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After the Chancellor delivered his Autumn Budget of 2021, the detailed papers were released that attempted to explain and defend his decisions.

When will life return to normal ?

On 21st September 2021, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produced a report with the cheery title: “Deaths by vaccination status, England”.

In July 2021 the BBC published a series of maps of child mortality in England and Wales in 1850 to compare with maps of Covid-19 mortality rates

British governments don’t deliberately do things that negatively affect house prices.

The human geography of the UK is a very unlevel playing field – more akin to a mountain range than a field.

Rather than promising growth tomorrow, policy-makers should give more to younger generations today

For many years the UK, and almost all other states in the world, have been reporting both the amount they spend on public services, and what they expect to spend in future,

For a few hours on Wednesday 30 June 2021, a report released by University College London’s Institute of Health Equity hit the headlines.

School meals are never termed “free” in Finland; they are simply called “lunch”.

The pandemic had an almost immediate and massive detrimental economic effect on the lives of the already worst-off in the UK,

Within the boundaries of the city of Oxford, for all of 2020, only 95 deaths were registered with COVID-19 being mentioned on the death certificate.

Census 2021 will reveal how a year of lockdowns and furlough has transformed the UK

An extra population survey, on top of next week’s, would provide information the country really needs.

The first death to be publicly attributed to coronavirus in the UK was of a woman in her seventies on March 5 2020.