FactCheck: Cutting through the rhetoric on abortion
Tory MP Nadine Dorries is leading a campaign to stop two charities from counselling women considering an abortion. Has she got her facts straight?
FactCheck: How’s that riots crackdown going?
“There’s currently no legal mechanism for forcing offenders to agree to meet their victims. If the rioters don’t feel like a face-to-face showdown then, as things stand, they
FactCheck: ‘It’s health and safety gone mad’
‘The “health and safety gone mad” story has become such a newspaper favourite that it’s not a great surprise to discover that sometimes the facts haven’t been allowed
FactCheck: Will prisons in England and Wales burst at the seams?
“The powder-keg potential of the situation is clear to voices from inside the prison system – rapidly rising numbers of new inmates, many of them vulnerable first-timers thrown in with
FactCheck: Is there extra capacity for the students desperate to avoid the fees hike?
“While ministers still expect universities to offer the same number of places they offered last year, they’re not giving them any more money to pay for the extra capacity.”
FactCheck: Police cuts and the magic shrinking numbers
Eyebrow-raising statistics and verbal gymnastics from Theresa May as she insists police cuts are manageable. FactCheck investigates.
FactCheck: London’s Met Police vs New York’s NYPD
Boris Johnson doesn’t want America’s Supercop swooping down on the Met Police with his hard-line “zero tolerance” policies. But how does the NYPD with it’s hard-line
FactCheck: Can councils ‘convict and evict’ rioters?
There was tough talk from the Government today, with Housing Minister Grant Shapps backing councils that want to ‘convict and evict’ rioters from social housing. But is the
FactCheck: Does Boris have the right to weigh into the police cuts row?
Boris Johnson got himself in hot water with fellow Conservatives when he bucked the party line on police cuts. But the Mayor of London has already angered opponents over his own record on funding
FactCheck counts the cost of the riots
It is the police – not insurers – that will have to cover the lion’s share of these costs, FactCheck discovers.
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