Joël Reland

Fact checker (former)

Joël joined Full Fact in 2017 as an intern. He researched and wrote fact checks. He previously worked for Policy in Practice, analysing the impact of the transition to Universal Credit on local authorities, and for the polling and research consultancy Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. He has a BA in History from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in International Political Theory from the University of Edinburgh.
3 April 2018

Health

NHS pay: what’s the deal?

By Joël Reland • 8 mins

A proposed deal will see pay rise for some NHS staff by between 4.5% and 29% over three years, including both salary rises and staff pay progression. The rise will be 6.5% for roughly half of staff. Read

Fact checks
27 March 2018

Europe

Lorries at Dover

By Joël Reland • 3 mins

The Port of Dover has previously said that between 1% and 3% of lorries arriving at Dover are not from the EU, but we haven’t been able to confirm the source of the figure. Read

Fact checks
23 March 2018

Health

Young trans people in Britain

By Joël Reland • 2 mins

A survey raised concerns about high numbers of young trans people attempting to take their own lives. We don’t know how representative the findings are of young trans people in Britain as a whole. Read

Fact checks
21 February 2018

Health

How much meat do we eat?

By Joël Reland • 4 mins

A range of surveys suggest 2-3% of the UK is vegetarian, and household consumption of meat has fallen in recent years. Read

Fact checks