The 1937 census of the Soviet Union took place in deep mid-winter, when a good many families were gathered together for the start of Russian Orthodox Christmas. But there were two men that year who weren’t feeling much of the festive spirit. Olimpy Kvitkin was...
Presented with the opportunity to kick an inflatable replica of an MP’s backside, would you give it a boot? One person who seemed to think that the masses would enjoy nothing more than wellying the proxy posterior of their honourable representative was Nick...
Britain is “fraying around the edges,” at “boiling point” and on the brink of ‘civil disobedience on a vast scale,’ with the north of England set to “go up in flames” if the anger and resentment continue to simmer....
If anyone ever claims economic forecasting in an exact science, consign them in your mind to the bin. Trying to anticipate how much an economy will grow, how much productivity will change, and what the labour market will look like in several years’ time is...
“This is crazy, man! This is outrageous!”Those were the words of Ian Lavery MP speaking last week in the confused final minutes of a five-hour debate in the House of Commons on the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. Over the course of...
April Fools’ Day is not the most fortunate date for the birth of an organisation wanting to be taken seriously.Nevertheless, it was on this date in 1996 that the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) was brought into being by the merger of the existing...
The past month has brought a battery of anxious publications on the subjects of immigration, Britishness and population change, starting with a report from the Centre for Heterodox Social Science (CHSS) forecasting that the White British population of the UK will have...