Economy, Business & Finance
Rail fares: up 25% in six years?
Have rail fares gone up by a quarter since 2010, as the Labour Party claims? Read
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Laura O’Brien
Health
Social care funding: how did the sector react to the latest plans?
David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn swapped quotes from health and social care leaders during Prime Minister's Questions. Read
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Education
Claim that Islamic State hack brought down university internet services appears unfounded
A headline in the Express claimed that an Islamic State hack disrupted university internet services, but the evidence it gave for this is not convincing. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Flood defences: what's happening to funding?
Capital spending is set to be £1.9 billion this parliament, up from previous parliaments. But capital spending isn't the whole story. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Air strikes: how many teachers and nurses could we pay for instead?
Would air strikes in Syria cost £508,000 each, enough to pay for about 20 teachers or 19 nurses? Read
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Health
Are disadvantaged children twice as likely to be obese?
Childhood obesity affects 25% of year 6 pupils attending schools in the most deprived tenth of areas, and 13% at the least deprived tenth. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Tampons, Jaffa Cakes, and razors: we pay no VAT on some of these items
MPs have called for an end to the "tampon tax", arguing they're essential items and so VAT shouldn't be paid on them. Are razors and Jaffa Cakes exempt too? Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Did UK steel production halve under Labour?
Yes, if you compare 1997 to 2010, when the economy was in a slump. Production has been, broadly, in decline for decades. Read
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Health
Processed meat isn't as big a cause of cancer as smoking
Did an international health watchdog find that processed meat is as likely to cause cancer as smoking? No. Read
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Health
No evidence 11,000 NHS weekend deaths are caused by understaffing
The Health Secretary has claimed that 11,000 weekend deaths are caused by understaffed hospitals, but the research he cites doesn't show this. Read
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