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Alan Smith leads the FT's newsroom team of data reporters and visual journalists. A data visualisation specialist, his TEDx talk Why You Should Love Statistics was featured on TED.com in 2017. Alan is the author of How Charts Work, a handbook on designing with data using the FT's principles.

Before he joined the FT, he was head of digital content at the UK Office for National Statistics where he was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to official statistics.

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  • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
    Global inflation
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    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Tracking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps

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  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
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  • Saturday, 12 November, 2022
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  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
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  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
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  • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
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    UK consumers among hardest hit as governments and EU move to tackle soaring costs of generating power

  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
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    Growth in the region fuelled 6 per cent rise in global use of the dirtiest fossil fuel in 2021

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
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    How the England men’s Test cricket team have transformed their fortunes

    Bold change of approach under new coach and captain has delivered a striking improvement in results

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    Climate change
    US’s climate legal cases boom, but not its laws

    World’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases historically stands out for lack of effective legislation

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    ExplainerGlobal inflation
    Reliance on Russian energy helps drive Europe’s uneven inflation surge

    Prices are increasing at different rates, with the cost of living rising fastest in the Baltic states and eastern Europe

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
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    The global stagflation shock of 2022: how bad could it get?

    The double blow of pandemic and war has caused inflation to surge and growth to slow around the world. But experts do not expect a return to the 1970s

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  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
    Antibiotic accountability: how countries and companies perform

    FT dashboard tracks responses to the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance

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