Line chart showing how, in his second term, Donald Trump is passing an unprecedented number of orders.

📈 This chart has become the favourite thing I have automated. It's clear, Donald Trump is passing an unprecedented number of orders. My colleague @tomcalver.bsky.social and I have been keeping tabs on many other metrics in this tracker piece👇

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Dot plot showing how ethnic minorities make up a large proportion of knife crime fatalities while making up a smaller percentage of the population.

📊 Favourite bit of #dataviz is this from @narottam.dev showing how disproportionate knife crime is. For example, in London in 2023, 53% of people killed in a homicide using a knife were black, but black people make up only 13% of the capital’s population — a difference of 40 percentage points.

Knife crime is rising — we looked at the data to find out why Analysing a decade of crime statistics exposes the scale of fatal stabbings and knife possession across England and Wales

🚨 NEW: Working with the excellent @davidwoode.bsky.social, we looked at knife crime and analysed who are the perpetrators and who are the victims @thetimes.com 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Following the latest NHS flu figures across the Christmas period, NHS directors warn of pressure on hospitals due to spread of winter quad-demic (flu, Covid, norovirus and respiratory syncytial virus)

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Why Liverpool may be unwilling to give Mo Salah the deal he wants Given the 32-year-old’s present form, the case for meeting his contract demands may seem convincing, but the stats show a sharp drop-off once forwards reach the age of 33

🧵 Mo Salah is playing some of his best football at the age of 3️⃣2️⃣ but will Liverpool offer him a new deal? The amazing @hkhaliqueloonat.bsky.social and I looked at how forwards age and the risks involved offering older players lucrative contracts @thetimes.com

#ddj
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The hospitals where 1 in 4 patients wait more than 12 hours in A&E Doctors warn of ‘life or death’ delays that kill thousands of patients a year as NHS figures reveal the longest waits in the worst-performing emergency units

At the worst-performing NHS hospitals, 1 in 4 patients have to endure 12 hour waits in A&E after arriving.

Long delays are causing thousands of avoidable deaths.

Story with @gwjournalism.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

⚽️ First post on here just had to be about football... fun collab with the sports desk looking at if the Premier League has become too formulaic and how the spectacle has disappeared from the game. One of the main discoveries was the death of the long ball...
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🗞️ More and more Times and Sunday Times journalists and staff are joining BlueSky.

We’ll be updating this starter kit as they do so, you should give them a follow

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