Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you’re meant to get wrong.

• 28 mins

How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.

• 28 mins

Should the government target persnuffle?

Plus, childhood obesity, birds hitting windows and Sir David Spiegelhalter’s origin story.

• 28 mins

When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

Plus: the taxes of 60 very rich people, water bill spreadsheets, and is 0 a small number?

• 28 mins

Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits.

• 28 mins

Are older drivers more dangerous?

Plus, winter fuel deaths, prison sentence maths and leaves on railway tracks.

• 28 mins

Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths

The numbers behind Ukraine’s rare earth worth and the UK’s defence spending ambitions.

• 28 mins

DOGE, apples and irregular migrants

Fact-checking government efficiency claims in the US.

• 28 mins

How did lockdown impact children?

Five years on, Tim Harford looks at the data on the effect of lockdown.

• 42 mins

Why are more people claiming disability benefits?

Plus, UK v Russia on free speech and the collapse of the Labour Force Survey.

• 28 mins

Could a 2% wealth tax raise £24bn?

Plus, did trillions disappear from UK pensions? Why does the UK have a lot of old housing?

• 28 mins

Is one in four people in the UK disabled?

Plus, what has Canada done to Donald Trump? Is Rachel Reeves chasing the model?

• 28 mins

The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula

Also, counting bobbies, freezing tax and electrocuting redheads

• 28 mins