Drinking water at set times does not provide certain health benefits
While it is a good idea to stay hydrated, drinking water at regimented times has no identifiable health benefits. Read
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This viral post about the costs of Brexit gets a lot of things wrong
A viral post about the “costs” of Brexit misrepresents a number of economic analyses. Read
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A brother and sister did not win the right to marry in the United States
Marriage between siblings is illegal in both the UK and US. Read
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Misleading claim about pension age continues to circulate online
Facebook posts continue to falsely claim the government is planning to raise the pension age to 75. It is a policy recommendation from the Centre for Social Justice. Read
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Poland has not refused to allow the building of mosques
A similar view has been expressed by a Polish politician but it is not government policy. Read
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This picture of a man swimming with a jaguar isn’t from the 2019 Amazon fires
The picture was probably taken in 2016 and shows a soldier swimming with one of the army’s jaguar mascots, called Jiquitaia. Read
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Sadiq Khan was a solicitor for the Nation of Islam
He represented the group back when he was a human rights lawyer. Read
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How many emergency patients are waiting over four hours for a bed?
There was more than a 7x increase in the number of emergency admissions taking more than four hours from decision to admit to admission from 2010 to 2018. Read
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We can’t be sure how many migrants registered with GPs in the last decade
There were 6.5 million new GP registrations in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017 where the person’s previous address was abroad. But we can’t be certain about these figures. Read
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The meme you’ve seen about Instagram privacy settings is not true
Several celebrities have reposted the incorrect image, which has no truth to it. Read
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