Abortion, human rights, and devolution
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Will Moy
Chief Executive (former)
Will gave the Royal Statistical Society’s Beveridge Lecture Other Truths Are Available in 2018, co-authored The State of Automated Factchecking with Mevan Babakar in 2016, and regularly appears in the media and at events to discuss Full Fact’s work. Will has served on advisory groups for the ESRC, Ofcom, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Treasury, and regularly gives evidence to select committees and other inquiries. He has advised the ONS on a communications review and he was a Marketing Academy Scholar in 2018. He volunteers as a trainer on the NCVO’s Certificate in Campaigning for charities. Before Full Fact, Will worked in the House of Lords for non-party affiliated peer Lord Low of Dalston and for the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety. He previously worked briefly in tech.
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Economy, Business & Finance
Is youth unemployment down 40%?
The number of unemployed 16-24 year olds has fallen by 43% between 2010 and 2018. Read
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America: seen as the number one threat to world peace, says one survey
A 2013 poll by the WIN/Gallup International network found 24% of respondents from around the world chose the USA as the country they thought posed the greatest threat to world peace. Read
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Education
Student ‘debts’ aren’t really debts
Politicians were accused of misrepresenting students’ finance options - so how does it work? Read
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Health
What’s driving our increasing population and household numbers?
Immigration has been the largest driver of the increasing population, according to the Office for National Statistics. Life expectancy has also been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Read
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Immigration
How immigration law changed for Commonwealth citizens
Theresa May, Diane Abbott and the Immigration Act 2014 Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
People who look after people tend to be women on low pay
More women work in occupations that tend to offer lower salaries such as administration and caring. Read
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Health
Fiddled A&E statistics?
Unpublished guidance to NHS Trusts has raised questions about whether A&E statistics can be trusted. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Did badly-regulated bankers cause the recession?
Lots of things went wrong, but experts agree that regulation was one of them. Read
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