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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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What’s going on with the dodgy bar charts that political parties put on constituency campaign leaflets?
What’s the truth about tax promises?
Are 100,000 oil workers going to lose their jobs in Scotland?
Will class sizes increase in state schools if private schools increase their fees?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford Reporter: Kate Lamble Producers: Nathan Gower, Beth Ashmead-Latham, Debbie Richford Production coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
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0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to More or Less with me, Tim Harford, coming to you from the more or less Battle Bus. |
0:41.0 | It's got a fridge. This week what on earth are those bar charts |
0:45.9 | people keep putting in their local campaign leaflets. There is some serious |
0:49.8 | tomfoolery afoot and it will all end once more or less starts naming and |
0:54.2 | shaming. We'll look at how tax has changed over the past 14 years, sometimes in |
0:59.6 | surprising ways. Amid concerns that state schools might fill up with private school kids fleeing |
1:05.7 | VAT, we'll take a considered look at the actual arithmetic, which suggests otherwise. |
1:12.2 | And if there's time, some words of numerical wisdom |
1:15.1 | from William Shakespeare. |
1:16.5 | So onward, haste is needful in this desperate case. |
1:20.3 | Hi, I'm Kate Lamble and I'm here because of the election on July the 4th. |
1:27.0 | Have you got a few moments to hear about the political leaflets being put through front doors across the country? |
1:32.0 | Specifically, I want to tell you about the bar charts which claim only two parties are fighting for your seat. |
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