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FactCheck: what’s going on with Covid testing?
Official figures show a recent fall in the number of people being tested each day in England.
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FactCheck: government rationale for a precedent to break international law doesn’t seem to add up
A senior minister cited the 2013 Finance Act as precedent. But it’s not so simple.
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FactCheck: what’s the reason for 14-day travel quarantine?
There’s evidence that shorter isolation periods combined with testing could be just as effective as the current regime.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s schools attack on Starmer
Boris Johnson claimed that Keir Starmer’s assertion today that ‘school is safe’ was ‘the first time in four months that he’s said it’.
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FactCheck: what do the coronavirus protesters want?
The StandUpX website makes a number of claims which are highly debatable or straightforwardly untrue.
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‘British television can tell better stories if it better reflects who we are as a nation’ – historian David Olusoga
We speak to professor, historian, writer and broadcaster David Olusoga.
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FactCheck: how will exam results in England, Wales and NI work?
The Education Secretary announced a ‘triple lock’ for pupils in England late last night.
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Labour pays damages to anti-semitism whistleblowers
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is continuing efforts to distance himself from his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn.
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FactCheck: Starmer contradicted Corbyn on the Salisbury attack
Keir Starmer said the Salisbury attack “deserves to be condemned by all of us without reservation – without reservation”.
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Sunak warns ‘tough choices ahead’ for economy, over taxes and spending
‘Tough choices’ lie ahead, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned, as the economy continues to count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s misleading figures on government ‘New Deal’
The Prime Minister suggested the ‘New Deal’ will pump £34bn into the NHS, but that’s not the case.
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FactCheck: business secretary wrong about testing figures
Alok Sharma said 240,000 people had been tested on Monday.
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Series 5, Episode 6: David ‘Sideman’ Whitely
Jamaican-born comedian and presenter David Whitely, created his own fame on social media under many aliases. But he’s best known as BBC 1Xtra DJ ‘Sideman’.
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DJ Sideman: ‘‘We are talking about the murder of people – it is not a hashtag, it is not a TikTok dance, it is not a game.’
I spoke to BBC 1Xtra Presenter David Whitely also known as Sideman and the musician, filmmaker and DJ Don Letts who spent time with Bob Marley when he played in London.
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Was Cummings’ trip to Barnard Castle ‘consistent’ with police guidelines?
Michael Gove defended Dominic Cummings, claiming that police guidelines at the time allowed people to drive in order to exercise. But does this defence stack up?