Which are our most popular museums?

Volt-face

Luton’s Vauxhall plant is to close, partly because of the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate which obliges manufacturers to sell increasing proportions of electric vehicles. Remarkably, the history of the electric car can be traced back half a century earlier than the combustion engine. There are several possible claims as to who built the first road-going electric-powered vehicle, but one is a Scottish inventor, Robert Davidson, who produced one in the 1830s, about the same time as Thomas Davenport in Vermont. By the end of the 19th century electric cars were competing with petrol cars, but died out for the reasons the industry is struggling today: it was hard to recharge them and they couldn’t travel far on a charge.

Power shares

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change called for a ‘new nuclear age’. Which countries generated the biggest shares of power from nuclear last year?

France 65.3%

Slovakia 61.9%

Ukraine 50.7%

Finland 42.5%

Bulgaria 40.4%

Czech Rep. 39.9%

South Korea 29.4%

Sweden 29.1%

Source: Ember

Signed off

How many of the 7.2 million people on universal credit are looking for work?

No requirement to work 2.9m

Searching for work 1.7m

Already working and no requirement to find extra work 1.3m

Working and required to find extra 0.9m

Preparing for work 0.4m

Planning for work 0.1m

Source: Department for Work and Pensions

Museum pieces

Which museums are we visiting more – and less? Percentage change between September 2019 and September 2024:

Visited more

Royal Armouries Leeds 44%

Wallace Collection 17%

Natural History Museum 7%

British Museum 4%

Visited less

IWM Duxford (aircraft) -5%

National Portrait Gallery -8%

Churchill War Rooms -10%

Armouries, Tower of London -11%

National Railway Museum -17%

National Museums Liverpool -19%

Tate Britain -21%

National Gallery -22%

Royal Museums, Greenwich -28%

Science Museum -30%

Tate Modern -34%

Imperial War Museum (main site) -37%

Source: Dept for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport