Senior Data journalist at The Times and Sunday Times. Views are my own
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George Willoughby
📈 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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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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🗞️ 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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🧵 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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📊 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.
🚨 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 👇
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⚽️ 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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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
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George Willoughby
Yennah Smart
The Times and Sunday Times
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
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
