one million antibody tests despite ‘lack of evidence’ of accuracy
6 October 2020
Guardian: Despite accuracy concerns the UK to buy 1m antibody home tests
Computer Weekly: UK government coronavirus data flawed and misleading
Financial Times: A review of Tim Harford's 'How to Make the World Add Up" - Stian Westlake (paywalled)
1 October 2020
BMJ: Seven days in medicine: 23-29 September 2020
27 September 2020
Guardian: UK market flooded with inadequate Covid tests, experts suggest
25 September 2020
Financial Times: Scepticism as Boohoo bosses turn from fashion to Covid tests (paywalled)
24 September 2020
Research Fortnight: Royal Statistical Society to review evidence gap for Covid-19 tests (paywalled)
Telegraph: Operation Moonshot swab tests could damage economy, says top statistician (paywalled)
22 September 2020
BMJ: Operation Moonshot proposals are scientifically unsound
18 September 2020
Guardian: UK government faces legal action over 'moonshot' Covid testing project
Spectator: Why isn’t Matt Hancock taking Covid false positives seriously?
17 September 2020
Civil Service World: DfID was one of government’s most data savvy departments. Preserving these skills will be a test of Whitehall reform
16 September 2020
BBC Radio 4 More or Less: Interview with Jon Deeks on ‘operation moonshot’
11 September 2020
The Times: Coronavirus: Experts criticise Johnson over ‘dangerous’ moonshot mass testing plan (paywalled)
Letter to the Times from the Covid-19 Task Force (paywalled)
Mail Online: Covid-19 tests will have to be near-perfect for Operation Moonshot to work or they will get thousands of results wrong every DAY, statisticians warn
4 September 2020
Civil Service World: Interview: Royal Statistical Society chief Stian Westlake on Covid-19, the A-Level row, and his ‘very geeky’ favourite stat
2 September 2020
Computer Weekly: Ethical and professional data science needed to avoid further algorithm controversies
28 August 2020
Sky News: Exams algorithm not 'mutant' and contained 'predictable' errors, says top statistician
PM blames 'mutant algorithm' for exams fiasco
26 August 2020
New Statesman: Is the government dodging the blame for the exam results fiasco?
25 August 2020
Research Fortnight: Statistics body hits back at exams regulator in A-level algorithm row (paywalled)
Civil Service World: Stats society criticises Ofqual's 'desperate' defence of NDA that 'would have gagged experts for five years'
24 August 2020
Guardian: Royal Statistical Society hits back at Ofqual in exams algorithm row
BBC Radio 4 Today: Interview with Stian Westlake
23 August 2020
Observer: The cruel exams algorithm has laid bare the unfairness at the heart of our schools
20 August 2020
The Times: Royal Statistical Society’s offer to help Ofqual was spurned (paywalled)
BBC: A-levels: Ofqual's 'cheating' algorithm under review
Independent: Ofqual’s controversial algorithm to be reviewed, regulatory body confirms
ITV News: UK exam results: Where did it all go wrong?
19 August 2020
Financial Times: Blame the politicians, not the technology, for A-level fiasco (paywalled)
Civil Service World: Stats regulator to review Ofqual algorithm used to award A-Level grades
Guardian: Why 'Ditch the algorithm' is the future of political protest
18 August 2020
Schools Week: Stats watchdog to launch review into Ofqual’s results algorithm
BBC: How did Gavin Williamson survive exams U-turn?
Guardian: Parents and teachers have lost faith in Gavin Williamson, government told
Mail Online: Statistical models used to award exam results to be reviewed
BBC World Service Digital Planet: Algorithm apocalypse
Independent: Vince Cable - Compared to the A-Level results fiasco, further education colleges have a much bigger challenge
17 August 2020
Channel 4 News: Students left reeling after exam chaos
The Telegraph: The A-levels debacle threatened to be another poll tax moment (paywalled)
Mail on Sunday: Boris heads on holiday amid A-levels chaos
Financial Times: Fears U-turn on A-level results will create problems for years to come (paywalled)
16 August 2020
BBC R4 Broadcasting House: Interview with Sharon Witherspoon
TES: Call to delay results over flawed algorithm
15 August 2020
The Times: Ofqual failed students, say statisticians (paywalled)
Evening Standard: Gavin Williamson says A Level and GCSE grades appeals will be free for schools in England
The i: Gavin Williamson vows ‘no U-turn, no change’ over A-level grading system
Channel 4 News: Professor Guy Nason: ‘Unfortunately with an algorithm like this it’s just inevitable there are going be mistakes’
14 August 2020
Sky News: A-levels: Exam regulator ignored expert help after statisticians wouldn't sign non-disclosure agreements
12 August 2020
Reuters: Exam grading algorithms amid coronavirus: what's the row about?
