There is no evidence of a deliberate attempt to bury the grim home-building figures, but it is a shame that Parliamentary debate of the housing strategy on Monday was denied the most recent information and that the sequence of events risks further damaging trust in the way politicians treat our national statistics.

BBC: Building trust in building statistics

As we move to electronic health records and potentially a world where there is much more health data in the form of DNA sequence and other information, I wonder how important privacy and secrecy really are.

FORBES: Diagnosis By Facebook: Can We Crowdsource Medicine?

Undeniably, the unravelling of the full sequence of the human genome a list, in order, of the chemical bases that encode the information needed to assemble and run a human body is a scientific wonder.

ECONOMIST: The genetic starting-line