Hello this is Tim and this is the first in the new Radio 4 series of More or Less, first broadcast

on Friday the 4th of November.

Hello and welcome to More or Less.

The Buddhists have mindfulness, for Danes have hoogie, we have numbers, and we love them. It's good to be back. This week,

our British parliamentary seats being gerrymandered?

More importantly, isn't it gerrymandered?

Was a Netflix drama about Colombian drug cartels factually inaccurate?

And are both rare species and male parliamentarians disappearing at an alarming rate?

But first, in less than a week, America will vote on its next leader. I will present the facts plainly and honestly.

And this man, Donald Trump, hopes to be elected president.

We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

Gosh, well. with the truth and nothing else.

Gosh, well I'm all in favor of the truth and nothing else, but is Mr. Trump?

His campaign has had political fact checkers working overtime. He's claimed that parts of London and

Paris are so radicalised that police are afraid for their own lives and that

Barack Obama is the founder of ISIS. but here it more or less it's his use of

numbers that interests us. Like this claim he made on Sunday about presidential

rival Hillary Clinton. She wants to let people just pour in.

You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it.

Think of it.

That's what could happen.

You triple the size of our country in one

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