Sports and Crime Briefing

Sports and Crime Briefing

The Maths Don't Work

I'll skip the tired preaching about values and ideals. If you think the Sports and Briefing is useful to you, help us out!

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Chris Dalby
Dec 18, 2025
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The maths don’t work yet. So if you’ve read the newsletter regularly, or even just once or twice, and you found it useful, please help keep it going. For the price of a cup of coffee a month, you get 110+ articles a year.

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