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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

A picture shows Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad and his wife in Moscow after the collapse of his regime. This is not true. The picture is a still from a video of the pair filmed in Aleppo, ...

This is not a real photo. It comes from a video uploaded to TikTok and created using artificial intelligence. An image is being shared on social media with claims it shows a prisoner who has been ...

The latest release of figures on net migration from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) received widespread coverage and even prompted a speech from the Prime Minister, as well as a range of ...

On BBC Question Time last night, skills minister Jacqui Smith, Baroness Smith of Malvern, appeared to repeat a claim we’ve already heard from the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, that Conservative ...

It’s too early for us to say what progress has been made on this pledge. We don’t expect to have data for Labour’s first year in government until November 2025. The government’s “Plan for Change”, ...

The methane-reducing cow feed additive is considered safe by food safety authorities in the approved doses. And contrary to ...