Official fibbing/bad stats

WRITTEN ON Sunday, January 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Transformational Government, What do we want?

This is a problem. Full text is below, but here’s the toxic clause para 152 of the proposed Coroners and Justice Bill and what it would add to the Data Protection act: Subject to the following provisions of this Part, a designated authority may by order (an “information-sharing order” ) enable any person to share […]


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WRITTEN ON Sunday, December 14th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, What do we want?

A dissident tribe called the UK Statistics Authority has busted the tribe of the Great Clunking Fist and Ho Moffice for fibbing and spinning. Thus, it appears, the Stats Tribe seeks to defend the honour of the Foundation of Trust: (Beeb) Downing Street has been rebuked for manipulating knife crime statistics for political ends. Sir […]


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