Trade unionist Howard Beckett has claimed that a 0.05% wealth tax on financial transactions would raise £250 billion per year, in a tweet shared thousands of times. Mr Beckett, who is Assistant General Secretary for the Unite union, says that in one year this could pay for a 15% pay rise for NHS workers until… Read More »
A widely shared Facebook post contains a screenshot showing that a police car’s MOT certificate is “overdue”. This is an accurate reflection of what you’ll see, at the time of writing, if you search for the car’s registration number on the government’s MOT checking service. It does not mean that the car is in breach… Read More »
“430,000 more in employment now than there were before the pandemic began” Boris Johnson, 23 February 2022. At Prime Minister’s Questions Boris Johnson today repeated misleading statements about employment by claiming there are 430,000 more people “in employment” now than before the pandemic began. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the number of… Read More »
A Facebook post claims that “raw data from a recent Vaccine Surveillance report from the UKHSA shows a sharp drop in vaccine effectiveness against infection in most age groups.” It doesn’t. There are various reasons why this data should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness. Similar assertions have been a common theme of Covid-19… Read More »
In 1999, financial analyst Harry Markopolos had informed the SEC that he believed it was legally and mathematically impossible to achieve the gains Bernie Madoff claimed. It took four minutes to conclude that his numbers did not add up, and another minute to suspect they were fraudulent. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List #715… Read More »
He [Keir Starmer] voted 48 times to take this country back into the European Union. Boris Johnson, 26 January 2022. He [Keir Starmer] voted 48 times to take this country back into the EU. Boris Johnson, 31 January 2022. The Leader of the Opposition not only voted 48 times to go back into the EU…… Read More »
