From false health claims to misleading statements on immigration, politics and conflict—our expert team delivers impartial, evidence based fact checks.
Europe
Pro-EU campaigners say that 50% of the UK's exports go to the EU, versus 8% to up-and-coming BRICS economies. It's 44% to the EU and 8% to BRICS. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
We factchecked the Question Time panel's claims about same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland, and the UK's membership of the EU. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
£10 billion is an uncertain estimate of the public cost of people who are homeless, offenders or drug misusers or any combination of the three. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
We've factchecked claims from Prime Minister's Questions on unemployment, nurse training, apprenticeships, and knife crime. Read
The David Miranda case has been hailed as a "huge win" for journalism, but doesn't automatically mean that the Terrorism Act will be changed. Read
Education
There's a debate over the way in which proposals to replace student maintenance grants with beefed-up loans have been introduced. We've taken a look. Read
Crime
Criminal trials can finish unexpectedly due to witness problems. But contrary to what's been reported, witnesses aren't the only cause of "cracked" trials. Read
Immigration
A government claim about the number of Muslim women with little or no English is backed up by Office for National Statistics analysis of the 2011 census. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
We factchecked the panel's claims on junior doctors, deaths in hospitals at weekends, what the UK pays into the EU, and housing. Read
Health
Jeremy Hunt has said that people who have a stroke at the weekend are 20% more likely to die. Some of our readers asked us to investigate. Read
