John Burn-Murdoch

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

A whole lot of people are telling you that AI is going to kill jobs and increase inequality. They have no idea what they're talking about. noahpinion.blog/p/stop-pretend…

The dataset behind this famous chart on the declining cost of genome sequencing has had its NIH funding cut. It tracked progress towards & beyond an ambitious goal ($1000 genome) that succeeded. Could any funders rescue the project? Sharing this would be very appreciated.

Like many fans, I have found football radars to be really helpful, as they are visually very intuitive and easy to understand. Today we launch our own version to highlight the financial strengths and weaknesses of football clubs, comparing Premier League clubs with their peers.

I'm very proud to have won the Royal Statistical Society's award for best statistical commentary by a non-journalist this year 🥹 The award was for my piece "The rise in reported US maternal mortality rates is largely due to a change in measurement", which looked at the impact…

Heard the one about how UK services exports were booming after Brexit?? Another myth sadly... My column ft.com/content/3e9dcd…

New post: MAGA energy policy means raising electricity prices to own the libs Sacrificing material prosperity for post-material politics used to be what I thought the far right called "woke." But this is exactly what the Big Beautiful Bill does on energy policy. It singles out…