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In Broken Britain, even the statistics don’t work

From the bone-jarring potholes to the human excrement regularly released into British rivers, the country’s creaking infrastructure is one of the most visceral manifestations of the past 15 years of stagnation. To these examples of the shabby neglect of the essential underpinnings of modern life, let me add another: our statistica

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Tim Harford · In Broken Britain, even the statistics don’t workFrom the bone-jarring potholes to the human excrement regularly released into British rivers, the country’s creaking infrastructure is one of the most visceral manifestations of the past 15 years o…

@TimHarford@econtwitter.net Now, what would happen to my favourite podcast if the statistics everyone spouted were totally accurate, as opposed to More or Less totally inaccurate?