Britain publishes remarkable figures and almost nobody opens them.

Public bodies release thousands of spreadsheets a year. They are free, they are detailed, and they are almost unreadable: the figure that matters is usually two columns that nobody has divided, or one month that nobody has compared with the hundred and seventy before it. The work is not access. The work is attention.

So Public Figures reads them every morning and sends one email at half past ten with the most interesting thing in them, and keeps a permanent page for every place it covers. One number, plainly stated, ranked against its own history. No dashboards, no filters, no chart pickers, and no figure without a link to the file it came from.