@fransham.bsky.social
Data journalist @ The Economist Newspaper. Covering everything under the sun, but now with a British focus.
I'm calling it: peak Nigel.
Reform UK hitting their ceiling at 30%; Tories and Labour bottoming out, too.
Just updated: www.economist.com/interactive/... [no paywall]
Gen Z, a much maligned and panicked-about generation, are behind a remarkable collapse in weekend violence. Great reporting from @fransham.bsky.social
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
sparky prices
...and why they hate heat-pumps
03.02.2025 16:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
gas prices
Why Brits love gas boilers...
03.02.2025 16:51 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
🗳️🇩🇪 We have launched our German election forecast!
The hard-right AfD is 2nd in the polls and has been gaining ground on the centre-right CDU/CSU. But none of the other parties want to work with it.
Which coalitions will be possible? Follow the runners & riders:
www.economist.com/interactive/...
My latest piece looks at what measures might save most lives: repairing roads, reducing speed limits and tackling bad driving. Taken together Britain should be able to reduce deaths to under 1,000 per year within the next decade.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Although roads are much safer than they were, progress in reducing deaths has slowed over the past decade. The government is working on a new "road safety strategy" that is likely to see it adopt a Scandinavian-like "Vision Zero": the idea that the only acceptable number of road deaths is nil.
29.01.2025 14:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Every day around five people die on roads across Britain. We accept 1,600 deaths a year as simply the cost of going about our daily lives. But if the same happened for planes, trains or ships then these modes of transport would be at a standstill.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
The UK government has set a lofty goal of "ending homelessness for good". But homelessness in England has increased by 26% over the past five years. My reporting from the streets of Manchester demonstrates how difficult it will be to tackle.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Telecoms pioneer no more...
27.11.2024 14:51 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Which company should you work for if you want to get ahead?
To find out The Economist has created a new index with the Burning Glass Institute, a think-tank.
Explore how 151 of Britain's biggest and most well-known firms are rated, here: www.economist.com/opportunity-...
Chart showing the average download speed of mobile networks in selected countries. Britain ranks 46th out of 56.
Excellent piece by @fransham.bsky.social about Britain's pathetic mobile service. Download it on wifi if you're in central London
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
It has long been a pioneer in telecoms: the first commercial telegraph in the 1800s; the first transatlantic telephone call in the 1920s; and the first text message in 1992. But today this country has the rich world's worst mobile service:
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
