By: Billy Ehrenberg

Billy Ehrenberg is a Data Journalist and Content Developer at City A.M. He can be contacted at billy.ehrenberg@cityam.com. He is particularly passionate about data visualisation and telling stories with numbers.

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The UK is creating a social media army

January 31, 2015

The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. The Simpsons missed one important point: the wars of the future [...]
Police Federation calls for all UK officers to have tasers to defend against terrorists

January 31, 2015

All police officers in the UK could be about to get tasers as fears grow over a possible terrorist attack aimed at members of the police force. According to the Guardian, Steve White, the chairman of the Police Federation, has called for a change from the current system where 10 per cent of officers carry [...]
Greece is on collision course with the troika

January 31, 2015

The troika. Two words that have long struck fear into the hearts of those opposed to austerity, but perhaps, in Greece no longer. The European Central Bank, the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund have often descended on Greece since it received its first bailout in 2010. But Greece is under new management, and [...]
32 charts showing every unemployment rate in every Eurozone economy

January 30, 2015

The Eurozone has finally had some good news: unemployment is down to 11.4 per cent, its lowest rate since August 2012. Although admittedly, 11.4 per cent would cause a mutiny in the UK. The figure’s drop was relatively small: it was 11.5 per cent in November and 11.8 per cent in December. And chipping fractions [...]
test

January 30, 2015

Ukip seems set to run its 2015 general election campaign on the back of the UK’s distrust of Europe and concerns about immigration. According to new analysis of 2011 census data by the Office for National statistics, the vast majority of migration is domestic: residents move between areas far more often than they come from [...]
Ukip mapped: How UK immigration breaks down

January 30, 2015

Ukip seems set to run its 2015 General Election campaign on the back of the UK’s distrust of Europe and concerns about immigration. According to new analysis of 2011 census data by the Office for National Statistics, the vast majority of migration is domestic; residents move between areas far more often than they come from [...]
UK GDP: Fourth quarter growth falls short of expectations

January 27, 2015

UK GDP growth slowed in the fourth quarter of 2014, coming in at 0.5 per cent and falling short of expectations. Despite the drop, growth for the year was still 2.6 per cent, the fastest growth rate since the heady days of 2007. Economists polled by Reuters had expected slightly faster quarterly growth of 0.6 per [...]
Eurozone quantitative easing: Draghi says majority was “so large that we didn’t need to take a vote”

January 22, 2015

Such was the level of agreement on the board at the European Central Bank (ECB) regarding the new €1.1tn (£840bn) quantitative easing programme, that there was no need to take a vote. Mario Draghi, president of the ECB, said in the usual post-meeting press conference that there was a good discussion between members over the [...]
Four charts that sum up what’s happening with government borrowing

January 22, 2015

Since the Conservatives' election posters claimed to have halved the deficit, public sector borrowing figures have come under increasing scrutiny – and new figures out today paint a picture of government borrowing possibly being back on track. The most recent numbers from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) include a few headline-grabbers: excluding public sector [...]
D3 test

January 21, 2015

Prem Rugby Big Match Bonanza test of sport’s commercial aims

London Marathon could have 100,000 runners in 2027

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