@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.
No stone-throwing for this guy
16.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
And you can watch Channel 4 News' other BAFTA-nominated coverage by my incredible colleagues, Inside Sednaya - The Fall of Assad, here:
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You can watch our BAFTA-nominated coverage, Undercover Inside Reform's Campaign, here:
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✨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.
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.
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!
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 — 👍 20 🔁 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.
20.03.2025 08:12 — 👍 118 🔁 45 💬 5 📌 0
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.
16.01.2025 13:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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.
* These elective care figures refer to cases rather than patients as one person might be waiting for two or more treatments (e.g. a hip replacement and cataracts surgery).
06.01.2025 12:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
I'd be surprised if that's the main driver. Those levies comprise c10% of energy bills. The bigger factor seems to be wholesale costs, hence the leap around 2022. Over the same 20 years, gas bills have nearly doubled, again suggesting it's primarily wholesale prices on the energy markets to blame.
19.12.2024 17:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 NEW NHS stats show flu positivity rates rocketing among 5 to 14-year-olds, as well as younger adults 🚨
19.12.2024 15:40 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 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.
The above are my calculations based on new statistics from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
www.gov.uk/government/s...
