Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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 we read the statistics that are reported each day?
The great statistician Sir David Cox has died; we remember his life and his contribution to the science of counting.
And does comparing the number of food banks to the number of McDonaldβs restaurants in the UK tell us anything about food poverty?
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