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Conservatives are cutting school funding in real terms
How to make sense of this? Should you be worried if you have school-age children?
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Tory election expenses defence doesn’t stand up
Theresa May’s statement on the Conservative election expenses scandal was directly contradicted by the Electoral Commission’s version of events.
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Are most asylum seekers really economic migrants?
Mr Farage is wrong to suggest that most people who claim to be refugees are really found to be economic migrants.
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FactCheck Q&A: what we have learnt from Copeland and Stoke by-elections
Jeremy Corbyn had just under an hour to savour the victory as the Copeland by-election result hit home in the early hours, handing a resounding victory to the Conservatives.
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FactCheck Q&A: why isn’t immigration falling more quickly?
Immigration has become one of the most contentious issues of our age. Despite pledges by successive incoming governments to reduce numbers of foreign nationals coming into Britain in recent years, no government has achieved anywhere near the figures they had promised. So why isn’t immigration falling more quickly?
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Big differences between Trump and Obama on refugees
It’s true that in 2011, the processing of Iraqi refugees entering the US slowed down after tighter vetting was introduced. But it wasn’t an outright ban.
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FactCheck Q&A: Trump’s travel ban
The very latest advice from the UK Foreign Office is that people with British passports will not be affected.
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No evidence Isis leader killed or captured
There is actually no evidence that any harm has come to Baghdadi, and the US military is still working on the assumption that he is at large.
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The promises Trump broke on his first day
America’s new president made a lot of promises on the campaign trail about what he would do on his very first day in office.
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FactCheck Q&A: What does Theresa May’s Brexit statement mean for the UK?
The headline is that we will be pulling out of the EU’s Single Market and will not remain a full member of the Customs Union either.
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Eva Bartlett’s claims about Syrian children
Perhaps the simpler explanation is the more likely one: children really are being orphaned in Syria, or left wounded and distressed, and those children are now being wrongly accused of involvement in an elaborate conspiracy.
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Britain’s “50bn exit bill” from the EU
Another week, another warning that UK taxpayers could be left paying into the EU for years after Brexit.
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Is Hammond right on the Conservatives’ record?
Philip Hammond defended six years of Conservative austerity at his first Autumn Statement. Was he right?
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Factcheck Q&A: dental tests for child migrants
Should we test the teeth of asylum seekers who claim to be children? How many “child” refugees are lying about their age?
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Are Black Lives Matter UK right about racism and climate change?
Black Lives Matter UK have moved on to protesting about climate change. Is it really a race issue?