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    The mistake in Trump鈥檚 tariff formula

    Also, counting bobbies, freezing tax and electrocuting redheads

  2. Is one in four people in the UK disabled?

    Plus, what has Canada done to Donald Trump? Is Rachel Reeves chasing the model?

  3. Could a 2% wealth tax raise 拢24bn?

    Plus, did trillions disappear from UK pensions? Why does the UK have a lot of old housing?

  4. Why are more people claiming disability benefits?

    Plus, UK v Russia on free speech and the collapse of the Labour Force Survey.

  5. How did lockdown impact children?

    Five years on, Tim Harford looks at the data on the effect of lockdown.

  6. DOGE, apples and irregular migrants

    Fact-checking government efficiency claims in the US.

  7. Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths

    The numbers behind Ukraine鈥檚 rare earth worth and the UK鈥檚 defence spending ambitions.

  8. Are older drivers more dangerous?

    Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.

  9. Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

    Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits.

  10. 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?

  11. Should the government target persnuffle?

    Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter鈥檚 origin story.

  12. How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

    Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.

  13. Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

    Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong.

  14. How do you count millionaires?

    Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease

  15. How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

    Plus migrants v pensioners and Ed Miliband鈥檚 energy auction claim.

  16. Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

    Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanian nurses in the UK.

  17. Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

    The UK's money troubles, NHS managers and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis.

  18. Election claims and erection claims

    What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?

  19. Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

    We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign.

  20. Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

    We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations.

  21. Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

    Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants.

  22. UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

    Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?

  23. MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)

    Will it take 685 years to clear the NHS waiting list? Are 10% of MPs under investigation?

  24. School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

    Is school funding at record levels? Did 6.5bn creatures come to the UK by plane last year?

  25. Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

    What does per capita GDP tell us? How much did the EU spend on Covid recovery?

  26. Debt, students, shark and chips

    What is the government鈥檚 rule on debt? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips?

  27. Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

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

  28. Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

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

  29. Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

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

  30. 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?

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