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Here's Tim Halford.

Hello and welcome to more or less, the show that does for statistics, what Sherlock does for

crimes. I'm Tim Halford. This week, the mathematics of Willy Wonka's famous competition

has global poverty just been halved overnight, the curiosities of the Eurovision voting system,

and is it really true that Boris Johnson is mayor of one of France's largest cities?

It's rubbish. It's rubbish. But first.

The country's leading politicians have been arguing over what surely the most important

issue of the week, whether take that Gary Barlow should hand back his OBE. A tribunal ruled

that he participated in a tax avoidance scheme and may have to pay substantial back taxes,

along with his manager and two other blocs from take that, whose names nobody can remember.

Howard Donald and Mark Owen. This is Charlotte.

With Donald Charlotte, you're not helping your credibility.

Well, let's get back to the point. Now, we've been wondering about tax avoidance,

and it's illegal sibling tax evasion. Do we put enough effort into catching tax dodges, both

outright frauds, and those like Gary Barlow who've attempted to find legal loop holes in the

tax walls? And, funnily enough, Evan Davis has been wondering the same thing. He is interviewing

Mark Garnier, a Conservative MP on the today programme. So we tougher on benefit recipients,

and cheats and fraud, and people who shouldn't claim but do. Are we much tougher on them than we

are on people who don't pay their fair share of tax? It's a very interesting question.

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