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With the Diamond Jubilee weekend just round the corner, there has been no shortage of opinion polls commissioned by the media to guage support the monarchy, and who they think … Read
After members of the British Medical Association (BMA) voted to take industrial action over pay, one junior doctor claimed in the Sun that the doctors' pension scheme isn't a drain on taxpayers. Is this right? Read
Earlier this month the Times and the i newspapers both incorrectly reported the number of nurses supposedly at risk of being cut from the NHS. The i's coverage was the … Read
Freshly-elected Mayor of London Boris Johnson last week claimed the majority of cyclists are implicated in their own accidents - specifically those leading to serious injury or death. Is there any basis for his claims? Read
Scottish Health Minister Nicola Sturgeon has made the claim that increasing alcohol affordability has seen increasing admissions to hospital related to alcohol use. Is she correct? Read
During a Channel 4 News panel segment, it was claimed that ten per cent of the world's crops are now genetically modified. Is this true, and can this figure be reliably checked? Read
Last week former Green mayoral candidate Jenny Jones pressed the Mayor during Mayor's Questions to sign up to trustworthy statistics for London:"Following calls from Full Fact during the election campaign, … Read
In the lead up to the Diamond Jubilee royal sentiment is certainly high. But how much is the Royal Family worth? Read
Conservative MP Harriet Baldwin claimed that one in four adults was in a workless household, and that the number of workless households had doubled under the previous Labour government. Was she right to say this? Read
On Tuesday, the grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) added another judgment to the prisoner voting saga, promting anger from many of the morning's papers. Anyone … Read
