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More or Less: The UK Economy

Series 851, episode 4

Conservative politicians have taken to the airwaves to tell us to forget the parties, and just look at the economic growth - but is the UK really growing faster than other leading economies? The Omicron variant has raised the chance that people are re-infected with Covid - how common is that, and should it change the way statistics reported each day are interpreted? In the wake of the death of renown statistician David Cox, a look at his life and his contribution to the science of counting. Plus, does comparing the number of food banks to the number of McDonald's restaurants in the UK reveal anything about food poverty?

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Tim Harford