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The truth about the black pay gap
Black graduates earn a quarter less than their white peers, new figures suggest. Rampant racism – or something more complex?
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Has Google got a good deal from the taxman?
Make mine a Double Irish… multinationals like Google have been accused of aggressive tax planning. Has Britain’s HMRC really put a stop to it?
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How many more Kremlin critics have died suspiciously?
On 1 November 2006 Alexander Litvinenko, an former officer with Russia’s FSB intelligence agency now living in London, collapsed after drinking tea with an ex-colleague, Andrei Lugovoi. Litvinenko died three weeks later from what doctors eventually diagnosed as poisoning. He had drunk tea spiked with a lethal dose of Polonium-210, a highly radioactive isotope. Today,…
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Will Muslim women be deported if they don’t learn English?
Muslim women could be deported if they fail a new English test – or so the headline-writers would have us believe. What are the facts?
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How dangerous is North Korea?
North Korea’s leaders say the communist country has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. Should we believe them? Should we panic?
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Who were the victims of the ‘Islamic State’ in 2015?
The attacks in France dominated the headlines, while the media were accused of ignoring other victims of the so-called Islamic State’s global campaign of terror.
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Donald Trump’s most outrageous claims
Donald Trump may be the most FactChecked presidential candidate in US history. These are his five biggest howlers.
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Is Saudi Arabia more extreme than ‘Islamic State’?
Britain bombs IS but considers Saudi Arabia a close ally, despite widespread criticism of the Gulf kingdom’s human rights record. Is it fair to compare the two?
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Has George Osborne been generous to the NHS?
George Osborne says he is spending an “unprecedented” amount on the NHS. So why do critics insist there is a historic squeeze on budgets?
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How many British Muslims support IS?
The Sun has been widely criticised for claiming that a fifth of British Muslims sympathies with jihadis. What’s the truth of the matter?
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FactCheck Q&A: Britain’s real military strength
The government is putting a positive spin on today’s big announcement on defence spending. How strong will the armed forces really be in 2020?
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Is the Islamic State group on the back foot in Syria and Iraq?
The so-called Islamic State has shown itself capable of striking civilian targets in western Europe. But is the terror group on the back foot in its heartlands of Iraq and Syria?
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Is David Cameron’s Oxfordshire really getting a raw deal?
The Prime Minister made the unusual step of intervening when he heard that his local council in Oxfordshire are planning a string of cuts – but is it really the leafy green belt feeling the brunt of cuts?
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Do 43 per cent of EU migrants claim benefits?
The Prime Minister said “we now know that, at any one time, around 40 percent of all recent European Economic Area migrants are supported by the UK benefits system”.
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How does IS fund its reign of terror?
The so-called Islamic State group (IS) wants to expand its self-proclaimed Caliphate from Syria and Iraq to other parts of the Middle East, North Africa and even Europe. How will this be funded?