The health secretary Wes Streeting recently said that most young smokers will never be able to break their addiction, and ...

Half the world’s population lives in a country that held an election in 2024. Over 70 countries went to the polls, making it ...

A clip circulating on social media is actually from Taipei in April, not the recent magnitude 7 earthquake off the coast of ...

Sir Keir Starmer claimed there’d been 9,400 returns and that is a 30% increase compared to last year, but there doesn’t ...

The Prime Minister claimed people were “worse off” at the end of the last government, but it’s unclear what time period or ...

There is a two-stage process for defining a “less healthy” food or drink product. Although porridge is “in scope” of the legislation it would also have to score highly on the Nutrient Profiling Model.

Edward Snowden has revealed that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is engaged in weather manipulation, assassination and mind control. This isn’t the case. The source of the ...

An article about NHS England targets in the Times on Monday reported that hospital waiting lists “mean 7.6 million people are in line for treatment”. As we’ve said many times before, this is not quite ...

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