Healthy life expectancy in the UK is the LOWEST since @ONS started recording it in 2011. Men can expect to live in 'good' general health until aged 60.7, women 60.9 - two or three years LESS than it was a decade ago.
New figures show the HOMICIDE rate in Eng/Wales last year was the LOWEST since 1977. The @ONS data also shows the FEWEST teenage homicide victims since 2013 and the FEWEST stabbing victims since 2015. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
You have never been less likely to be murdered. Or have your bike nicked. @markeaston1.bsky.social: markeastonmedia.substack.com/p/broken-bri...
Broken Britain? Not according to today’s crime figures.
The risks of being a victim of crime are, quite probably, lower now than they have been since records began.
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My FESTIVE FAMILY PUZZLER 2025 is now available - the perfect answer for all your Christmas quizzing needs. It's the quiz where no-one needs to know the answers... open.substack.com/pub/markeast...
A link to my🎄FESTIVE FAMILY PUZZLER🎄 will be published here later today. It is the perfect quiz accompaniment for any Christmas gathering. Requiring judgment and top guessing rather than actual knowledge, it is perfect for almost all ages.
After a worrying dip around the pandemic, life expectancy in the UK is rising again. New official figures show it is 83 for women and 79.1 for men. @ONS
Data from @ukhomeoffice suggests improved asylum processing is cutting the backlog, even with new claims at close to record levels. Fewer people in the system should, in time, reduce the need for hotels and the multi-billion pound bill.
You won't find this important story on your news feed BUT.... figures just out show homicides in England & Wales at their LOWEST level since comparable records began back in 2003. @ONS
Statistics from ONS today show 29.7% of conceptions in England & Wales led to abortion in 2022, UP from 26.5% in 2021 and the HIGHEST on record.
Political parties should learn from the Papal conclave on how to choose a leader, Robert Harris tells me. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Conclave author Robert Harris says papal selection is like Traitors TV show
Robert Harris says the dynamic of the secretive ritual "is why often it produces a surprise".
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Still ridiculously unaffordable and prompting a crisis in homelessness in Eng/Wales, BUT... median house sale prices UP 1% (2021-2024) average earnings UP 20% (2021-2024). www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Housing affordability in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics
Data on house prices and annual earnings to calculate affordability ratios for national and subnational geographies in England and Wales on an annual basis.
ons.gov.uk
I have Argentina to thank for my marriage — it was only right to finally visit www.thetimes.com/article/8451...
I have Argentina to thank for my marriage — it was only right to finally visit
More than 40 years after Mark Easton and his wife met thanks to her reporting from the country, they discover a vastly different place — from Buenos Aires to the Iguazu Falls
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The odd aspect of this is the Home Office slipping this change out on Monday when they were very publicly trying to convince voters they were getting tough with ‘illegal’ migration. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK to reject 'dangerous journey' refugees citizenship
The Home Office change has been condemned by the Refugee Council and some Labour backbench MPs.
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My Boxing Day Family Puzzler has a new home - on Substack. If you are after an old-style paper and pen quiz to boggle your household, it's just the thing. substack.com/@markeaston3...
Mark Easton on Substack
I have decided that Substack is the perfect new home for my Boxing Day Family Puzzler, the festive quiz in which no-one is expected to know the answers. You simply have to get closer to the answer tha...
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Muhammad has replaced Noah as the top name for baby boys in England and Wales. It was second in 2022 and has been in the top 10 since 2016. Noah was second and Oliver third. Olivia was the most popular girls name for the eighth year in a row. Amelia and Isla were second and third. #ONS