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Hello and welcome to more or less.

We're your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life,

and I'm Tim Harford. Today we're looking at the numbers around various Ings, shopping, shipping, polling,

specifically what has the violence at sea done to the cost of shipping?

Why did UGov feel the need to correct an analysis of their polling?

What's the equation to work out heat loss when you're wind chilling?

And are there really 32 million GP appointments a month?

In.

You write these scripts.

But first, the UK's monthly inflation figures were released last week, queuing a flurry of press releases

celebrating the success of the government's well executed plan,

or cascading their failure and planlessness,

depending on your loyalties.

One number from a press release by Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves

caught our attention.

It was picked up in articles in The Guardian, Independent, Herald,

and both the mighty BC websites,

LBC and a very own BBC.

Prices are still rising in the shops,

with the average weekly shop 110 pounds more

than it was before the last general election.

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