A post on Facebook claims that since 2001, Scotland has sent £900 billion in tax to “Westminster” but only received £447.5 billion in return, meaning that Scotland subsidises England. It doesn’t. What this post fails to include is the amount of money that the UK government spends for or in Scotland. How Scottish public spending… Read More »
For the year ending March 2020, the crime survey of England and Wales estimated that 757,000 men experienced domestic abuse—that is approximately seven men in every 100. Rachel Maclean MP, 18 October 2021. During a debate in the House of Commons on 18 October, the Safeguarding Minister, Rachel Maclean, made an error over the share… Read More »
A Facebook post claims that a letter published in The Times on 16 October 2021 claims to be from a doctor that died five years ago. The post also gathered a lot of attention on Twitter. The letter writer, Martin Spiro, who spoke about his time as a medical student, wrote to the paper arguing… Read More »
A Facebook post shared almost 700 times suggests that “in a few weeks” Ontario in Canada will implement a social credit scheme based around QR codes. The post claims that “a QR code social credit scheme” will give the government the power to turn off your access to money. It warns that people could incur… Read More »
A video on Facebook, performed in the style of a rap battle and viewed more than 36,000 times, makes a number of misleading claims about Covid-19 and the vaccines. In it, the self-proclaimed “truther” tells their “vaxxer” alter-ego that Covid-19 is as deadly as the flu, alludes to ivermectin as an effective treatment for the… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Galaxies. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Galaxies 1. Our own galaxy, The Milky Way has other smaller galaxies known satellites galaxies that orbit around it. – Source 2. These interstellar objects that are smaller than galaxies have been named dwarf galaxies that have several billion stars and there are even…… Read More »
A post shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter claims that Sainsbury’s will no longer sell fireworks due to animals being frightened by the products. Some people have long campaigned for firework sales to the general public to be banned, amid reports of animals being severely distressed by the loud noises caused during displays.… Read More »
A tweet with over 5,000 retweets claimed on 18 October: “There were 229,000 new cases of coronavirus in the world yesterday. The UK provided 20% of them. 1 in 5 of the new cases in the whole world was on our little island.” That’s not quite the case. Data from the University of Oxford’s Our… Read More »
Boris Johnson: So together we’re putting in £200 million, I think Bill [Gates]’s putting in £200 million if I’ve got the numbers right, just checking. Bill Gates: £400 [million] each. Global Investment Summit broadcast, 19 October 2021. Bill Gates wrongly claimed that Breakthrough Energy (a network founded by Mr Gates) and the UK government were… Read More »
