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NEW: I've crunched the stats and these are the places that could have highest proportion of mansion tax payers after today's #budget. In Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea, more than a quarter of homes sold in the last three years were worth over £2m.

Delighted to welcome Tami Hoffman, Director of Public Policy @theguardian.com to our stellar panel @georginalee.bsky.social FactCheck & Data News Editor @channel4news.bsky.social, Dr Manny Ahmed Founder & CEO @openorigins.bsky.social. Join us at The Frontline Club, London, Tues 23 Sept at 7pm.

An expert panel discussion is coming to the home of independent journalism in London, @frontlineclub inc @georginalee.bsky.social 🤩 Tuesday 23 Sept, 7pm. Get your tickets here 🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panel-discussion-tackling-fake-news-misinformation-tickets-1517411501649?aff=oddtdtcreator

I’m looking forward to talking all things misinformation with @rorypecktrust.bsky.social at the Frontline Club on 23 September!

No stone-throwing for this guy

✨Career highlight✨ I was lucky enough to attend this year’s BAFTAs on Sunday, cheering on TWO nominations for @channel4news.bsky.social — including one for a story I worked on: Undercover Inside Reform’s Campaign. No home win on this occasion but an incredible night with fantastic colleagues.

How many election promises has Donald Trump kept in his first 100 days? You can find out at our new web platform, launching today: TrumpTracker. There you'll hear him make his pledges and read verdicts on his progress against each one from the FactCheck team. channel4.com/trump

Very exciting that a story I worked on - Undercover Inside Reform's Campaign - has been nominated for a BAFTA. And with two of three nominations going to @channel4news.bsky.social, fingers crossed for a home team win!

You can find out what's happening in your local hospital with our brand new tool, NurseCheck. Head to: channel4.com/nursecheck

BREAKING: After a ten-month battle our FactCheck team has obtained NHS data revealing 1 in 3 of England's hospitals are missing at least 10% of their planned-for nurses across their wards.

That's fine, I can wait until twenty to nine www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm very pleased to be featured in this @reutersinstitute.bsky.social / @ox.ac.uk report by the BBC's Tom Edginton. We discussed the history of the Channel 4 News FactCheck team here at ITN, and the future of fact-checking. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

New data from the Office for National Statistics tells us about murder victims and perpetrators. Perhaps the most shocking finding is that babies under 1 year are the single age group most at risk of homicide. These horrific crimes happen to 20 in every million babies.

More than half of British men say they could fully or partially explain what crypto is - compared to only a 35% of women. [Data was released a few days ago by the ONS]

Astonishing data from Scotland today reveals how women are much more likely than men to be providing unpaid care. A thread on what I've found in the official stats: 1. Women aged 25 to 34 are 80% more likely than men of the same age to be unpaid carers.

How many people wait longer than 12 hours on a trolley after doctors have decided to admit them to hospital? In December 2011, this happened to 4 patients in England's NHS. In December 2024, it happened to 54,207 patients.

🚨NEW NHS ENGLAND DATA🚨 Nearly 680,000 people waited over four hours in A&E last month - up 30,000 since November. That's more than NINE TIMES higher than in December 2011.

How many elective care cases* are still waiting for treatment 18 weeks after being referred by a GP? In 2007, when records began under the last Labour government, it was 1.8 million. In 2010, when the Coalition took office, it was 210,000. In the latest stats - October 2024 - it's 3.1 million.

🚨 NEW NHS stats show flu positivity rates rocketing among 5 to 14-year-olds, as well as younger adults 🚨

🚨 NEW stats reveal the flu crisis hitting the NHS this winter 🚨 The proportion of tests coming back positive for flu - a good proxy for the rate of flu in the wider population - is already much higher than it was this time last year.

NEW: Average UK electricity bills have more than doubled in twenty years - even though consumption has dropped 25%.

