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It's been claimed the government's proposal for a 5p charge on plastic bags will reduce their use by 76%, and that if people switch to paper or reusable bags it could be bad for the environment or lead to more food poisoning cases. So what's the evidence? Read
The LSE has said of statistics: "if you can quantify the uncertainty … you have gone a long way towards understanding what is going on." Government statisticians have been thinking about how to put that into practice. Read
The Times today carried an article on American military spending in Europe, but it was the accompanying graph showing the change in the number of US forces based in Europe … Read
Analysis by the Institute for Government provides some more context to claims that Parliament has been passing fewer laws. Read
Reports that 20,000 complaints had been received have been challenged by one of the universities under the microscope. Read
A 5p charge on disposable bags was one of the measures widely expected in the Queen's speech at today's opening of Parliament. Do we use 8 billion of them a year, as the Daily Mail said? Read
The Mail reported that the former PM claimed "mass immigration made no difference to the job prospects of unemployed Britons." This isn't what he said. Read
Last week we looked into the news that American books such as To Kill a Mockingbird had been dropped from OCR's draft English Literature GCSE syllabus. New rules mean that … Read
The Independent today reported on a poll on the subject of parental leave. But did its headline reflect the results? Read
It's been reported the Church of England opposes the HS2 railway line - but the situation is a bit more complicated. Read
