Well, how long do you think it will be before the government suddenly discovers that the Office for Statistics Regulation is a waste of its funding? No doubt ministers thought it was doing a good job but then its algorithm mutated and it started telling the truth about stuff. Government department? Not telling porkies? Displaying signs of competence? This’ll never do. Disband it immediately. Send all staff to the sheep-counting promulgation initiative in the Falklands.