@georginalee.bsky.social
FactCheck and Data News Editor at Channel 4 News. I cover UK and US politics, economics, the NHS, crime and justice, the environment, immigration, Israel Gaza, Ukraine Russia, and misinformation.
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28.11.2025 08:14 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Rachel Reeves says "This new surcharge will raise over £400 million by 2031 and will be charged on less than the top one per cent of properties".
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These stats don't include the many homes worth over £2m that haven't been sold in the last three years - but they could show us which parts of the country will face this squeeze.
(Btw the Isles of Scilly are high up in the list because there were just 8 sales in those years)
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.
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Let me guess, the effect size was even greater among girls who played polo on their own horses
11.09.2025 10:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m looking forward to talking all things misinformation with @rorypecktrust.bsky.social at the Frontline Club on 23 September!
10.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
No stone-throwing for this guy
16.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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We've FactCheck-ed Donald Trump's progress on 65 campaign pledges. Of those, we find he:
✔️Has delivered or is on track to keep 30 promises
✖️Is off track or has taken no meaningful action on 17
The rest are just too early to judge.
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.
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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!
27.03.2025 16:17 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
You can find out what's happening in your local hospital with our brand new tool, NurseCheck. Head to: channel4.com/nursecheck
20.03.2025 08:12 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1BREAKING: 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.
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That's fine, I can wait until twenty to nine
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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.
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The data also shows significant differences between male and female murder victims.
Men are more likely than women to be the victim of homicide.
Men are more likely to be killed by a friend or acquaintance.
Women are much more likely to be killed by a partner or ex.
The same data shows that black people are four times more likely than white people to be victims of murder.
Of the black people killed last year, more than a third were aged just 16 to 24 at the time of their death.
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.
That's the million dollar question... and they didn't ask it!
27.01.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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]
All findings are based on the latest release from the Scottish Health Survey 2022, published today. Age group data is from a sample of 2,782 adults. Income data from 465 adults. Health conditions from 1,262 adults. All samples were weighted to reflect wider population.
www.gov.scot/publications...
5. Across all age groups (aged 16+), women are 39% more likely than men to be providing unpaid care.
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4. Nearly 30% of women aged 55 to 64 are providing unpaid care. Women in this demographic are nearly 50% more likely to be carers than their male peers.
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3. Women are more likely than men to be unpaid carers - even if they have long term health conditions themselves.
Most striking is that among people with a 'non-limiting long-term condition', women were more than twice as likely as men to be carers.
2. Women in all income quintiles are more likely than their male equivalents to be providing unpaid care.
Biggest disparity is among people earning £39-£59k, the second-richest group, where women are 54% more likely to be carers than men.
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.