Explainers and other analysis to deal with misunderstood topics and translate complexity into clarity.
The Press Association and the Metro reported this morning that prosecutions of racially aggravated crimes accounted for more than 80 per cent of prosecuted hate crimes in the last year. But is there more to these figures than reported? Read
Yesterday the Trades Union Congress (TUC) made headlines with its claim that 'true' unemployment in the UK could be as high as 6.3 million if different measures are used. General … Read
On BBC 5 Live yesterday, Trevor Kavanagh claimed that the three investigations into the press under Operations Weeting, Elveden and Tuleta amounted to the "biggest single police operation in the history of British policing". Is it true that there have been no larger operations? Read
Recently the Online Journalism Blog raised the question: "The £10,000 question: who benefits most from a tax threshold change?", prompting much discussion on Twitter between opposing sides of the debate, … Read
Last Friday Stuart Fraser from the Corporation of London seemed to say that 500,000 jobs were being lost in the city, with 270,000 jobs having been lost in 2011. This figure was later corrected by the Corporation to 27,000. But where do the figures come from? Read
Yesterday Full Fact gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics and standards. Full Fact's Director, Will Moy, gave oral evidence alongside Martin Moore, Director of the Media Standards … Read
The Daily Mail this morning ran a headline suggesting that "workshy Britain" had more homes where no one has a job than anywhere else in Europe. Is this correct? Read
Following our factcheck on the cost of clinical negligence claims against the NHS, Full Fact were contacted about the number of instances of clinical negligence versus those which give rise … Read
Anthony Wells' UK Polling Report blog this morning spotted a contentious 'poll' cited in the Guardian's coverage of controversy surrounding the Health and Social Care Bill. In what the blog … Read
Over the weekend both Labour and the Conservatives reignited an old row over the costs of NHS reorganisation. Health Minister Simon Burns claimed the figure was as much as £1.3 billion, while Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham put it as high as £3.5 billion. Who's right? Read
