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  1. Romanian Crime

    Are the statistics put forward by UKIP accurate, and are Romanians responsible for on...

  2. Rising drug overdose deaths

    In the US, more people are dying from drug overdoses than from road traffic accidents...

  3. Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

    Tim Harford and team fact check a government claim about falling reoffending rates

  4. Remembering Daniel Kahneman

    Tim Harford on the great social scientist, who has died at the age of 90

  5. Reducing your risk of death

    Can running and owning a dog reduce your risk of an early death?

  6. Red meat death risk?

    Eating an extra portion of red meat every day is associated with an increased risk of...

  7. Reason, numbers and Mr Spock

    What role do numbers play in helping us think more rationally?

  8. Ranking Iceland鈥檚 Football Team

    Are they the best in the world per capita?

  9. Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

    Do rail workers really earn 拢13,000 a year more than nurses?

  10. Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement

    In light of the Royal pregnancy Tim Harford asks what severe morning sickness tells us...

  11. Queuing Backwards

    Would life be better if we served the last person to join a queue not the first.

  12. Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

    We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl

  13. Questioning claims about Covid and children

    How likely are children to end up in hospital because of Covid? And how many have died?

  14. Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

    Is it true that Covid-19 mostly kills people who would die soon anyway?

  15. Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

    We analyse World Cup penalty data to ask what boosts the chance of scoring from the spot

  16. QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

    Fact checking a QAnon claim

  17. QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked

    Tackling statistics spread by conspiracy theorists.

  18. Public Sector Pay

    Investigating the public sector pay premium, statins and the 'decline effect'.

  19. Presidential candidates and dementia

    The health risks some of the frontrunners in the US presidential race face

  20. Pregnancy prohibitions 鈥� the evidence

    Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid.

  21. Predicting the Presidency

    Nate Silver tells us who will win the 2012 US election - and how he knows.

  22. Predicting the global population

    Predicting the global population: does anyone really know what鈥檚 going to happen?

  23. Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?

    This week six scientists and one ex-government official were sentenced to prison for...

  24. Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?

    Are more working families in poverty? Plus exploring the new school league tables.

  25. Post-Election Special

    The results of the general election are in - but what do they mean?

  26. Pop up economics

    Episode 1 of Tim Harford's new series, Pop Up Economics, in which he tells a live and...

  27. Polls, nuns and life partners

    On the eve of the UK's general election, Tim Harford takes a look at what polling data...

  28. Plenty more fish in the sea?

    Only 100 cod are left in the North Sea according to newspapers. Is this the most wrong...

  29. Plastic Bags

    Has a 5p charge caused a drop in the use of carrier bags?

  30. Pizza and Nuclear War

    How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid Nuclear War

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