The Full Fact Podcast

Brexit has been back in the news, with Boris Johnson confirming a trade deal between the UK and Australia. Meanwhile, a dispute between the UK and the EU over sausages is causing problems in Northern Ireland. We take on Brexit fact checks old and new.

Plus we look into false claims linking footballer Christian Eriksen's cardiac arrest with vaccines and discuss CPR guides going viral on social media.

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• What is happening to your NHS data?
• Boris Johnson was broadly right about aid spending at PMQs
• Matt Hancock and hospital to care home transmission

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Following appearances on Andrew Marr and at the Science and Technology Select Committee, we dissect conflicting claims made by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

We explain the controversy and options available to people concerned their NHS GP data is about to be "sold."

And we look into claims made by Boris Johnson at PMQs about foreign aid.

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• False claims about vaccines on ITV’s This Morning
• The BBC did not claim that just 350 people attended last weekend’s anti-lockdown protest
• And Stone Roses’ singer Ian Brown is wrong about giving blood after vaccination.

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Following Saturday's anti-lockdown march in London, we discuss the difficulties in making precise estimates about crowd sizes, looking at famous protests from the past few years.

We debunk misleading claims made by Beverley Turner about the Covid vaccines on This Morning

And after the WHO renamed virus variants after Greek letters, we analyse the language of Covid-19 throughout the pandemic.

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

This week Dominic Cummings, the former Chief Adviser to PM Boris Johnson, made a series of claims about the Government's handling of the pandemic. We break down the facts behind some of what was claimed.

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In light of Dominic Cummings' select committee evidence, host Alexis Conran and Full Fact CEO Will Moy discuss herd immunity and government communications.

We also discuss the phenomenon of 'Edlines' - when a newspaper article completely contradicts its own headline.

And on new feature "I Can't Believe They Fact Checked It," we explain the need to fact check an unusual claim that the Covid vaccine will make you 'bluetooth enabled.'

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A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

• Can you go on holiday to 'amber list' countries?
• Fake missing child reports used to scam Facebook users.
• Covid-19 vaccines haven’t caused 3,362 deaths in America or 1,102 in the UK.

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Host Alexis Conran and Full Fact CEO Will Moy dispel the confusion surrounding the government's travel advice.

Ministers have given conflicting advice on whether travel to 'Amber List' countries is acceptable. We analyse what they've said, and what the official guidance actually permits.

Meanwhile, Alastair Campbell is in our Twitter Hall of Shame, and the Sunday papers are the focus of Media Watch.

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The Sun is wrong to claim that lockdown doubled suicide rates, you don’t usually need photo ID to pick up a parcel, and - no - honey, ginger and pepper isn’t approved treatment for Covid-19. A week of impartial fact checks in one quick blast.

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