Tuesday, August 19, 2014. The pay gap that might not be there. Need to prove an argument? Chuck in some statistics. Any old ones will do. Sometimes its hard to tell if a journalist is ignorant of statistics or is being deliberately misleading. Like most of us, they seldom question statistics that seem to prove what they already think they know.

Just a few days after returning to the UK having lived for a decade in the Altai Republic, Siberia, I found myself in Norwich staying with a friend. The morning after my arrival, my friend suggested we walk into the city centre together so that I would know my way around.