Is the budget fair?

More or Less Friday, 25 June 2010 BBC Radio 4, 1330 BST Have your say

George Osborne said of his emergency budget: "Overall, everyone will pay something, but the people at the bottom of the income scale will pay proportionally less than the people at the top. It is a progressive budget."

True? More or Less explains why VAT may not be regressive, but the spending cuts to come will be.

Drink drive numbers

What are the numbers behind the latest drink driving review?

The North Review of drink driving legislation says
reducing the blood alcohol limit could save several hundred lives a year.

Tim asks Professor Allan Brennan - who co-authored the research on which the claim is based - how the estimate was calculated.

Beautiful information

See 'More or Less is Beautiful' by David McCandless

Last week we asked you to help create a data-set for information designer David McCandless by telling us what you were doing while listening to More or Less.

You replied in your thousands - thank you - and David has, as promised, used your responses (and some other numbers we gave him) to create a one-page representation of the programme.

See the listener data visualisation, early draft image and download a printable version here.

Potty parity

What should be the ideal male to female toilet ratio?

The US Congress has been looking at draft legislation which would require government buildings to provide enough "restrooms" to ensure women don't have to wait longer for the loo than men.

But as Professor John Banzhaf explains, providing equal access to the bathroom is a trickier mathematical and legal problem than one might think.

BBC Radio 4's More or Less is broadcast on Friday, 25 June at 1330 BST and repeated on Sunday, 27 June at 2000 BST.

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