Turns out Britons support an 80+ driving ban more than you’d think. New ChooseMyCar research puts the figure at 38 per cent, people who genuinely believe over-80s shouldn’t be driving. Dig into the younger age brackets, though, and it’s a different story entirely. More than half back the ban outright. So yeah, the conversation about […]
Verdict: False The claim that Barack Obama publicly announced Michelle Obama had surgery is fabricated. The images were AI-generated. No credible outlet reported it. No statement came from anyone in the Obama family. Snopes investigated and called it exactly what it is. Something started going around on Facebook in March 2026. No byline, no journalist, […]
Are AI-generated websites ranking on Google? Loads of people are nervous about this, and fair enough — half the web is built or written with AI now. Here’s the honest answer: yes, they rank. But only if they’re actually good. Let’s check that claim against what Google says and what the real numbers show, then […]
You have probably seen this one before. Someone shares a post claiming Muslims do not have to pay council tax if they use a room at home for prayer. It does the rounds on Facebook, pops up on X, gets copy-pasted into forums, and every time it resurfaces, it gets thousands of shares before anyone […]
Short answer? Yes. If you’ve been asking, ‘Will minimum wage go up in 2026?’, you can stop wondering. The new rates landed on 1st April 2026, and roughly 2.7 million workers woke up to a bigger pay packet. The National Living Wage now sits at £12.71 an hour for anyone aged 21 or over. And […]
Liverpool’s season was a mess. There’s no gentler way to put it. Twenty-five points off the top, defensive collapses that made you wince, a very public falling out with their best player of the last decade, and long stretches where the whole thing just looked flat. Not an unlucky flat. Actually flat. And somehow, right […]
Historians estimate that there are over 4,000 castles, castle ruins, and fortified sites. They aren’t mere old stone buildings adorned with antiques and portraits. Many of them carry the haunted stories that locals pass to their generations. The stories of dark corridors, strange sounds in the midnight, and tragic deaths that people believe to be […]
The period between 30 March and 4 April 2026 has been particularly busy for the fact-checking community across the British Isles. As social media algorithms keep prioritising engagement over accuracy, several high-profile stories have gained massive traction while being completely untrue. The report calls out the top fake news in the UK this week, as […]
The streaming market in Britain just hit its biggest turning point in over a decade. Telly fans in the UK have been living with a huge gap between what was on air across the pond and what was legally available this side of the Atlantic for years. It sometimes felt like being a second-class citizen […]
There was always this sort of comfortable, if sort of dreary, notion that climate change was a slow-motion car wreck. We thought we knew the speedometer fairly well. The world warmed up about 0.2°C per decade for about forty years. It was bad, sure, but it was also predictable. You could plan for it. But […]
