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Anyone hoping for (or perhaps dreading) more indian summers in the future may have been startled to read this weekend that global warming stopped happening 15 years ago. Mail on … Read
This piece has been updated. See bottom for details. As the only formal means of redressing most inaccurate reporting in newspapers, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) needs to be firmly … Read
Government support for those with disabilities was on the agenda for the Shadow Equalities Minister this week. But is the Government really taking more money from the disabled than it is from the banks? Read
With employment ever so slightly rising, how can the construction industry have lost 119,000 jobs? Read
According to three news outlets, lesbian, gay and bisexual people are seven times more likely to take drugs than the general population. Full Fact brings the numbers out of the closet. Read
This week we have been following with interest the mystery of the North Sea cod population. It started with the Sunday Times sounding the death knell for the cod, and … Read
"One in four young drivers are involved in a crash in their first six months on the road". That was the startling headline that greeted readers of the Daily Mirror … Read
Following his last speech to the Trades Union Congress annual conference this year, Brendan Barber claimed that almost two million of us are living with an illness thanks to our work, and that a further 20,000 die every year due to the workplace. But where are these estimates from? Read
Any claim without an obvious source should always trigger alarm bells in the discerning reader. A perfect example is a picture which recently went viral on social networking sites following … Read
Today the Sun claimed that eight out of ten families were ripped off by the six largest energy firms, but where is the evidence? Read
