More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Available now

Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
How worrying is the UK’s jump in cases? Plus balancing risks and the speed of jelly-fish.

Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
Evidence on Covid-19 risks in schools, data on contact tracing, and a philosophical query.

Covid plasma therapy
Claims about a Covid-19 treatment, breast cancer screening, and 18th century sex workers.

A-level algorithms, poker and buses
We unpick the A-level algoshambles and discover what poker teaches us about statistics.

Belarus’ contested election
Tim Harford looks at the numbers behind the widely questioned election result

Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK - is it a sign of a second wave of the virus?

Melting Antarctic ice
If all the ice in Antarctica melted, would global sea levels rise by 70 metres?

Covid in Africa
Do we have enough data to know what’s happening on the continent?

Data in the time of cholera
A journey back to the birth of epidemiology

Covid misconceptions and US deaths
How many of us believe the myths about coronavirus?