You're more likely to die if admitted to hospital during the weekend. It's a shocking truth, and one that's explored further in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine today. Last year, as Pete blogged at the time, the 2011 Dr Foster Hospital Guide discovered that emergency patients are 10 per cent more likely to die if admitted at the weekend. Today's report goes further ...

This morning the question was asked about whether Obamanomics has led the United States into a liquidity trap created by having the lowest possible interest rates and a non-growing economy? That question was clearly answered by examining the treasury yield curve and the economic forecasts out of the CBO. Now in his own words below President Obama tells you why, given the truth of the first stateme...

Ed Miliband will make the case for keeping Scotland as part of the United Kingdom in a speech in Glasgow on Monday. Miliband is expected to describe the “progressive” argument for rejecting independence in what the party billed as a major speech on the constitution. He’s not listed there as telling them the truth. That

Setting the Truth Free: The inside story of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign Friday 3 February, 6.30pm  Julieann Campbell and Gareth Peirce, will be at Bookmarks on 3 February at 6:30pm all welcome. On 30th January 1972 the British army in Derry shot dead thirteen people during a Civil rights march in Derry. The British Government then covered up what had happened and blamed the marchers fo...

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics about lying. The University of Essex has today published a study about dishonesty in Britain, and its conclusions are prompting some concern. The ‘ethics and integrity project’ found that our society is far more relaxed about the truth than it used to be — only one person in every three, apparently, is now willing to condemn lying in th...

Cartoonists like to portray Alex Salmond as a modern-day Braveheart preparing to charge the English enemy. But, in truth, Salmond’s strategy is far more subtle — and dangerous — than that.   The SNP leader’s piece in The Guardian today — a preview of the Hugo Young lecture he’s delivering tonight — downplays what a dramatic step independence would be....

Today Boris Johnson has claimed that he has protected "police officers from cuts". This is completely untrue and at odds with the Metropolitan Police's own figures. The latest figures from the police have confirmed that Boris Johnson has cut 1,782 police officers in the last 18 months. * In March 2010 there were from 33,260 police officers in London; * By October 2011 there were just 31,478 p...

When someone tells us he’s going to give us the real skinny always worth looking to see what he’s leaving out so as to mislead. The point is this: we will always have big deficits as long as tax policy is radically different from the post-second world war average until about 1981. And Republicans now

The Obama American flag lapel pin story redux! This was sent to me by email this morning, and although according to Snopes.com this story about then Senator Barack Obama is False, it is nonetheless unfortunately and completely believable! File this under 2012 presidential election notes. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction! Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening....

Fund’s role in the Greek crisis has mainly been to bear inconvenient arithmetic to eurozone authorities and bondholders