More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Council tax comparisons, migration calculations and the carbon footprint of home-grown veg
A pocket-size history of the calculator
Tim Harford explores the history of calculators from clockwork to the Kashio brothers
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Is measles spreading? How much is Brexit costing? How good are they at traitor guessing?
Is Oxfam right about the world鈥檚 richest and poorest people?
We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
We investigate the cost of a weekly shop and explore the workings of wind chill
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
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?
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
We investigate the claim that each of us sees thousands of adverts every single day
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
We investigate claims about gun crime, the UK tax burden, and the number of missing cats
How much money do the 鈥楴drangheta mafia make?
We investigate whether one criminal group could have a turnover of billions of dollars
