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John Burn-Murdoch
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Columnist and chief data reporter @FinancialTimes | Stories, stats & scatterplots | Senior fellow @LSEdataScience | [email protected]
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Mar 31, 2023
    NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Jan 26, 2024
    NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world. I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Sep 16, 2022
    NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef2654… Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread:
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Jan 7, 2021
    NEW: a common response to reports of hospitals struggling this winter is "it’s no different to a bad flu season!" I’ve tracked down historical data on flu ICU admissions, including winter 2017-18, a record high. Here’s how England’s Covid winter compares to a bad flu season 📹
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Jul 5, 2024
    I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote. Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else. Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Mar 14, 2022
    NEW: I’m not sure people appreciate quite how bad the Covid situation is in Hong Kong, nor what might be around the corner. First, an astonishing chart. After keeping Covid at bay for two years, Omicron has hit HK and New Zealand, but the outcomes could not be more different.
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Dec 30, 2022
    NEW: conservatives have a Millennials problem. In both UK & US, it’s not just that Millennials aren’t voting conservative because they’re young. Every previous generation grew more conservative with age, but Millennials are not playing ball. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/a0c1c1b…
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Mar 29, 2020
    Love to have credit to my work and @FinancialTimes cropped out by a Nobel prize winning economist. I think in economics they call this the free rider problem.
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    Paul Krugman
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    Mar 29, 2020
    America's response to the coronavirus is the worst in the world, which is shocking and has a lot to do with a leader who is completely unfit, temperamentally and intellectually, for the job 1/
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    May 26, 2023
    NEW: last week a group of US hardline conservatives brought the National Conservatism conference to London. It fell completely flat. Why? Because Britain and America are completely different societies. Key chart: UK Cons are *way* more liberal than US Reps on ~every measure.
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Nov 25, 2021
    Five quick tweets on the new variant B.1.1.529 Caveat first: data here is *very* preliminary, so everything could change. Nonetheless, better safe than sorry. 1) Based on the data we have, this variant is out-competing others *far* faster than Beta and even Delta did 🚩🚩
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Mar 14, 2025
    NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s. What should we make of this?
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Mar 18, 2019
    New project: A “Bar Chart Race” animation showing the changing ranks of the 10 biggest cities in the world since 1500. Fascinating to watch giant cities vanish after falling in conquests, and amazing that three UK cities were in the top 8 in the late 1800s.
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Oct 4, 2024
    NEW: we may have passed peak obesity 🎉📈📉🙏 In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.
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    John Burn-Murdoch
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    Feb 15, 2021
    When lockdown is getting me down, I like to look at Israeli hospital data