Category Archives: Fact-checking

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Number Crunching, David Cameron Edition

06May09 – 12:59

£1.7 billion
amount raised per year by the 50% tax, described by David Cameron as a "pathetic piece of class war posturing" and "distraction burglary"

£0.22 billion
amount saved per year by scrapping ID Cards and ContactPoint, as part of David Cameron's "return to traditional public spending control" and "new culture of thrift in government"

From David Cameron's spring [...]

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Andrew Gilligan – sockpuppeteer

30Apr09 – 10:37

Andrew Gilligan in OCTOPUPPET: a short film about sock-puppets from Tim Ireland on Vimeo.
There's a fair bit of background to this on Tim's site.

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Financial crisis: Perspective.

24Apr09 – 12:34

Brian Barder offers a response to the main claims about UK government finances.

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Economy | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Canada’s Quiet Bargain

24Apr09 – 12:28

The benefits of public spending - a calculator. (h/t Clifford)

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Hold the front page

18Mar09 – 23:56

Knife crime isn't going through the roof after all. Every paper will be full of it tomorrow. Remember where you read it first...

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Context

07Mar09 – 12:10

In the week in which we learned that Sir Fred Goodwin would walk off with a pension of £700,000 a year, the Odious Taxpayers' Alliance have decided to focus upon the gold-plated pensions (average £3,800 per year) that are awarded to local authority staff. As Unison have put it, more tin-foil than gold plating. Via [...]

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