This is the 75th issue of Prospect. Since the first was published in September 1995, the world's population has increased by around 531m. That's about 26,550 times as many people as Prospect's current circulation.
Almost half of France's MPs are on leave from the civil service. [The Economist, 27th April 2002]
The EU duty on offal is 252 per cent.[Prospect, p65]
Of those who participated in Britain's local elections on 2nd May, 94 per cent voted for a candidate of one of the three major parties. [Guardian, 4th May 2002]
Buckingham Palace's annual electricity bill is ?330,000. [Guardian, 20th April 2002]
The number of children attending boarding school rose by over 1 per cent in 2002-the first increase since 1987. The number of girls boarding increased by 2.5 per cent. [Boarding Schools' Association, 2002]
This year, the University of California system has admitted more ethnic minority students than it did in 1997, when it last had affirmative action admissions policies. [Chronicle of Higher Education, 8th April 2002]
In 2000, employees in Britain stayed in jobs for an average of seven years and four months. Ten years earlier, they stayed for six years and two months. [Economic and Social Research Council, 2002]
Bill Clinton will earn about $40m for speaking engagements and his memoirs in the first two years after leaving office. [Newsweek, 8th April 2002]
Premiership wages increased at a compound annual rate of 25.8 per cent throughout the 1990s. [England's Premier Clubs, Deloitte & Touche, 2001]
Up to 50,000 recruits from around 50 countries passed through the al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. [The Times, 29th December 2001]
