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By filtering out the harmful UV rays from sunlight, verified sunglasses protect your eyes and the skin around them, and their ...
Of those voting, 90% supported strike action. But turnout was just over 55%, so many of those eligible didn’t vote at all.
The Conservatives haven’t fully explained the calculations behind this claim, but based on the details reported it is not ...
There’s no evidence for claims it was to not “offend” the festival’s crowd—the RAF says it’s because the planes were ...
The defence secretary has again made an error in referring to the government’s record on immigration returns, as has a post ...
NHS England also publishes a figure for the median wait, in weeks, for cases where someone has not started to receive treatment yet. Because it’s the median, this number shows what you would see if ...
A guide to the backlog of asylum decisions, and how changes to asylum law have impacted how cases are processed.
In recent years, the UK’s asylum backlog has been at the heart of the debate over immigration. Since the 2019 general election it has increased substantially, reaching the highest level on record in ...
In the last year we've fact checked at least 10 examples of fake offers supposedly from Amazon circulating on social media, promising everything from iPads to Dyson vacuum cleaners at very low prices ...
A video is being shared online with claims it shows Iran’s attack on a US airbase in Qatar—but it isn’t real, and was ...
Revenue from the North Sea oil and gas reserves would be an important source of income for an independent Scotland, if it wanted to continue spending at the current level. How these resources would be ...
Our verdict A few dozen people have died as a result of a Covid-19 vaccination, but the vaccines have also prevented tens of thousands of deaths. This means that on balance there would have been more ...