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28/01/2026
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life.
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21/01/2026
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life.
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14/01/2026
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life.
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Numbers of the Year 2025
A plethora of interesting numbers you may not know about.
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Were there really Three Wise Men?
From counting people to measuring housework - we explore.
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Do we really have ‘superflu’?
The NHS is warning of an unprecedented flu season - we check.
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Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?
Farm tax, ADHD benefits, Movember claim and Tim’s marathon.
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Does half the UK get more in benefits than they pay in tax?
UK benefits, Zack Polanski’s billionaire claim and Gen Z job interviews.
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Has Donald Trump ended seven 'unendable' wars?
Trump’s peace deals, Labour’s GDP claim and university league tables
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Was it easier to deport migrants to France before Brexit?
Migrant returns, ageing mistakes, beef prices and AI MP speeches.
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Is it true that out-of-work benefits have almost doubled?
Out-of-work benefits, French pensioners, surprising salmon and the truth about senses.
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Are Afghan nationals more likely to be convicted of sexual offences?
National debt, Afghan crime, menopause retirement and literal snail pace.
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Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?
Plus, the UK’s expensive electricity, church counts and babies in the City of London.
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Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?
Plus: PIP claims, immigrant returns and spotting golf balls on the moon.
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Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?
Plus, nuclear enrichment numbers, Curtice on Curtis and Viking economics.
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Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?
Plus, asylum seeker hotel bill, Scottish water use and 1950s childcare claim.
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How do you make something 10-times more lethal?
Plus, the Sycamore Gap tree, pensioner-worker ratios and yoga v fishers.
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Does the average American have fewer than three friends?
Plus, skilled migrants, preventing Alzheimer’s and Robert Prevost on God and probability.
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The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula
Also, counting bobbies, freezing tax and electrocuting redheads
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Is one in four people in the UK disabled?
Plus, what has Canada done to Donald Trump? Is Rachel Reeves chasing the model?
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Could a 2% wealth tax raise £24bn?
Plus, did trillions disappear from UK pensions? Why does the UK have a lot of old housing?
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Why are more people claiming disability benefits?
Plus, UK v Russia on free speech and the collapse of the Labour Force Survey.
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How did lockdown impact children?
Five years on, Tim Harford looks at the data on the effect of lockdown.
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DOGE, apples and irregular migrants
Fact-checking government efficiency claims in the US.
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Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths
The numbers behind Ukraine’s rare earth worth and the UK’s defence spending ambitions.
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Are older drivers more dangerous?
Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits.
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When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?
Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?
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Should the government target persnuffle?
Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter’s origin story.
