Explainers and other analysis to deal with misunderstood topics and translate complexity into clarity.
As the Heathrow third runway debate heats up this week, Full Fact observed seemingly contradictory comments in the Guardian and Times which were in need of some further investigation. Must one paper be wrong? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Quoting the Department of Communities and Local Government, several newspapers have reported on the 10-figure sum which can be attributed to fraud and error in the Council Tax benefit system. Read
Health
Hacking into the Government's plans to cut back on disability allowance, the Guardian has recently claimed the changes will see 90,000 Motability vehicles or scooters taken away from people who currently use them. Read
Immigration
A piece in the Telegraph this morning bemoaned the state of the British job market; pointing out that since the election foreign-born workers have found work at a rate of 500 people per day; twice that of the British. Can this be true? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The most harmful inaccuracies are often those that get uncritically repeated time and time again. So quite naturally a few eyebrows have been raised over a much-repeated figure used by … Read
The green belt has come under scrutiny recently with some accusing it of being a barrier to much needed housing construction and economic growth. Yesterday, the Guardian made a number of claims on the subject but can Full Fact give them the green light? Read
After months of cautious manoeuvring from the Government, press reports last week suggested Downing Street may now accept the recommendation of the Dilnot Commission on the funding of social care, … Read
The decision to increase fuel duty by over three pence in January has prompted an angry response from campaign groups and the media who point out that the UK already has the highest rate in the EU. Is this true and where do the figures come from? Read
Apple's market value at the close of yesterday triggered a landslide of sensationalist headlines hailing the tech super-corp as the most valuable company of all time. But is it? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
After the Evening Standard leaked content of 'Britain Unchained', the magnum opus of five Tory MPs, there has been a media defence of the British labour force. But what do the statistics say? Read
