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Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei on coronavirus and the rise of modern China
Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has had his share of clashes with the authorities in his home country over the years.
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A Chancellor is gone before he’s even delivered a Budget. That’s not meant to happen.
Dominic Cummings’ push to decide who works in the Special Adviser tier across government and his desire to lash the Treasury to No. 10 has led to one of the biggest reshuffle upsets in living memory.
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FactCheck: is the mainstream media ignoring the yellow vest protests?
Social media is full of claims that mainstream outlets have decided not to cover the protests.
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FactCheck: your Brexit day questions answered
We asked FactCheck readers what they wanted to know about Brexit day.
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Why victims of child sexual exploitation are still being let down by social services
Lessons have been learnt – a phrase which has been uttered after every high-profile child sexual exploitation scandal in the last decade.
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900,000 hours of human sewage and rainwater flow into UK rivers in just one year – revealed
Untreated sewage is being released into rivers across England and Wales – perfectly legally – and campaigners are calling it a ‘dirty little secret’.
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The financial burden of living with cancer
It’s a traumatic diagnosis which precedes often gruelling treatment, but for many people affected by cancer – it’s also a struggle to make ends meet.
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One family’s struggle with Britain’s mental health care system
Mental health has often been seen as the poor relation in healthcare and getting the right support usually involves lengthy waits.
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Will Boris Johnson act differently with a majority?
Just what do we know about the Prime Minister and what he really thinks?
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FactCheck: what might have happened under Proportional Representation?
The Conservatives got 43.6 per cent of all votes cast – but 56 per cent of all the seats in the House of Commons.
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FactCheck: is Labour’s ‘£6,000 savings’ claim misleading?
FactCheck thinks that almost every figure Labour have used is questionable.
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Reddit says US-UK trade document leak linked to Russia
When the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held aloft a 451-page document which he claimed showed the Conservatives were discussing the NHS in trade talks with the US, questions about who had leaked the papers were asked.
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FactCheck: has Scotland ‘subsidised the rest of the UK’?
The claim “UK government figures make it absolutely clear that Scotland has subsidised the rest of the UK in most of the last 40-year period.” Ian Blackford Ian Blackford, the leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons, has been making the case for Scottish independence ahead of the general election. The…
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Brexit Party targets immigration in election ‘contract’
As Nigel Farage held his little blue book of policies aloft, he promised a “political revolution that puts ordinary people first”.
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FactCheck: Lib Dems and others under fire over ‘newspaper’ adverts
The Liberal Democrats have been putting out election leaflets that closely resemble real newspapers.