Monday, 3 April 2017

Spreadsheets are people too: statistics and reality

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One of the occupational hazards of taking data and statistics seriously – and using social media to do so – is frequent accusations that my...
Saturday, 4 March 2017

EU citizens’ rights: the Brexit Committee report

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The report of the Commons Committee on Exiting the EU (known to its friends as the Brexit Committee) on the rights of EU citizens resident...
Thursday, 23 February 2017

Immigration is falling. Be careful what you wish for..

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Today’s immigration figures are the first with any meaningful data after the Brexit vote. And they show – as I predicted back in August –...
Thursday, 2 February 2017

A(nother) debate on immigration: how about starting with the facts?

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Launching the Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry on immigration, Yvette Cooper called for a "national debate" claiming that im...
Monday, 16 January 2017

The weather is not the climate: predicting the economic impacts of Brexit

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Interviewed for ITN/Channel 4 New s, I was asked – very reasonably – why anyone should listen to economists’ views on the economic impacts ...
Wednesday, 4 January 2017

My predictions for 2017 (from the FT Economists' survey)

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The Financial Times annual survey of leading British economists' predictions, views and forecasts for the year ahead was publish...
Monday, 17 October 2016

Troubled Families - anatomy of a policy disaster

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[IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: This blog represents my personal view only: not that of NIESR or of the evaluation consortium led by Ecorys] Peopl...