NEW: Which areas of Britain have seen the biggest rises in house prices in the last 20 years? Top of today's list are: 🏠 SHETLAND ⬆️316% since 2004 🏠 ORKNEY ⬆️193% 🏠 PENDLE ⬆️171% 🏠 HACKNEY ⬆️169% 🏠 MANCHESTER ⬆️165% 🏠 WALTHAM FOREST ⬆️162%

NEW: The average FIRST TIME BUYER in Kensington & Chelsea is paying £966,344 to get on the housing ladder. That's the most expensive area in Britain for FTBs, followed by: 🏠Westminster (£873,912) 🏠City of London (£731,332) 🏠Camden (£677,607)

NEW data out this week reveals the places where locals were most likely to sponsor a Ukrainian through the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As of September, the top three were: ◾ Kensington ◾ Derbyshire Dales ◾ Merton (SW London)

What next for millions of refugees who escaped Syria? www.channel4.com/news/what-ne...

NEW: You can only afford to buy an average-priced house today if you're in the top 10% of earners in England. And that's the top 10% of earners of *all age groups* - not just the top earners among young people...

New stats reveal the most popular baby boy's name last year was Muhammad. But more interesting are the *least* popular names... CLIVE (4 babies born last year) TERRENCE (4) TORY (4) TITAN (4) ...and below them with 3 babies each: ARCHIMEDES, and HUCKLEBERRY

NEW: ONS figures on life expectancy came out today. These are the places that saw the biggest rises since 2003: Camden gained 5.6 years Lambeth gained 5.3 years Inverclyde gained 5.3 years Tower Hamlets gained 5.2 years Shetland gained 5.1 years

Good discussion at the #OfCom conference yesterday. There’s lots to do!

I was very pleased to be invited to talk about misinformation at Ofcom’s Making Sense of Media conference yesterday — alongside @morrischris.bsky.social of Full Fact and Richard Burgess from the BBC.

Boris Johnson has made the claim now in French that the UK* got vaccines faster thanks to Brexit. This is incorrect. *he says Angleterre but let’s assume he means UK

What are the government's plans for inheritance tax on farms and who will have to pay? Our FactCheck team takes a look. www.channel4.com/news/factche...

Winter sun on a lunchtime stroll 🌿

We've been looking at how the new inheritance tax on farms will work - and why the apparent mismatch between Treasury figures and those from farming groups isn't what it seems...

Channel 4 News is officially on Bluesky

Eye-popping stat of the day 👀 The people of Kensington will pay more in inheritance tax than everyone in the North East of England combined.

NEW: Spending watchdog report out today shows a significant rise in Universal Credit fraud and error since Covid - costing £6.5bn last year. The Department for Work & Pensions says we won't return to pre-pandemic levels because of "an increasing propensity for fraud in society".

With followers on here relatively easy to come by, I wonder if the new currency will be engagement with individual posts?

Looking for Channel 4 News journalists, editors, producers and staff? You’re in luck: go.bsky.app/6HZ1mvW

It’s 5 years since we started looking at what’s in our water. www.channel4.com/news/900000-...

My good friend, former FactCheck emperor and now best-selling author of THE PARTISAN and THE EXILE @patrickworrall.bsky.social has joined Bluesky and is worth a follow. While you're at it, check out his books. If you like rich historical WWII/Cold War spy thrillers, he's your man.

NEW: Nearly 1 in 3 Brits in their 30s and 40s says they're doing worse in life than their parents were at their age. That's more than any other age group. This is new data from the ONS Social Mobility Survey out today. Let's take a look...

Bluesky old hands! Can anyone help with this 'invalid handle' issue? I've tried a fix that Bluesky recommended last year but to no avail.

If you're looking for Channel 4 News journalists, please enjoy this starter pack. I'm new to the platform myself so will add colleagues as I find them on here! go.bsky.app/6HZ1mvW

NEW: NHS England data out today shows a slight fall in the elective care backlog. But it's still 3x larger than it was in 2010 -- and close to the record high of 7.77 million seen in September 2023.

I was delighted to talk about AI and misinformation with the Rory Peck Trust last night. Thank you to them and the beautiful Mayfair Arts Club for hosting us.

My colleague Brian O'Flynn has been looking at the amount of aid reaching Gaza since the start of the war last October. Whether you look at UNRWA data or Israeli statistics, the number of trucks per day is well below the target set by the Biden administration. www.channel4.com/news/factche...

BlueSky advice requested: is there a way to search for starter packs? Or do you just have to wait for one to cross your path and sign up if you like the look of it? I look forward to feeling suitably silly when the answer turns out to be obvious.