Explainers and other analysis to deal with misunderstood topics and translate complexity into clarity.
Education
Andrew Dilnot, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, has today expressed 'concern' about claims made by the Department for Education (DfE) on the UK's supposed slump in international school achievement … Read
Government support for those with disabilities was on the agenda for the Shadow Equalities Minister this week. But is the Government really taking more money from the disabled than it is from the banks? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
With discussions of wealth and class occupying the commentators as Labour's annual conference gets under way in Manchester, we look at whether millionaires really stand to benefit by £40,000 from the cut in the top rate of tax. Read
With employment ever so slightly rising, how can the construction industry have lost 119,000 jobs? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Is the growing size of the government's debt placing the restraints on Liberal Democrat ambitions that Nick Clegg claimed during this week's conference speech? We find out in the second part of our look into the 'inconvenient truths' he cited. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Nick Clegg used his speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference to encourage his party to embrace the "tough decisions" that come with government. But are the "inconvenient truths" he claims to have faced 'truths' at all? Here's the first part in our Read
Immigration
Population in England and Wales has risen by 1,000 every day, the fastest rise in 100 years. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
On this morning's Today programme Mark Reckless MP claimed that the cost of means-testing pensioner benefits would be "far, far greater than anything that would be raised". Does the evidence support his view? Read
Health
The Daily Mail reports that some doctors have been allowed to continue practising after being convicted of sex offences. And is human rights law shielding the offenders? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Liberal Democrat conference this year runs with the theme: "fairer tax in tough times." But how unfair is the current tax system? Read
