Not to do so would be an insult to the public and the ideal of evidence-based policymaking

The reproduction measure hides a wealth of complications but is indispensable to decision-making

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If we've all become armchair epidemiologists, now more than ever we should be challenging our preconceptions

In the Covid-19 context, private companies are getting unprecedented access to information held by the health service

We might feel we're taking a break when we scroll on Twitter. But between reading updates, engaging with friends and shaping our online persona, being on social media has become a new type of work

The popularity of Amazon's Ring doorbell doesn't just expose our collective sense of vulnerability. It shows that "surveillance capitalism" has already been normalised

Most people seem to know what a vasectomy is. But few know its full, complicated history

This year’s winning Bennett Policy Prize proposal takes an insight from 1985 to address a very modern crisis