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Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

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

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Election claims and erection claims

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

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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.

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Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

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

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

Plus migrants v pensioners and Ed Miliband?s energy auction claim.

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How do you count millionaires?

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

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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

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

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How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

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

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Should the government target persnuffle?

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

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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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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

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

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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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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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DOGE, apples and irregular migrants

Fact-checking government efficiency claims in the US.

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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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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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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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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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The mistake in Trump?s tariff formula

Also, counting bobbies, freezing tax and electrocuting redheads

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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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