Explainers and other analysis to deal with misunderstood topics and translate complexity into clarity.
With the Home Office's 'Equal Civil Marriage' consultation set to close next week, two newspapers today reported on the latest opinion poll to probe the views of the public: Daily … Read
Last month the Morning Star ran a story accusing Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith of lying to the UK Statistics Authority, and apparently had the emails to prove … Read
Crime
The Sun has claimed that half of all people who are found guilty of paedophilic offences are not jailed. Is this correct? Read
Following reports in the Sun that NHS Trusts are providing 'posh' cars to their employees - making the taxpayer liable - Full Fact investigates how sound the newspaper's evidence really is. Read
Immigration
The Question Time panel yesterday discussed the prospect of "hordes" of Greeks moving to Britain to take advantage of our "generous" welfare system. Is this grounded in fact? Read
Crime
Today the Sun reported that the police were solving fewer crimes, and that this was the first time this trend had taken place in a decade. But is there any real story here? Read
With the Diamond Jubilee weekend just round the corner, there has been no shortage of opinion polls commissioned by the media to guage support the monarchy, and who they think … Read
Health
Today the i newspaper published a correction to its recent front page article which overstated the number of nursing jobs that were estimated to have been cut by the Royal … Read
After members of the British Medical Association (BMA) voted to take industrial action over pay, one junior doctor claimed in the Sun that the doctors' pension scheme isn't a drain on taxpayers. Is this right? Read
Health
The British Medical Association's decision to pursue industrial action for the first time in over 40 years provoked a great deal of interest in this morning's papers. The Independent included … Read
