Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor
More or Less
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4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The UK’s Covid cases are still rising and Scotland is being hit particularly hard - so are we speeding up our vaccination programme in response?
Will many of the UK’s coastal towns, not to mention central London, be underwater in the next few years?
Do the country’s poorest households really pay more than half their income in tax?
What are the top five places with the best vaccination rates in the world? The answers may surprise you.
We speak to Tom Chivers, a science journalist who has written a book called “How to Read numbers” with his cousin the economist David Chivers.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.5 | Hello and welcome to More or Less, our weekly attempt to make the world add up for you. |
| 0:11.4 | This week do the country's poorest households really pay more than half their income in |
| 0:16.6 | tax. |
| 0:17.6 | A new book about how to make sense of numbers in the news? |
| 0:21.4 | Will many of the UK's coastal towns, not to mention central London, be underwater in |
| 0:26.9 | the next few years, and Big Tech is trying to censor more or less. |
| 0:32.4 | Never fear we will fight back. |
| 0:34.9 | But first, as this is the last programme in the series, we thought we'd start by taking |
| 0:40.1 | a final look at the Covid pandemic. |
| 0:43.0 | Who knows, when we're back in August, it might all be over. |
| 0:47.0 | Or maybe not. |
| 0:51.4 | Let's start with where we left things last week. |
| 0:54.2 | Previously, on More or Less. |
| 0:56.9 | After months of falling case numbers, we're now seeing rising Covid cases again. |
| 1:01.9 | Recently, confirmed cases have been rising at over 30 per cent per week, doubling every |
| 1:07.9 | 17 days. |
| 1:08.9 | At the low point this year, there were under 2000 new cases a day. |
| 1:14.4 | We're now seeing around 10,000 cases a day. |
| 1:19.0 | Unfortunately, since then, the situation has got worse. By the start of this week, cases |
| 1:24.6 | had jumped from 10,000 a day to about 17,000, and are now rising at a rate that suggests |
| 1:31.7 | a doubling every 10 or 11 days. |
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