The Telegraph

Fact checks and analysis on The Telegraph — covering mostly stories from the Daily Telegraph newspaper in the UK.

4 June 2025

Telegraph overstates resident doctors’ pay demands

The union representing resident doctors is not asking for an extra 29% on top of this year’s 5.4% pay rise, as the paper reported. The demand is for a 29% rise on last year’s pay.

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15 May 2025

Fake Telegraph cover praising Pakistan Air Force spreads online

An image appearing to show the front page of the Daily Telegraph from 10 May is circulating online, but it’s not genuine and there are signs it was made with AI.

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30 April 2025

Fake Nigel Farage article supporting means-tested pensions shared online

The screenshot, made to look like it has been published by the Telegraph, has been edited. No such article exists.

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5 September 2024

Scientists have not discovered that ‘autism can be reversed’

A US study published in June was limited in scope, and experts say autism cannot be reversed, or cured.

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16 August 2024

Benefits claims for autism and ADHD have not increased by 200,000

Contrary to claims in the Telegraph, benefits claims for under-18s with autism and ADHD have not increased by 200,000 since Covid.

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25 March 2021

Boris Johnson handgun quote is real

In 1997 he wrote ‘Nanny is confiscating their toys’ referring to gun owners following a handgun ban prompted by the Dunblane Massacre.

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27 February 2020

Boris Johnson did write that “blue collar” men are likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless

In a 1995 Spectator article, Boris Johnson wrote that ”blue collar” men are likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless.

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