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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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01/06/2022

Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

We debunk a claim the government is spending £38,000 per household on the jubilee.

Is the government really spending a billion pounds on the Jubilee, as some have claimed? We investigate some of the facts and figures around this week’s commemorations. We also ask why energy bills are becoming so high in the UK when we actually have plenty of gas, and we unpack the mystery of measuring fuel poverty. Plus after the Texas school shooting we investigate the statistics around gun deaths in the US.

And finally we hear about the joys and perplexities of imperial measures with Hannah Fry and Matt Parker.

Produced in partnership with the Open University.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Charlotte McDonald
Reporters: Nathan Gower, Jon Bithrey, Josephine Casserly, Lizzy McNeill. 
Production coordinator: Brenda Brown
SM: James Beard
Editor: Richard Vadon.

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