The writing papers of more than 500, 000 pupils were marked, and only 0.6% of them were awarded a different level after review - again the same proportion as last year.
Though the proportion of city-dwellers has soared, they are different from the atomised individualists of Europe or North America: the extended family and traditional social networks have survived even in teeming Tehran.
Can the votes of a tiny proportion of the electorate in Little Sodbury or Gwent North by North West voting for police commissioners using a different voting system and with so many independents winning tell us anything at all?