Economy, Business & Finance
Ashes to ashes, grants to loans: how scrapping maintenance grants will affect students
The government is scrapping maintenance grants, replacing them with larger loans. What effect will this have? Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
The government is scrapping maintenance grants, replacing them with larger loans. What effect will this have? Read
Health
It's claimed that better NHS care at weekends—the "7-day NHS"—could save 3,000 lives, or 6,000, or somewhere in between. In reality, nobody really knows. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Research carried out for the government a few years ago is the source for Andy Burnham's claim that our railways cost 40% more to run than others in Europe. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Department for Work and Pensions says that less than 6% of JSA claimants are sanctioned. An FOI request found a figure of 18%. Which is right? Read
A BBC infographic suggests that farmers make a loss of 14p per litre on the milk they supply. This isn't correct; on its own figures, it's more like 6p-8p. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The Prime Minister has said that on average, a woman earns about 80p for every £1 earned by a man. Is he right? Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The now-defunct Kids Company claimed to be helping 36,000 people in 2015—the same number it claimed to help in 2011. Does this add up? Read
Immigration
Figures given by Channel 4 News on asylum seekers are correct: in the first three months of 2015, six EU countries received more applications than Britain. Read
Immigration
It was a plan "too preposterous for words" according to the Belfast Telegraph, but that didn't stop a number of outlets reporting seriously on it. Read
Europe
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. Read
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