If I had to cull the number of accounts I follow on X to just ten, @ONS would make the grade.

As for the other 9, I’d be reluctant to say goodbye to @PaintingsLondon, @MattCartoonist, @createstreets or @DiaperDiplomacy but I reckon as long as I retained the Office for National Statistics I could continue to consider myself well informed.

This is a bit of a diversion away from what was meant to be a punchy column on population trends and housebuilding but it dawned on me as I turned (where else?) to the ONS for the latest on both topics........

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