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Cutting through the confusion on disabled benefits
People who claim now should not be worse off in the short term. That is an important point that charities have sometimes been guilty of failing to spell out.
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FactCheck Q&A: May, McKinnon and extradition – still unfair?
The latest figures from the Home Office are that, between January 2004 and October 2012, Britain extradited 92 people from the UK to the US and only 43 were extradited from America to Britain.
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What does British Gas spend your money on?
And of course, it isn’t all doom and gloom for Centrica when wholesale prices go up, because the giant doesn’t just buy gas and electricity at source. It produces it and sells it wholesale too.
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PM’s business claim goes from boom to bust
New businesses boomed faster than ever before last year, says David Cameron. Great news if true – so where’s the evidence?
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Has Cameron hit the million mark?
The number of temps and part-timers who said they had been forced to take work of that nature after failing to find permanent or full-time work have all risen significantly.
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Are children less safe now?
Strangers who abduct children are difficult to spot in a crowd and hard to profile. Most of the tabloid cliches about “monsters” are untrue.
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Boris on crime, poverty and chocolate Hobnobs
We note that Boris only referred to private companies in his speech, not local authorities. That may be because all the London councils that have achieved accreditation or have applied for it are run by Labour.
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Why Danny Alexander won’t cure our tax haven habit
Why can’t we call the corporate bluff and exclude all companies who have a presence in a tax haven from public contracts?
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Has Labour’s attack on mortgage scheme hit home?
That’s not “the first six months”, it’s about three-and-a-half months. This is significant, because buying a house takes time.
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FactCheck Q&A: Inside Vince Cable’s bank job
The bottom line is that Bank of England figures for growth rates in lending to small firms have been in a downward spiral since 2009 and are showing no signs of improvement.
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The Ukip manifesto – Farage or farrago?
Ukip’s popularity with voters has nudged 10 per cent this year, making the party more popular than the Liberal Democrats at times.
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Armed police numbers
David Cameron has claimed there are more armed police officers on the nation’s streets. But is that true? FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck Q&A: Badger shame for Defra?
The effect was cancelled out initially by “perturbation” – a scientific way of saying that if you try to shoot badgers in one field, they don’t like it, and move to the next one.
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Will Europe scupper gay marriage plans?
Marriage in English law is still a fundamentally heterosexual activity: “The union of one man, with one woman, voluntarily entered into for life.” The Church of England happens to think it should stay that way.
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How much has female employment risen since 2010?
It’s that nagging women’s issue the PM just can’t seem to get away from: female employment. Just how many women have got jobs since the election – is Mr Cameron right that the number is on the rise?