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A cardiologist called Dr Aseem Malhotra, who we have fact checked before, made unevidenced and misleading claims at the event ...
The police in Ireland confirmed no criminal offence occurred in relation to the clip. A viral video is circulating online ...
We’ve looked into the numbers after claims from a number of Conservative MPs, including the party’s leader Kemi Badenoch.
Thousands have shared altered photos of street artist Banksy’s most recent mural at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.
A popular alternative therapy which claims to ‘flush out’ gallstones is not a proven treatment, and research has shown it ...
This morning in an interview on LBC, recently appointed migration and citizenship minister Mike Tapp MP claimed that “deportations are up to 35,000 now”. We don’t know how many of the enforced returns ...
Has the Premier League ‘banned’ rainbow armbands and shoelaces? The Premier League is no longer taking part in the ‘Rainbow Laces’ campaign, but neither rainbow laces nor armbands have been banned by ...
This explainer is part of a series Full Fact is publishing exploring a range of topics. We’ll be updating these articles on a regular basis—this article was last updated on 11 September 2025 and the ...
In recent years, the UK’s asylum backlog has been at the heart of the debate over immigration. Since the 2019 general election the backlog has increased substantially, reaching the highest level on ...
Health secretary Wes Streeting claimed Labour has carried out “record levels” of returns and deportations, but that’s not ...
There is no evidence for Marburg virus being in the Covid vaccines. 5G does not cause viral illnesses. A Facebook post contains a screenshot of a tweet from May 2022 that says: “Marburg is in the vax.
It doesn’t. This claim is made by selectively choosing definitions from different languages and cultures. AstraZeneca’s name was created from a merger, with ‘Astra’ coming from the Greek for ‘star’.