What has the EU ever done for me?
Fact checks about reported levels of EU funding, budget controls, laws and freedoms
UN wrong on asylum seekers in Britain
Peter Sutherland of the UN is right that the UK receives fewer asylum seekers than other EU countries, but not as few as BBC listeners were led to believe.
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Are British workers less productive than Germans and French?
It takes on average a British worker to Friday to do what equivalent workers in Germany and France will complete by the end of Thursday afternoon. Chuka Umunna, shadow business …
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New Year's resolution #3: I will not repeat inaccurate claims
As Oscar Wilde might have said had he jacked in the play writing and become a factchecker, "to make a mistake once is unfortunate, to make it twice looks like …
Read more…Women in science: does Europe fare as poorly as the UK?
Yesterday Full Fact took a look at the extent to which women were under-represented in the sciences, after an EU advertising campaign that insisted that science was "a girl thing" …
Read more…Science: a girl thing, not yet a women thing — women in science in the UK
The European Commission's 'Science: It's a girl thing!' campaign launched at the end of last week. A controversial video brought the campaign a good deal of attention. But is the …
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