Today’s Guardian contains a new shock story about the book trade. A survey of 1,324 publishing industry professionals taken at the Frankfurt Book Fair produced the amazing prediction that the high street bookstore may have vanished in 50 years time. Wow. And just how many of the respondents were saying this? Was it as many as 90%? Of course not. Perhaps two thirds? Well, no. More than half? Sorry, try again. The overwhelming statistical support for this idea came from “Almost a quarter” of those who took the survey.

Cue shock story about declining standards in maths teaching in British schools.