The Catalan News Monitor is a useful English language site created by Plataforma pel Dret de Decidir, an umbrella organisation of more than 700 associations campaigning for the right to vote for independence. It has useful daily news summaries about Catalonia from local and international press and aggregates Twitter postings.
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Women and pension schemes
The latest annual report from Scottish Widows shows that more British are women saving into pension schemes. However women typically still saved less than men. The site has all reports published since 2008 so longer term trends can be traced. Other recommended sources include: Office of National Statistics pension trends IFS pensions research NAPF workplace […]
Whitehall Monitor 2014
The Institute for Government has released this fascinating annual report on the size and structure of UK government. Explore data on the resources of individual government departments.
A data revolution for all?
The UN Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development has just published a report called a World that Counts . This considers the nature and future implication of data inequality between ‘developed’ and ‘developing nations.’ For some great examples of open data initiatives try: UNdata EU Open data portal Open […]
Which countries are the most generous?
Find out from the latest World Giving Report published by the Charities Aid Foundation. It ranks nations according to 3 criterias: volunteering donating money and helping a stranger.
Is UK Higher Education Sustainable?
This question was considered by the Higher Education Commission who found the answer far from clear. Read their discussion of future options.
Christmas comes earlier every year!
The Royal Statistical Society recently published an essay based on Internet search terms which found that in 2007 people started thinking about Xmas in November however last year it was August!
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Try these recommended sources: BBC radio and TV archive footage 1948-1990 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg has 250 short videos on life in divided Berlin Chronicle of the Wall is a multimedia history compiled by Federal Centre for Political Education, Deutschlandradio and the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam Good contemporary news coverage of the 25th anniversary can […]
Facebook government data requests
The latest update from Facebook shows increasing demands from governments for data on users and content removal. It also provides information on legal challenges.
Standards of conduct in banking
Read the recent Financial Conduct Authority reports to find out which 5 banks it fined for failing to control business practices in their foreign exchange (FX) trading operations. Its website also has details of the wider Fair and Effective Markets Review The Bank of England released its own independent report into the role of its officials
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