Explainers and other analysis to deal with misunderstood topics and translate complexity into clarity.
The Daily Star and the Daily Express both reported that 80 per cent of households are currently living in "transport poverty" according to the RAC Foundation, but where do these figures come from, and are they accurate? Read
Last week several newspapers contributed to a swathe of reporting around foreign-born parents. According to some reports, one in four babies born in the UK has a parent born outside the UK. Full Fact looked into the figures. Read
The Sunday Times has published an apology to Flight Lieutenant Owen Morris on its website, and displayed a prominent link to the correction on every article on its website. The … Read
MP for Tottenham David Lammy yesterday clashed with the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, on the allocation of the Pupil Premium. Mr Lammy claimed that more deprived areas were losing out to those less deprived. Mr Gove disagreed. Who's right? Read
In the last few days several newspapers reported that almost 1,000 rioters had received custodial sentences four times longer than those awarded for similar crimes in 2010. Was this right? Read
The Sun on Sunday hit the newsstands yesterday with a promise to hold itself to high standards of trust following the controversial demise of its predecessor, the News of the … Read
Labour's Emily Thornberry claimed on Question Time last week that the salary of the head of Barclays has increased 500 times since 1979, while the salary of a teacher has increased 5 times in the same period. But where does this figure come from, and is it accurate? Read
Government Minister Ed Vaizey and UKIP Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall both lamented the loss of Sunday newspaper readers on Question Time yesterday. Were their figures accurate? Read
The Mirror has recently reported that bosses of the Big Six energy firms now earn "52 times more than the typical British worker", having doubled their annual wage between 2001 and 2010. What fuels these claims? Read
The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph both reported this morning that 'ghost' patients — patients still registered to a GP despite being either dead or no longer resident in the country — are costing the taxpayer £162 million. But where does this figure come from, and is it accurate? Read
