Reality Check
By The Spectator
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Description
Reality Check cuts through the spin and explains the numbers behind the noise. In each episode, The Spectator’s economics editor Michael Simmons and in-the-know guests will make a data-driven case on a story hogging the headlines.
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Council budgets are financial black holes – what's the point in voting?
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May 07, 2026 |
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Polanski slams the 'war on drugs' – here's why he's wrong about legalisation
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Don't believe the headline: the truth about unemployment data
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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How the leasehold mafia screwed a generation of homeowners
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Benefits Britain exposed: are you paying for someone else's day out?
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Could the Iran war wreck your mortgage?
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Energy bailout? Why Britain can’t afford a cap on household bills
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Britain can have AI or Net Zero – but it can’t have both
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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This oil crisis could be the worst we've ever seen – former Trump economist Tyler Goodspeed
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Reality Check live: Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers the Spring Statement
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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SEND madness: Britain faces 'ruinous costs' from over diagnosing children
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Debt bomb: the £100 billion problem nobody talks about
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Keir Starmer has done nothing for Britain's young
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Peter Schiff on the dollar: America's bust is the world's boom
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Why the housing crisis is far worse than Labour wants you to believe
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Andy Burnham’s bond blip, scrapping the OBR & why Rishi Sunak deserves more credit – James Nation
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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SNP budget: the smallest tax cut in history
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Who's to blame for Britain's water crisis?
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Could Britain's migration crisis already be over?
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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2025: a year of tears, tariffs & taxes
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Electrify everything! Octopus boss on Britain's energy problems
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Why Wes Streeting is right about junior doctors
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Are thousands of kids really living in poverty?
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Christopher Snowdon: the truth about Ozempic, obesity & the NHS
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Rachel Reeves’s Budget is a shambles
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Benjamin Disraeli to Rachel Reeves – how each Chancellor drank their way through the Budget
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Why British business is doomed to fail - and how to fix it | Entrepreneur Luke Johnson
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Rory Sutherland: Britain isn’t working – here’s how to fix it
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Datageddon: Britain's stats have become dangerously unreliable
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Is Brexit to blame for Britain’s economic doom loop?
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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The rich are leaving Britain – and making you poorer
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Arthur Laffer: Britain is taxing itself to death
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Reality Check – Trailer
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Oct 23, 2025 |