Barometer | 27 June 2013

Field reports

The Glastonbury Festival is once again being held at Michael Eavis’s dairy farm at Pilton, just outside the Somerset town. The venues of some other famous festivals: — Monterey: the festival most associated with the 1967 ‘Summer of Love’ was held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, previously used for jazz festivals. — Woodstock: the 1969 festival was to have been held on an industrial park, but the local council placed a restriction limiting attendance to 5,000, so it moved to a dairy farm owned by Max Yasgur. He was paid $50,000 but was barred from the local shop. — Isle of Wight: the third Isle of Wight festival became the largest festival ever staged, with 600,000 attending. The site, East Afton Farm, was chosen by the local council against the wishes of the organisers, who feared correctly that it would attract people trying to avoid paying for a ticket.

Leaders and followers

If elections were decided by the number of Twitter followers…

Boris Johnson	729,000
David Cameron	347,000
Ed Miliband	223,000
David Miliband	133,000
Nick Clegg	116,000
Ed Balls	93,100
Nigel Farage	86,000
George Osborne	51,000
Stephen Fry	5.9 million

Fractions of sections

Moors murderer Ian Brady appeared before a tribunal arguing that he should be transferred from secure psychiatric hospital to prison. Last year 48,600 people were detained under the Mental Health Act. These were the main reasons:

Medical referral for assessment	20,900
Medical referral for treatment	7,700
Referral by magistrates’ court or crown court for report	2,130
Admitted to psychiatric unit upon conviction	981
Transfer from prison under direction of secretary of state	468

Qualified success

How big a difference does education make to your employment prospects?

employment rate for ages 25 to 64
School-leavers
Australia	70%
Germany	60%
Sweden	72%
Spain	60%
UK	43%
US	51%

Graduates
Australia	86%
Germany	88%
Sweden	90%
Spain	80%
UK	84%
US	81%

Source: OECD