Divorce order stands after solicitors applied for wrong client lawgazette.co.uk/news/divorce-o… + High Court judgment bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/… #lawtech

Oops

#FOI response from DSIT:

Cost of defending libel action initiated by Prof Kate Sang against minister Michelle Donelan whatdotheyknow.com/request/cost_o…

Write-up of substantially the same response given to ResearchProfessionalNews: researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol… twitter.com/ChrisJParr/sta…

Indicative counts of employee jobs in low-paying occupations gov.uk/government/pub… data table released by Low Pay Commission (UK)

Blog post from September minimumwage.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/11/the… + list of sectors and related data gov.uk/government/pub…

#FOI #lowpay #minimumwage #opendata

Data removed by Home Office 'as a review of the table identified significant discrepancies within the reported data':

Fires, fatalities, casualties, rescues and evacuations in medium and high-rise flats (>7 storeys) gov.uk/government/sta… vs webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20240402… #opendata

In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024 cacm.acm.org/news/in-memori… on Ross Anderson, by Bruce Schneier Schneier Blog for Communications of the ACM #infosec

The 2021 Census was conducted in the height of Covid-19.

We need another Census to provide local-level data we can trust🧮

Maurice Lange dives into the impact skewed Census data may have on funding for local authorities👇
loom.ly/AZBeoS8

Just seen the left-hand chart doing the rounds on Twitter

Helpful reminder that starting points matter for time series. The chart on the right starts in 2009 and changes the story a bit!

Pretty bad practice from BBC - it was an active (and disingenuous) choice to start in 2013

Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) spend data April 2010 - January 2024 drive.google.com/uc?export=down… (16 MB XLSX) #publicspending #opendata

Government data is severely undercounting the number of homeless households placed out of area insidehousing.co.uk/comment/govern… by Steve Iafrati #UKhousing #homelessness #FOI #opendata

DLUHC's official data on out of area (OOA) placements: tables P4 and R4 gov.uk/government/sta…

The Observer ignoring its own style guide … theguardian.com/money/2024/apr… vs theguardian.com/guardian-obser… twitter.com/guardian/statu…