678 Episodes

  1. Are one in six children living through war?

    Published: 19/07/2025
  2. Why Manchester United can afford to play badly

    Published: 12/07/2025
  3. Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?

    Published: 09/07/2025
  4. The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam

    Published: 05/07/2025
  5. Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?

    Published: 02/07/2025
  6. Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?

    Published: 28/06/2025
  7. Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?

    Published: 25/06/2025
  8. How to spot a suspicious statistic

    Published: 21/06/2025
  9. Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?

    Published: 18/06/2025
  10. Could you be hit by a falling satellite?

    Published: 14/06/2025
  11. How do you make something 10-times more lethal?

    Published: 11/06/2025
  12. Is the world’s population being miscounted?

    Published: 07/06/2025
  13. Does the average American have fewer than three friends?

    Published: 04/06/2025
  14. Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims

    Published: 31/05/2025
  15. Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

    Published: 24/05/2025
  16. How dead is the internet?

    Published: 17/05/2025
  17. Warren Buffett’s brilliant bets

    Published: 10/05/2025
  18. Bonus episode: The Autism Curve

    Published: 05/05/2025
  19. Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check

    Published: 03/05/2025
  20. Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?

    Published: 29/04/2025

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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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