Tomorrow's More or Less will cover social mobility, ask whether unemployed full-time students should really count as being unemployed, and find out about one of the most distinctive mathematicians in the world, Grigori Perelman. Steve Ziliak fans will have to wait...
The new series of More or Less - or as the cognoscenti now insist on calling it, > ˅ < - begins today at half past one BST on Radio 4. It's repeated on Sunday at 8pm, and as always you can subscribe to our podcast (click on the podcast icon at the top right of...
I’ve recently – and belatedly – come to the podcasting thing and wanted to put together my favourite economics podcasts as a resource for others. NPR’s Planet Money is quite simply the best economics podcast out there. Great production values, very creative, serious...
Today's More or Less looks at "welfare scroungers" - what's the evidence that people go on benefits as a "lifestyle choice"? How many? What happens when the government tightens up the rules? Also, our age- and sex-adjusted half-marathon race between 28 year old Lucy...
Today's More or Less asks who is more underpaid and hard-done-by, public sector workers or private sector workers? We ask whether our trousers are lying to us with "vanity sizing", how many Catholics really go to mass, and in preparation for the Great North Run, how...
Today's More or Less line-up: more about cycling safety; how is your life-expectancy really calculated; this prize for bad science writing; and can this man really use physics to tell us something we don't know about counterinsurgency? 1.30 BST on Radio 4; repeated...
Here's the hedgehog. Here's the book. Thanks to NPR and Planet Money for inviting me on!
A brand new series of More or Less has now started. We’re now on the air (Radio 4) at Fridays at 1.30pm GMT and Sundays at 8pm GMT. You can also listen online, subscribe to a podcast, and read more at the More or Less website here.
In today's programme (4.30pm GMT on BBC Radio 4, and podcast thereafter) we'll be looking at silly "scientific" results commissioned by public relations companies, at the row over immigration statistics, and an international dispute over how heavy a kilogram should...