Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
More or Less: Behind the Stats
The UK’s Covid cases are still rising and Scotland is being hit particularly hard - so are we speeding up our vaccination programme in response?
Will many of the UK’s coastal towns, not to mention central London, be underwater in the next few years?
Do the country’s poorest households really pay more than half their income in tax?
What are the top five places with the best vaccination rates in the world? The answers may surprise you.
We speak to Tom Chivers, a science journalist who has written a book called “How to Read numbers” with his cousin the economist David Chivers.
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