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  1. Plenty more fish in the sea?

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

  2. Plastic Bags

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

  3. Pizza and Nuclear War

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

  4. 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?

  5. Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.

    In the week of a nationwide strike over pension changes, Tim Harford explains how the...

  6. Pensioners aren't poor anymore

    High-rolling pensioners? predicting Norovirus, air pollution deaths and lost or found?

  7. Pension Charges

    When the government announced that fees charged by pension providers could be capped,...

  8. Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000

    Why Paul Ehrlich’s dire predictions about a population collapse failed to materialise

  9. Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

    The scale of the disaster is huge, but is a third of Pakistan really under water?

  10. One in 500 Year Storm

    Experts say that Houston just suffered a one in 500 year storm but what does that mean?

  11. Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

    An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.

  12. Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?

    What does the data show about whether this wave of the epidemic is waning in the UK?

  13. Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs

    Tim Harford looks at how recent obesity projections were calculated.

  14. Obesity crisis?

    Tim Harford discovers that health statistics contradict a report which says obesity is...

  15. Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts

    Are nurses paid more than the national average? We take a look.

  16. Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

    We look at how much nurses in the UK are paid compared with those in Europe.

  17. Nurses, flatmates and cats

    We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing

  18. Numbers of the year: Part two

    Tim Harford showcases statistics from 2020

  19. Numbers of the year: Part one

    Tim Harford showcases statistics from 2020

  20. Numbers of the year part 2

    Our listeners favourite numbers of 2024.

  21. Numbers of the year 2026

    From passenger numbers to world cup travel, we cast our eye forwards into 2026

  22. Numbers of the year 2025

    A plethora of interesting numbers you may not know about

  23. Numbers of the year 2025

    From tariffs to comets, we look back at the numbers of 2025 across the world

  24. Numbers of the year 2024

    We ask experts about their favourite stats from 2024.

  25. Numbers of the year 2023

    Hand-picked stats that tell you something interesting about the world

  26. Numbers of the Year 2022

    Tim Harford and guests on the numbers that help tell the big stories of the year.

  27. Numbers of the Year 2015

    A look back at some of the numbers behind the news in 2015 with Tim Harford.

  28. Numbers of the Year 2014.

    Tim Harford and guests look back at some of the weird and wonderful numbers of 2014.

  29. Numbers of the year

    A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic of by...

  30. Numbers of 2021

    The most significant numbers of the year

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