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    Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

    Council tax comparisons, migration calculations and the carbon footprint of home-grown veg

  2. A pocket-size history of the calculator

    Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers

  3. Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

    Is measles spreading? How much is Brexit costing? How good are they at traitor guessing?

  4. Is Oxfam right about the world鈥檚 richest and poorest people?

    We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality

  5. Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

    We investigate the cost of a weekly shop and explore the workings of wind chill.

  6. Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

    We investigate how the vast possibilities in chess compare to the vastness of the universe

  7. Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

    How long will we live? Who pays inheritance tax? How did the NHS perform this winter?

  8. Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?

    We investigate the claim that each of us sees thousands of adverts every single day

  9. Deaths, taxes and missing cats

    We investigate claims about gun crime, the UK tax burden, and the number of missing cats.

  10. How much money do the 鈥楴drangheta mafia make?

    We investigate whether one criminal group could have a turnover of billions of dollars

  11. Numbers of the year 2023

    Hand-picked stats that tell you something interesting about the world

  12. Can chocolate be better than salad?

    We investigate a nutritional conundrum 鈥� can chocolate ever be better for you than salad?

  13. China鈥檚 missing numbers

    How the Chinese state make inconvenient statistics disappear

  14. Does endurance sport harm your heart?

    We investigate the connection between high levels of exercise and arrhythmia

  15. Will there be a billion climate refugees?

    We investigate if floods, droughts and storms will cause mass international migration

  16. A boy meets girl meets stats story

    A data scientist takes on rom com films to see how women in STEM are represented

  17. Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?

    Checking out stats on boozing Brits and fishing fleets in the South China Sea.

  18. Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

    We look a famous equation which tries to explain whether life exists in outer space

  19. Do Indian women own 11% of the world鈥檚 gold?

    The cultural importance of gold is well known 鈥� but how much do Indians actually own?

  20. The overlooked mathematicians of history

    A global history of mathematics, from ancient China to the Middle East

  21. What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?

    We ask whether the 鈥榳indscreen phenomenon鈥� suggests falling numbers of insects

  22. Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

    Tim Harford discusses the work of Nobel Economics prize winner Claudia Goldin

  23. Are half the words in English from French?

    We ask whether almost half the words in the English language are of French origin.

  24. Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times

    We debunk claims about excess deaths and the vaccine made by YouTuber John Campbell.

  25. Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?

    As the UK changes course in its path to net zero, how does it compare with other nations?

  26. NHS consultant pay, net zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes

    Are consultants in England really paid an average of 拢120,000 a year?

  27. Which city has the longest canals?

    We dive into the world of waterways after a listener asked who has the longest canals.

  28. Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims

    Have the Tories really built a record number of social rent homes since 2010?

  29. How to approach the world through numbers

    Professor David Sumpter talks to Tim Harford about his new book

  30. Skin cancer, London rents and your great-great-great-granddaughter

    Is it true that 1 in 4 men and 1 in 5 women in the UK will get skin cancer?

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