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Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?
Europe holds trillions of dollars of US shares and bonds - but can they use them?

Can you get £71,000 on benefits?
Tim Harford investigates benefits, church attacks, saunas and marathon running

Is Greenland as big as Africa?
Tim Harford asks if Greenland is really as vast as most maps seem to suggest

How close is Greenland to the United States?
Tim Harford investigates Greenland maps, climate costs, house prices and Traitors maths

No, a study has not shown that the covid jab causes cancer
Why a study from South Korea does not show that vaccines cause cancer

Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT?
Tim Harford investigates closing schools, X users, Covid deaths and churchgoers

Does Venezuela really have the biggest oil reserves in the world?
We investigate if there are actually 300 billion barrels of oil in Venezuela's reserves

The Stats of the Nation: Immigration, benefits and inequality
Tim Harford explores the stats on some of the UK’s most potent political debates

The Stats of the Nation: Older people, education, prisons and the weather
Tim Harford explores the stats on pensioners, exams, justice and climate change

The Stats of the Nation: Sex, drugs and empty homes
Tim Harford explores the numbers that help explain fertility, pharmaceuticals and crime