I like statistics as a way to prove things. They can show that half the people in the world are below average intelligence, that everyone in the UK is on a decent living wage and that I have 2.4 children.

I particularly like Mr Smiths. From now on I can prove that the holocaust figures were wrong. Only 6 million Jews killed in the history of the Germanic peoples? Let me see, say 1500 years (round about when the Saxons were invading). That's only 4000 a year. That's only 80 a week. More than that are killed on the roads in a large town! Makes the gas chambers look like nothing doesn't it. Let's ignore them as well as the Arab slave trade then...

DtG