Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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Yes, and over the last 10 years, and I'm sorry to be macabre here, 11 children have died in the UK from malnutrition as an underlying cause.
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Even then, the Office for National Statistics think that many of those children have been misclassified in the records.
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That does suggest that there are not a million starving kids in Britain.
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There doesn't seem to be any good government research.
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The National Family and Children's Survey used to ask families about food.
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In 2005, they asked parents if they could afford good quality brand name foods most days.
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And about 10% of them said they couldn't, which meant that it affected about 1.3 million children.
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There are lots of reports on broader subjects such as child poverty.
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For instance, Save the Children recently published a report that estimates there are 1.6 million children in severe poverty.
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That's characterised by not affording things like school trips, hobbies, while parents don't have enough money for things like household contents insurance, repairing a broken refrigerator or washing machine, amongst other things.
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Might be a good idea.
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Palau has the highest rate of cannabis use on earth, with nearly a quarter of adults from 15 to 64 lighting up.
This comes after a WHO report in 2011 showing that Palauans drink more beer than any other nationality too.
Is Palau really a paradise for beer-swilling stoners or is there something about the tiny Pacific island that is making statisticians look like they've been smoking funny cigarettes?
Charlotte MacDonald.
Well, both cannabis and alcohol figures Dave mentions come from highly respectable sources.
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Let's take the beer statistic first.
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As Dave said, a recent World Health Organization report did indeed put Palau at the top of the global per capita chart of beer-drinking nations.
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The thing is, that's not quite the whole story.
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The WHO compared data from 2005, and for some reason, Palauans appear to have gone on a massive drinking spree that year.
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