John Burn-Murdoch

Friday, 11 April, 2025

Monday, 7 April, 2025

Data PointsDonald Trump

Trump chaos is alienating Republicans

Outside of the Maga ecosystem, bad economic news is starting to cut through

Friday, 28 March, 2025

Data PointsTechnology

Why hasn’t AI taken your job yet?

New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers

Saturday, 22 March, 2025

Data PointsMedia

The misinformation discourse is a distraction

Media fragmentation and the erosion of shared sources of truth are bigger threats

Friday, 14 March, 2025

Data PointsHealth

Have humans passed peak brain power?

Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning

Friday, 7 March, 2025

Data PointsGeopolitics

Why the Maga mindset is different

US decisions can no longer be analysed using assumptions shared across the democratic west

Saturday, 1 March, 2025

Data PointsFootball

Manchester United is tackling the wrong problem

A decade of accumulated sporting failure is now hitting the club’s bottom line

Friday, 21 February, 2025

Data PointsAirlines

Is air travel becoming more dangerous?

A spate of high-profile incidents has shone fresh light on aviation safety

Friday, 21 February, 2025

The Economics Show podcast34 min listen

Why are birth rates falling? With Alice Evans

Birth rates are plunging in most countries

Monday, 10 February, 2025

The Economics Show podcast35 min listen

Is innovation slowing down? With Matt Clancy

Can science keep delivering breakthrough discoveries and economic growth?

Friday, 31 January, 2025

Data PointsSocial affairs

How undercounting immigration skews narratives

The US and UK have been underestimating population growth but with diverging implications

Friday, 24 January, 2025

Data PointsGeneration Z

Gen Z Americans are leaving their European cousins in the dust

Millennials across the west were united in their economic malaise. Their successors not so much

Saturday, 18 January, 2025

Data PointsMental health

Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health

Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?

Saturday, 11 January, 2025

Data PointsDemographics and population

The relationship recession is going global

A rise in the number of single people is becoming a key driver of falling birth rates

Friday, 3 January, 2025

Data PointsGlobal inequality

Inequality hasn’t risen. Here’s why it feels like it has

What appears on the surface to be a flat trend masks churn beneath

Monday, 30 December, 2024

The Big Read

What the ‘year of democracy’ taught us, in 6 charts

The billions who voted in 2024 sent an angry message to incumbents, and warmed to populists on left and right

Sunday, 22 December, 2024

Populism

Year in a word: Incumbent

Being elected to government used to help you stay there. Now it may help push you out

Friday, 20 December, 2024

Data PointsSocial Media

Why the TikTok era spells trouble for the establishment

Populism is the winner in the shift from traditional to social media and from text to video and audio

Tuesday, 17 December, 2024

Transport

Manchester mayor hails bus reform but rural leaders lukewarm

Funding fears loom over UK government’s plan to improve struggling services through franchising powers

Saturday, 14 December, 2024

Data PointsUK society

The London problem is holding young Brits back

Americans and Europeans have a choice of places to prosper

Friday, 6 December, 2024

Data PointsUK economy

What if the UK isn’t actually the sick man of Europe?

Britain’s illness-related inactivity crisis looks increasingly like a mirage

Friday, 29 November, 2024

Data PointsUS opioid epidemic

Fentanyl deaths are falling. What’s behind the decline?

The evidence points to changes in the drug supply

Saturday, 23 November, 2024

Meta Platforms

Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X

Social media giant’s Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges

Friday, 15 November, 2024

Data PointsUS politics & policy

Trump broke the Democrats’ thermostat

The American left was sent spinning in 2016 and is yet to recalibrate

Saturday, 9 November, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Poorer voters flocked to Trump — and other data points from the election

FT analysis of this week’s election results paint a dire picture for the Democrats