Peter Rhodes on space junk, troublesome statistics and Labour's plum place in conference season

I asked the question last month: “Who can guess how the case against Lucy Letby will stand up to repeated appeals?” Now the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is calling for the inquiry into the case to cover statistical evidence used in the trial. As the RSS puts it: “It is far from straightforward to draw conclusions from suspicious clusters of deaths in a hospital setting.” Watch this space.