We’ve crunched the numbers after a claim on the Today programme from former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson.

Posts online falsely claim a video shows US military equipment “given” to the Taliban when it withdrew from Afghanistan.

Posts shared thousands of times on social media claim the PM is going to “means test” pensions. But there’s no evidence this ...

A post circulating on social media falsely claims that there are 1.6 million asylum seekers receiving “long term benefits”.

Rishi Sunak claimed Labour has ‘scrapped’ cost of living support for pensioners, and the Winter Fuel Payment. We've had a ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer claimed that the state pension ‘will increase by more than any loss of the Winter Fuel ...

This isn’t correct. The NHS England budget is roughly 20 times the tax revenues generated by tobacco. But these revenues are ...

The report recommended that NHS England develop a new contract which would help GP practices serve a patient population of ...

A video is being shared with misleading captions claiming it depicts a real attack, when it was a choreographed scene.

This isn’t what it shows. The video shows an arrest for alleged offences against a cat. The woman in the video was born in the US, and it was filmed in Canton—a different town in Ohio. She has pleaded ...

This needs more context. It’s not entirely clear what “decision” the claim refers to, and former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak did reportedly reject proposals to extend an early release scheme before the ...

After the government was criticised for not proceeding with a Conservative plan for a ‘UK connection test’, we take a look at ...