John Burn-Murdoch

Saturday, 3 June, 2023

Friday, 26 May, 2023

UK society

Britain is not America — and the right shouldn’t forget it

The US brand of national conservatism fails to resonate in the UK because it is a fundamentally different society

Friday, 19 May, 2023

Residential property

How England’s flats turned into second-class housing

Leaseholds and cladding crisis help explain the stagnation in apartment prices

Friday, 12 May, 2023

Data PointsUS gun violence

Collapsing social trust is driving American gun violence

Mass shootings and high-powered rifles draw most attention, but the reality of most US firearm deaths lies elsewhere

Friday, 5 May, 2023

UK immigration

Progressives are winning the immigration debate — but it doesn’t feel like it

In the west, increased openness to diversity may be a direct reaction to populism

Monday, 1 May, 2023

Data PointsNational Health Service

Pay rises alone will not stem the flow of Britain’s medics

Stress, burnout and workplace culture are driving the mounting exodus

Friday, 21 April, 2023

Data PointsDemographics and population

London’s parasitical housing market is driving away young families

Sky-high property costs are forcing thousands to flee the capital, leaving a trail of closed primary schools behind them

Friday, 14 April, 2023

UK employment

Tell-tale signs that UK slowdown is here to stay

While other countries have recovered, clues among UK employment figures suggest problems ahead

Thursday, 6 April, 2023

Data PointsMillennials

Millennials are not as badly off as they think — but success is bittersweet

Highly educated and with earnings to match, this generation still falls behind boomers in the housing market

Friday, 31 March, 2023

Data PointsDemographics and population

Why are Americans dying so young?

US life expectancy is in freefall as the young and the poor bear the brunt of struggles for shared prosperity

Friday, 24 March, 2023

Data PointsMillennials

Conservatives win some culture battles, but they are losing the war

Exploiting wedge issues such as immigration and LGBT rights has cost the right its next generation of voters

Friday, 17 March, 2023

Data PointsProperty

The Anglosphere needs to learn to love apartment living

Housebuilding rates in English-speaking states have fallen behind the rest of the developed world

Friday, 10 March, 2023

Data PointsSocial Media

Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health

Evidence of the catastrophic effects of increased screen-time is now overwhelming

Friday, 24 February, 2023

Data PointsAutomobiles

America’s obsession with big cars has fatal consequences

The US relationship with automobiles is costing thousands of lives

Friday, 17 February, 2023

Premier League

Manchester City’s outsized domination is hurting English football

Data suggest that fans and officials are right to be asking whether money is warping sporting achievement

Friday, 10 February, 2023

Residential property

It’s not easy being green when you live in a conservation area

Outdated and overprotective regulations preserve the ‘character’ of England’s ageing housing stock at all costs

Friday, 30 December, 2022

Data PointsPolitics

Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics

Western conservatives are at risk from generations of voters who are no longer moving to the right as they age

Friday, 23 December, 2022

Data PointsUK government spending

Britain’s winter of discontent is the inevitable result of austerity

A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years

Friday, 16 December, 2022

National Health Service

The real reason for the NHS crisis

Years of under-investment have left English hospitals with creaking infrastructure and no spare capacity

Friday, 2 December, 2022

Data PointsUK society

Incendiary claims about the UK census do not reflect reality

We should interrogate the convenient weaponisation of the latest data

Friday, 11 November, 2022

News in-depthNational Health Service

‘Winter feels a scary place’: Bolton hospital braced for zero capacity

Health system on critical list amid record backlogs, staff shortages and funding black hole

Friday, 11 November, 2022

US midterm elections

Red and Blue America refuse to budge

Despite two years of economic and political turmoil, the political map looks almost indistinguishable from 2020

Friday, 4 November, 2022

UK politics & policy

Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows

Lengthy waiting lists are preventing millions from accessing the services they need

Friday, 28 October, 2022

Data PointsSocial affairs

Britain and America’s electoral geographies are broken

The UK and US systems warp our understanding of key social issues among the public

Friday, 21 October, 2022

Data PointsChina

China’s GDP blackout isn’t fooling anyone

There is diminishing faith in the few economic indicators that, after years of obfuscation, still see the light of day

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