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Three demonstrations of how Full Fact makes a difference in the past few days. Read
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Colour blind awareness in Full Fact graphs
Last week someone from the ONS got in touch pointing out that one of our graphs wasn't accessible to some colour-blind people. We want our work to be accessible to … Read
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The tables have turned on employment figures
This week the ONS completed changes to its releases that will make it much easier to access and use its data Read
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Explaining the EU deal
The Prime Minister’s EU renegotiation deal, or “new settlement for the United Kingdom”, is a package of changes to EU rules being discussed by European leaders on 18 and 19 … Read
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Data on migrants' benefits: statistics watchdog highlights time lag
The Government has released data to support its claims about migrants and benefits, but the UK Statistics Authority is disappointed about the delay. Read
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DWP breaches statistics rules
The UK Statistics Authority revealed an official confession today of misdeeds from the Department for Work and Pensions. Read
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Factchecking the Energy Bill second reading
We've factchecked claims about onshore wind, the Renewables Obligation, energy targets, the cost of energy to consumers, and jobs in the energy industry. Read
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The government doesn't own public information
HMRC has refused an FOI request about migration data. We think this is inadequate. Read
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Health Secretary responds to our correction request on weekend deaths in hospitals
In October we checked the Health Secretary's claim that, "there are 11,000 excess deaths because we do not staff our hospitals properly at weekends." Here's the reply when we asked for a correction. Read
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Hiding the truth in plain sight
What does a Tom Hardy film have in common with the Department of Health? Read
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