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News Commentary, Science, Mathematics, News

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Tim Harford and the team examine examine tuition fees, drugs testing and inflation.

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0:40.0

You can find out more about our programme on our website

0:44.0

BBC.co. UK slash radio4.

0:48.0

But before you do that, here's Tim Harford.

0:51.0

Hello and welcome to more or less speaking truth to power, armed only with a slide rule.

0:57.5

This week the US Supreme Court weighs in on the subject of statistical significance, how could we resist?

1:05.0

And we speak to a man who thinks progressive taxes are unfair.

1:09.4

And of course, there's the response to last week's item on cutbacks in Trumpton.

1:14.4

Last week's dismissal of Dibble from the Trumpton Fire Brigade

1:17.8

has provoked widespread concern and anger in Trumptonshire.

1:21.4

There's been a Twitter campaign initiated by Mr Clamp and Ms Lovelace to bring back the

1:26.7

Trumpton one and to sack Treasurer Harford whose actions have been described as being motivated

1:31.8

by narrow economic dogma.

1:34.0

Meanwhile, there's anxiety about the former fireman's state of mind.

1:38.0

He was last seen drunk and disorderly near the bandstand.

1:41.0

The great Dibble controversy refuses to go away. But first, the other side of university

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