Datageddon: Britain's stats have become dangerously unreliable

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Reality Check

The Spectator

6 episodes

2 days ago

Reality Check – the new podcast from The Spectator – cuts through the spin and explains the numbers behind the noise. In each episode, The Spectator’s economics editor Michael Simmons and in-the-know guests will make a data-driven case on a story hogging the headlines.

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Datageddon: Britain's stats have become dangerously unreliable

Reality Check

12 minutes 8 seconds

1 week ago

Datageddon: Britain's stats have become dangerously unreliable

Britain is facing a quiet crisis — its data is breaking down, and the government’s numbers are increasingly unreliable.

In this episode of Reality Check, economics editor Michael Simmons asks what happens when the state can’t count properly. How can the Bank of England set interest rates or the Treasury balance the books when the data they rely on is wrong? And why are so many “official” statistics now being stripped of their trusted status?

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