Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Is the government really spending a billion pounds on the Jubilee, as some have claimed? We investigate some of the facts and figures around this week’s commemorations. We also ask why energy bills are becoming so high in the UK when we actually have plenty of gas, and we unpack the mystery of measuring fuel poverty. Plus after the Texas school shooting we investigate the statistics around gun deaths in the US. And finally we hear about the joys and perplexities of imperial measures with Hannah Fry and Matt Parker.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.3	Hello and welcome to More or Less, a veritable numerical jubilee.
0:10.3	This week we'll be contemplating some weighty subjects.
0:13.7	Why are energy bills so high if the UK has plenty of gas?
0:18.2	How many families are in fuel poverty?
0:20.2	And of course, we'll look at the statistics on gun deaths in the US.
0:24.9	And we will also tackle a literally weighty subject as we survey the joys of Imperial
0:29.7	measures.
0:30.7	But first, you may be aware of the two-day bank holiday this week in honour of her majesty
0:42.0	the Queen's platinum jubilee, 70 years in the top job.
0:46.6	Many people are delighted, bunting scones, street parties with tressal tables, jacket potatoes,
0:53.0	that complicated trifoli thing, but not everyone is delighted of course.
0:57.8	But it's tell us more is our own royal correspondent Charlotte McDonald, a woman so patriotic she
1:03.5	is literally covered in red, white and blue bunting.
1:06.2	Hello Charlotte.
1:07.2	Hello Tim.
1:08.2	Who could have a problem with a jubilee?
1:09.6	Well, some people on Twitter.
1:11.4	Oh yes, of course there are people on Twitter who can have a problem with anything.
1:14.6	So what's the complaint?
1:15.6	The complaint is that money is being wasted.
1:18.2	Here's an example tweet.
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