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A Covid vaccine made with HIV protein was trialled but never rolled out
A viral clip from a BBC documentary shows that an HIV protein was used in a Covid vaccine trial, but fails to mention the ...
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How common is it for democracies to postpone elections during wartime?
US president Donald Trump’s claim yesterday that his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “dictator without ...
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The higher rate income tax threshold isn’t being reduced to £37,701
Posts shared on social media have wrongly claimed that new tax thresholds will mean you have to pay income tax at a rate of ...
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The government has not spent £8 billion on ‘woke projects’
The figure of £8 billion represents the total annual budget for UK Research and Innovation. Funding for projects that the ...
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The UK’s population is not projected to grow by five million ‘in just seven years’
Figures quoted by the Express actually refer to the projected population growth over a 10 year period, between 2022 and 2032.
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Policing minister wrong to claim UK is projected to have the ‘fastest growing economy in Europe’
On Sky News this morning, policing minister Dame Diana Johnson MP claimed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) say the UK is ...