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18 January 2011

Bursting the Express house price bubble

The front page of this morning's Express reports that we will soon see a house price surge. However when Full Fact looked closer at the sources for the story, we soon saw the picture was far less rosy. Read

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21 December 2010

Full Fact's best of 2010

As MPs head back to their constituencies for Christmas, we take a quick look at some of the progress made in promoting accurate political debate in our inaugural year. Read

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20 December 2010

An historically small budget deficit?

Having been elected General Secretary of the UK's second largest trade union last month, Len McCluskey has wasted no time in creating a stir by this morning calling for strikes and demonstrations to combat Coalition cuts. But do the economics back up his claims over the budget deficit? Read

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20 December 2010

Welcome move towards more transparent data from DWP

After last week's agreement by two newspapers to amend erroneous stories we had been chasing them about for months, Full Fact is also pleased to report success in another ongoing … Read

Analysis
15 December 2010

OECD warns against education trends made by DfE and media

The UK's fall in international school league tables was widely noted in the press last week, however the trend was more severe in certain sources than elsewhere. Full Fact found that this owed much to a flawed take on the figures. Read

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14 December 2010

The Big Question: A Full Fact Guide to the Economy

As an eventful year in politics draws to a close, there will be many talking points for Fleet Street's finest to pick over as we approach the festive period. However … Read

Analysis
10 December 2010

Labour's "record" funding for students

As the debate raged over rising tution fees, Labour Shadow Business Minister John Denham contrasted the Coalition cuts to university funding with "record" levels under Labour. When Full Fact examined the figures we found it wasn't quite as simple as that. Read

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29 November 2010

What does benefit fraud cost the average household?

The News of the World reports that benefits cheats swindled each household out of £2,300 over the past ten years, conflating fraud and error—which, of course, cuts both ways. Read

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