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Yesterday the Prime Minister delivered a much-anticipated speech outlining Britain's future within the European Union. Here's the second instalment of our analysis, in which we factcheck a few claims from his speech. Read
While international stories dominated the weekend front pages, the sums of money available to benefits claimants remained the hot domestic topic, and two Sunday papers added more fuel to the … Read
It's safe to say the Independent's Voices column was of a different class this week. Commentator and stand-up comedian Mark Steel used his column inches to point out that: "Labour … Read
The MP for Vauxhall Kate Hoey has suggested that the number of helicopter flights in London may have made the London skyline less safe. Can this be true? Read
After the campaign group Hacked Off this week published its draft 'Leveson Bill', the BBC reported something that might have suprised many of its readers: "As well as MPs, organisations … Read
According to some news aricles this week, South African women are deliberately drinking heavily in order to disable their unborn children, in order to claim relatively generous disability benefits. Words … Read
Today the BBC reports that the campaign group Hacked Off* has published the 'Leveson Bill' - a draft bill written up by Hacked Off's Chair Hugh Tomlinson QC. Obviously, this … Read
On Tuesday in the House of Commons, Barry Sheerman MP asked Secretary of State for Justice Chris Grayling whether the government would consider reviewing the age of criminal responsibility. But does England and Wales imprison four times as many young people as Portugal? Read
2012 was the year that: Kelvin MacKenzie berated lazy Northerners, alleging that the UK would have an economy like Ethopia's without London and the South East (actually, we'd be ranked … Read
The Mail on Sunday, Express, Sun and Telegraph report that wrong payments to prisoners has cost the Government £20 million pounds over the last four years, and could have cost the Government nearly £100 million in the last two decades. How plausible are these numbers? Read
