Even as supplied by an unscrupulous underground market and taken blind by consumers in a variety of unsuitable ways, they really aren't very dangerous: According to the ONS data, in 2010 there were more helium deaths [32] than cannabis, ecstasy, mephedrone and GHB related deaths put together. 'Helium?' you may ask... It's classed as a drug but no, it doesn't do anything. B...

Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to Conservative MP David Ruffley’s interview on the Today programme and today’s ONS figures confirming the UK economy has grown by just 0.5% in the last 12 months:

The government borrowed £6.5bn last month, compared with the £7.7bn it borrowed in the same month last year, the ONS said

From Sunny. Nope, wrong. That is a display of market incomes. It’s from ASHE, compiled by the ONS. Perfectly good numbers, but it simply isn’t incomes. It is pre-tax, pre-benefit, market incomes only. As I say, within those confines, they’re perfectly good numbers. But they’re just not “incomes for Britons” because we have a tax

CoffeeHousers may remember an odd New York Times editorial recently where they tried to blame the evaporation of British economic growth on austerity. Perhaps the newspapers’s famed fact-checkers had taken the day off, because the slightest piece of research would have exposed the premises of the piece as bunkum. This morning, the ONS has produced monthly public finance figures, showing curr...

CoffeeHousers may remember an odd New York Times editorial recently where they tried to blame the evaporation of British economic growth on austerity. Perhaps the newspapers’s famed fact-checkers had taken the day off, because the slightest piece of research would have exposed the premises of the piece as bunkum. This morning, the ONS has produced monthly public finance figures, showing curr...

British workers are a quarter less productive than workers in the US as the gap between the two countries is now the biggest for 17 years, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, commenting on the ONS GDP second quarter figures published today, said:

The number of degree students ending up in low to lower-skilled jobs has grown from 9pc to 17pc over the past 18 years, a fresh analysis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed. The increase is largely due to the number of people with a degree rising at a faster rate than the

According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), 11.2 per cent of all shops on high streets and in shopping centres are vacant. Isn’t that a surprising statistic? Based on ONS experimental Internet sales series, the non-seasonally adjusted average weekly value of Internet retail sales in July 2011 was £523.4 million which was approximately 9.1 per