Economy, Business & Finance
The Conservatives have introduced a two-child cap on Child Tax Credit, which includes an exception for conception during non-consensual sex or sex in an abusive relationship. Read
Health
The number of people waiting four hours in all types of A&E in England in 2015/16 is higher than in 2010/11. More people are going to A&E but the percentage of people seen within four hours has also f Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Pensioners who receive the full basic state pension in 2017/18 are getting £1,250 more in cash per year than in 2010/11. However, in real terms the increase is only about £558.82 extra Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Increases to the personal allowance have meant about 4 million fewer people had to pay income tax in 2015/16 than did in 2010/11. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The number of people unemployed in the UK was higher at the end of the last Labour government than at the start Read
Europe
The 2015 Conservative manifesto did commit the party to the single market. The government’s EU referendum leaflet didn’t say explicitly that leaving the EU would mean leaving the single market. Read
Crime
It’s the job of one particular police unit to “instigate” the removal of extremist material from the Internet where it breaches internet companies’ terms of service, or the law. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
A comprehensive forecast hasn’t been produced. The Brexit Secretary says the government has to decide its plan for mitigation before such a forecast can be produced. Read
Education
In last week’s BBC Question Time Fraser Nelson claimed that there was a huge gap between the rich and the poor in Scottish education. We looked into it. Read
Last year Oxford Dictionaries named ‘post-truth’ as 2016’s word of the year. Here are three ways to tackle it. Read
