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The Political Earthquake Hidden Inside Wales’ Election Results

The 2026 Senedd election did not just end Labour’s dominance in Wales. It exposed the new divide shaping Welsh politics.

Young Wales went Plaid. Older Wales went Reform. Labour lost both.

For more than a century, Welsh politics had one ce...

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Britain Is Getting Sicker Younger — And The NHS Is Paying The Price

We are used to assuming that every generation will be healthier than the last. Better medicine, better housing, better technology and more awareness should all mean longer, healthier lives.

But the data is starting to tell a different stor...

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The Worklessness Trap: 300,000 Households Where Work Has Never Existed

The latest ONS workless household tables should set alarm bells ringing.

For this analysis, I have excluded student households throughout. That gives a cleaner picture of worklessness among non-student working-age households, rather than c...

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Over 1 Million Young People Left Behind — And Britain’s Problems Are Piling Up

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Britain Is Having Fewer Babies — But The Country Being Born Is Changing

Some statistics quietly tell you a country is changing.

The latest births data from the Office for National Statistics is one of them.

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    Independent Statistician and former Head of Health/Jobs/Wages statistics at the ONS.Now writing weekly on UK stats, politics, and economic policy. Seen on Talk TV, GB News, LBC, BBC. Cutting through the noise with real numbers.

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