The Latest Breaking News from Office for National Statistics

Number of vacancies falls and more people rejoin workforce – but work is needed on skills and ill health

Evidence of cooling in demand for labour amid 136,000 drop in employees between March and April

An embarrassing day is coming for Australian businesses that have a large gender pay gap, with the data from individual organisations to be made public.

A TORY MP referred to an antisemitic conspiracy theory in a chilling speech at a conservative conference in Westminster on Monday.

In December 2022 the number of excess deaths was 5,900, which is 13.5 per cent above the five-year average

Conversations about the weather are rarely actually about the weather. As the social anthropologist Kate Fox writes in her brilliant and often snort-inducing book, Watching the English, weather chat is in fact “a form of code, evolved to help us overcome our natural reserve and actually talk to each other.”…

Women are also more concerned than men about global warming

Retail bosses under pressure as food inflation proves more ‘sticky’ than expected

THE UK economy marginally grew over the first quarter of the year, according to official data, despite an unexpected slump in March.