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Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland

Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.
Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity

Is the coronavirus pandemic having a different impact on men and women?
Supermarket price wars

Tim Harford on National Literacy Trust figures and the maths of supermarket price wars.
Superforecasting the Coronavirus

Can professional predictors help us understand the course of the coronavirus pandemic?
Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

Tim Harford on sugar, train fares, children's outdoors play and Earth's closest neighbour
Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

How can we clearly explain complex numbers to the public without losing their meaning?
Student Loans

The cost of the government's new student loan system is rising according to a recent...
Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15

Are stroke numbers on the rise? This was according to recent headlines.
Striking Numbers

Tim Harford asks are strikes on the rise, rugby players bigger and sea life in decline?
Street grooming

We look at street grooming, examine the new bank taxes, revisit Ambridge in the wake...
Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day

Measuring plastic pollution, female FTSE directors and counting animal offspring.
Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is accused of mis-using official statistics.
Stamp prices and the first maths book

The Royal Mail says UK stamp prices are still among the best value in Europe, despite...
Spreadsheet snafu, 鈥楲ong Covid鈥� quantified, and the birth of probability

Missing coronavirus case data, long-term symptoms, and a big mathematical moment.
Spreadsheet disasters

The long and costly history of spreadsheet mistakes
Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks

Can security services follow everyone known to them?
Species in Decline?

The coverage of the Living Planet Index and its claim that species populations have in...
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims

Have the Tories really built a record number of social rent homes since 2010?
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing

Where do the different social distancing measurements come from?
Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?

Diabetes cases are soaring, but is this down to new diagnoses? Tim Harford investigates.
Small spending cuts?

Tim Harford is back with a new series of More or Less, and the numbers behind the news.
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?
Sizing up cities

Which are the world鈥檚 biggest cities, and what are their populations? Two simple we...
Sir Roger Bannister's 鈥榠mpossible鈥� feat

Sir Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes 60 ago.
Simpson鈥檚 Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

A tricky statistical phenomenon at play.
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

How do bank runs happen?
Should you wear a face mask?

Tim Harford looks at the debate over making your own Covid-19 protection.
Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

Does inflation hit poor households harder and how many people have died of Covid?
Should we have smaller families to save the planet?

Having one fewer child could be the biggest thing you do to reduce your carbon footprint
Should the government target persnuffle?

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