9 August 2020
The Telegraph: Statistics watchdog urged to investigate exam regulator over secrecy and data handling (paywalled)
7 August 2020
Guardian: UK's rapid Covid test not yet approved by regulators
Guardian: Nearly 40% of A-level result predictions to be downgraded in England
Metro: Almost 40% of A-Level grades set to be downgraded in England
The Sun: A-level misery for 300,000 English pupils as grades set by teachers ‘will be downgraded’
6 August 2020
Guardian: Letter from the Royal Statistical Society Covid-19 Task Force
2 August 2020
The i: Government ‘ditches’ pledge to test all in care homes for coronavirus this summer amid test and trace chaos
28 July 2020
TES: 'Ofqual can't expect us to put faith in a crystal ball'
23 July 2020
Daily Mail: More than two hours of television a day raises the risk of strokes and heart attacks, researchers say
Research Live: RSS to set data science standards
Research Fortnight: Statistics body reveals plans to professionalise data science (paywalled)
14 July 2020
BBC Radio 4: The Political School
3 July 2020
The Telegraph: Royal Statistical warns that students in the middle of their class could suffer under coronavirus grading system (paywalled)
18 June 2020
BBC: Coronavirus: How does the UK's death toll compare with other countries?
17 June 2020
Reuters: In a U.S. first, California city set to ban predictive policing
1 June 2020
BMJ: Covid-19: Leading statistician welcomes UK government’s move to improve testing data
25 May 2020
The Times: How many people are really being tested for Coronavirus in the UK? (paywalled)
22 May 2020
Financial Times: Spiegelhalter says majority of Covid deaths would not have occurred in coming year (paywalled)
21 May 2020
Metro: 17% of Londoners and 5% of the rest of the UK have coronavirus antibodies
12 May 2020
BBC: Coronavirus: How many people have died in the UK?
Independent: Florence Nightingale’s legacy ‘has never been so relevant’
Evening Standard: Florence Nightingale's Bicentenary Celebration
11 May 2020
The Conversation: The healing power of data: Florence Nightingale’s true legacy
8 May 2020
Daily Mail: How Florence Nightingale shaped the way modern nurses are tackling coronavirus
6 May 2020
Computer Weekly: Re-purposing data and questionable effectiveness could undermine trust in NHS contact-tracing app
5 May 2020
Guardian: How would Florence Nightingale have tackled Covid-19?
29 April 2020
Research Live: New CEO at the Royal Statistical Society
Financial Times: Cancer deaths in England could soar by a fifth this year, UCL study says(paywalled)
28 April 2020
Guardian: Harvey Goldstein obituary
City AM: Royal Statistical Society appoints new chief executive
27 April 2020
Research Fortnight: Stian Westlake appointed chief executive of statistical society (paywalled)
22 April 2020
Research Live: Royal Statistical Society Launches Pandemic Task Force
17 April 2020
Financial Times: Why are we really in lockdown? (paywalled)
16 April 2020
TES: Tributes pour in for critic of Pisa and league tables
13 April 2020
International Business Times: Statistics in time of Coronavirus: How do you make sense of a data avalanche?
12 April 2020
Guardian: Coronavirus deaths in UK hospitals surpass 10,000
Observer: Coronavirus statistics: what can we trust and what should we ignore?
9 April 2020
CNN: British scientists are sceptical about US model which predicts much higher Covid-19 death toll in UK
8 April 2020
Independent: Study suggests UK could have Europe’s highest coronavirus death toll
27 March 2020
Financial Times: Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve (paywalled)
26 March 2020
Business Standard: Women 10 per cent more likely than men to feel unsafe in metro trains: Study
9 March 2020
The Register: UK.gov is not sharing Brits' medical data among different agencies
24 February 2020
WONKHE: Are student number controls coming back to English higher education?
3 February 2020
Guardian: Study finds UK productivity slowdown worst since Industrial Revolution
20 January 2020
The House: Dan Jarvis MP: Low productivity has become ingrained in our economy
16 January 2020
Civil Service World: Royal Statistical Society award to recognise organisations leading the way on trustworthy stats
Bloomberg: UK Productivity Woes More Costly Than Worst-Case Brexit
14 January 2020
Charity Digital: Data project for charities awarded £400,000 from the National Lottery
13 January 2020
Express: Has the Amazon rainforest fire stopped?
10 January 2020
UK Fundraising: Royal Statistical Society secures National Lottery funding to help charities with data skills
8 January 2020
Financial Times: UK labour productivity rises slightly (paywall)
6 January 2020
Independent: Phil Thornton - The government’s productivity blindspot is our economy’s biggest threat
3 January 2020
The Telegraph: The numbers we'll be talking about in the next decade (paywall)