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Hello and welcome to more or less, the show that puts the SaaS into statistics. Before we came along, it was just plain old... I'm Tim Harford. This week,

we ask if elderly people are sharper and smarter than they've ever been. And if young people are so

hapless that three-quarters of them are bringing their parents along to job interviews with them.

Two separate stories there, and at least one of them is based on good data. In the Department

of Questions we never thought we'd have to answer, we ask whether some British

billionaires earn more in a night than the population of Bournemouth earns in a year.

And in more conventional ground, we are prompted by the Daily Mail to ask whether the UK is

now a nation of benefit scroungers.

So, first, new Green Party leader, Zach Polanski, took

to the stage in Bournemouth last week to make his big speech at the party conference.

A major theme was his desire to increase taxes on the UK's wealthiest 1%. And this is what he's said.

We need to make sure that every single person in this country knows

there will be people who go to sleep at night.

And without lifting a finger, when they wake up, they will be richer, much richer.

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