Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Health Minister Matt Hancock recently told the House of Commons that: “The number of vaccinations happening in Bolton right now is phenomenal - tens of thousands every single day.” We explain why this is not the case.
The recent SNP election success has turned attention to the question of independence. We compare Scotland’s finances to the comparably sized Yorkshire and Humber region.
How do you work out 28 + 47 in your head? We speak to mathematician Katie Steckles.
A listener asked us to find out if it is true that the average age of a gamer is over 40.
Plus, we take a look at this claim from Netflix documentary Seaspiracy: “if current fishing trends continue we will see virtually empty oceans by the year 2048.”
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.6 | Hello and welcome to More or Less, the show which shines a statistical spotlight on the world around us. |
| 0:12.2 | This week, Scottish independence is back under discussion, so we search for a new way to think about the economic data. |
| 0:19.8 | We draw through claims about overfishing in the documentary Sea Spiracy. |
| 0:25.4 | 47 plus 28, it's not the answer you reach, it's the friends you make along the way. |
| 0:31.1 | And is it just me or are computer gamers getting older these days? |
| 0:36.0 | But first, the big news last Wednesday was the return of more or less, |
| 0:40.8 | despite the best efforts of Parliamentary Selects Committees to draw the spotlight away from us |
| 0:46.6 | by questioning the Prime Minister's former chief advisor, Dominic Cummings. |
| 0:50.8 | 10s of thousands of people died who didn't need to die. A lot of people found his claims shocking. |
| 0:57.0 | He said the government was too slow to lock down and didn't do enough to protect care homes. |
| 1:02.7 | Of course, if you've been listening to more or less last year, none of this would have come as a surprise. |
| 1:08.4 | Kate, Lamble and I were talking about it week after week for months. |
| 1:13.0 | Well, that and the testing targets that the Health Secretary Matt Hancock kept setting, |
| 1:18.4 | then missing, then finding a way to say hit them after all. Dominic Cummings noticed that too. |
| 1:25.1 | Hancock wanted to be able to go on TV and say, look at me in my 100k target. |
| 1:30.7 | It was criminal, disgraceful behaviour that caused serious harm. |
| 1:36.2 | I think that the Secretary of State for Health should have been fired for at least 15-20 things, |
| 1:43.4 | including lying to everybody in multiple occasions, in meeting after meeting in the government room, |
| 1:49.2 | unpublicly. Matt Hancock may think, after all that, the worst is over. |
| 1:54.8 | But I've got bad news for him. Kate Lamble's back. Hello, Kate, long time no see. |
| 2:01.1 | Bit weird to be in the same room, to be honest. It really is. |
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