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Impartial, empirical, reliable and dispassionate, Channel 4 FactCheck scrutinises the claims and counter claims of those in the public eye.
Labour reckons the SNP wants to empty prisons of muggers, thieves and drug dealers. FactCheck isn't so sure.
"Someone is the victim of a serious assault every four hours", claim the Conservatives. FactCheck looks at the numbers.
Political claims as they happen in fewer than 140 characters.
The Lib Dem leader claims the poor are taxed more heavily than the rich - but is he telling the whole story?
In the last prime minister's questions of the parliamentary session did Brown and David Cameron hang on to the facts?
Have our freedoms come at too high a price?
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