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FactCheck Q&A: what is the voter ID row all about?
Not having to show ID creates an obvious theoretical risk of “personation” – people pretending to be someone else in order to steal their vote. But there is no evidence that this is a widespread problem in the UK.
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Government hasn’t spent half of promised cladding cash
Some £1.6bn was due to have been spent by 31 March this year.
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To mask or not to mask? The science and the politics of face coverings
Do masks actually protect against Covid-19? Why is there so little scientific evidence that they are effective? And how did a piece of health advice get so political?
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What are the consequences for politicians who lie?
Who gets to decide whether someone in power is guilty of lying? And what penalties are in place for those who are found to have deliberately misled parliament or the public?
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Government publishes another 81 PPE contracts after legal deadline
A further 81 PPE contracts have come to light that breached the government’s own procurement rules.
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FactCheck Q&A: the gaps in Britain’s lobbying laws
Campaigners say David Cameron’s activities prove that UK law on lobbying is not fit for purpose.
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Blood clots and broken promises: the AstraZeneca saga
Is the AstraZeneca jab safe? Spoiler alert: yes, probably. So why has it been dominating the headlines for weeks? And do broken promises and missed targets mean that the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccination is under threat?
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FactCheck Q&A: the UK’s AstraZeneca blood clot announcement
How does the possible clotting risk compare to Covid-19 and to other medications?
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Shaun Bailey’s dubious council tax claim
The Conservative hopeful says he’ll reverse Sadiq Khan’s latest tax hike.
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How effective are masks at stopping Covid-19 spread?
The evidence isn’t clear-cut.
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Does the UK have enough Covid vaccine?
The latest government figures cast doubt on whether AstraZeneca is hitting its target to supply 2 million doses of vaccine a week. The number of Pfizer doses administered has also shrunk.
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Ministers’ questionable claims about when they knew of symptom-free Covid spread
There was evidence for asymptomatic transmission very early in the pandemic.
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What is happening with Britain’s vaccine supply?
AstraZeneca has committed to delivering 2 million doses of vaccine a week, but it’s not easy to check whether this benchmark is being hit.
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England will still unlock slowly despite vaccinating faster than government assumed
It looks like we’re weeks ahead of schedule, but government says it won’t change course.
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Why are countries suspending the AstraZeneca vaccine?
AstraZeneca said the numbers of people reporting serious blood clotting disorders after receiving its Covid vaccine were “much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size”.
