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Last Friday the Tabloid Watch blog monitored a dispute between the Daily Mail and the BBC. The Mail had published an article on Wednesday criticising the BBC, writing that: "Half … Read
The Daily Mail reported today that lending to businesses has fallen every quarter for the last three years, arguing that, despite the promises of Project Merlin, banks have failed to lend to small businesses. Is this correct? Read
Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith was quoted in the Times this morning talking on the subject of banks that are 'too big to fail'. One of his most interesting comments was that Tesco accounted for £1 out of every £7 spent in the UK retail market. How did he work this out? Read
Trevor Kavanagh of The Sun has been arguing that the police investigations of press misbehaviour are "wildly disproportionate." In our factcheck we showed that he was wrong to call the … Read
The Prime Minister will outline new measures to combat alcohol abuse in England. He wants to reduce the £2.7 billion the NHS spends annually tackling the problem. But is this figure accurate? Read
The Press Association and the Metro reported this morning that prosecutions of racially aggravated crimes accounted for more than 80 per cent of prosecuted hate crimes in the last year. But is there more to these figures than reported? Read
Yesterday the Trades Union Congress (TUC) made headlines with its claim that 'true' unemployment in the UK could be as high as 6.3 million if different measures are used. General … Read
On BBC 5 Live yesterday, Trevor Kavanagh claimed that the three investigations into the press under Operations Weeting, Elveden and Tuleta amounted to the "biggest single police operation in the history of British policing". Is it true that there have been no larger operations? Read
Recently the Online Journalism Blog raised the question: "The £10,000 question: who benefits most from a tax threshold change?", prompting much discussion on Twitter between opposing sides of the debate, … Read
Last Friday Stuart Fraser from the Corporation of London seemed to say that 500,000 jobs were being lost in the city, with 270,000 jobs having been lost in 2011. This figure was later corrected by the Corporation to 27,000. But where do the figures come from? Read
