Archive: version 1.0.0
What this site and its briefing paper said when they were first published on 24 March 2026, kept exactly as it was. Some of it was wrong. We have not hidden it: it is here, marked, with the reasons in the changelog.
Read it
- The Economic Impact Model, as a web page with every affected cell outlined, showing what it displayed and what it should have displayed.
- The briefing paper, with what was wrong in it.
- All the original site text, English and Welsh, line by line, with the retired claims flagged.
- 23 retired or corrected claims, each quoted as published.
Originals, unaltered
Each file is served byte for byte. To check that one has not been changed, compare its checksum: shasum -a 256 <file>.
| File | SHA-256 |
|---|---|
| Briefing paper, March 2026 (superseded) — The paper as emailed on 23 March 2026 and offered for download on the first site. It contains claims we have retired (see the changelog). | c5d4c53d6204ad8f31fc5b3c8dd16319d70127b913aaf0567e61b16efdb8d369 |
| Economic Impact Model, version 1 (retired) — The workbook exactly as published. It contains a unit error in 'Investment & Returns'!B6 and several unsupported conclusions. The annotated web view marks every affected cell. | 4f5d58036d3743c9caf5021228f2b8a16287fce3ae8de023b5f3521b4b1641f6 |
| /api/works as served on 2 October 2026 (version 1 code) — The complete response, including the 'energy' block with the 718,803 MWh figure, captured from the live site before the change. | 3de737cd2c7d0a7c48a5263e4b77e3b53c5f703c0cac91f2d2dfb212781724a9 |
| /api/stats as served on 2 October 2026 (version 1 code) — The complete response, including wastePerSecond (2.06) and the hard-coded unemployment table. | fc2ac6bda32163b68fa27d18ae77126337ec3235f600122ce11f8da50182ed64 |
| Page title and social-card text (index.html), version 1 — The page description and social-card text, including '718,803 MWh' and '2,800+ jobs'. | fa90ad97475732e6c2e9f1224451a0a4e4ed1887a4da8fcfa95f9aebfab62332 |
| Social image, version 1 — The picture shown when the site was shared, with '718,803 MWh' and '2,800+ jobs'. | 1bf3acdbdedf2d247db94154f03605a03402673f9aaeb871998a5d5c49b84e43 |
| All site text, English and Welsh, version 1 — Every line of text on the first site in both languages, as source code. See also the table at /archive/v1/text. | 3e8dde0d7babaab255fcfb59d7b39512e3cc9bbb16d07b2b8f6840d981a7b1bf |
Old links keep working: /briefing.docx, /model and /model.xlsx still lead to the originals.