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BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts. Hello and welcome to more or less, your weekly guide to the numbers in politics, in religion and in everyday life.

And I'm Tim Harford. This week is churchgoing making a comeback in the UK. How many people have the government sent home because they have no legal right to be here?

Is it really true that every day

a thousand people begin claiming

personal independence payments, or PIP?

Can a spiffy new telescope really see golf balls on the moon?

And have you ever died in a fall?

I know I have.

Tim? But first. Is churchgoing making a comeback in the UK? That seems to be the message from a U-Gov survey for the Bible Society,

a non-profit that works to distribute the Bible, which was published in a report called The Quiet Revival in April. It's been much discussed since.

The survey apparently showed that churchgoing had dramatically increased between 2018, a previous

survey, and 2024. From 8% of people going each week then to 12% now. Or as one Christian publication

put it, church attendance soars 50% as faith surges among British youth.

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