More than a year ago, I wrote this about the government’s misuse of statistics when talking about the gender pay gap…
However the real ‘elephant in the room’ here is this statement, which comes from a factsheet (pdf) produced by the government’s own Women and Equality Unit:
The part-time gender pay gap
The part-time gender pay gap is [...]

What better way could there be to start a new year at the Ministry than with a typically tawdry tale of statistics abuse featuring Nadine Dorries as supporting rent-a-gob and all brought to you, as ever, by the Daily Mail:
Teenage pregnancies triple in leafy suburbs in damning blow to Labour sex education campaign
Affluent middle-class areas [...]

Having obtained the actual data on which the Telegraph based its claim, made last September, that Foreigners commit ‘fifth of crime in London‘, courtesy of 5cc – who very cleverly put in an FOIA request for the information given to the press – let’s set about doing the numbers properly, if only to give a [...]

And yes, another abortion post, but as the anti-abortion lobby keeps on lying, I’m just going to have keep right on pointing out the truth.
So what have we got for today? Well it’s this article in the Telegraph which claims that:
Hundreds of children are surviving after being born within the legal limit for abortion, official [...]