Reality Check

Reality Check

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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Episoder(43)

Trump's tariffs & Mamdani's New York – can anything destroy America's economy?

Trump's tariffs & Mamdani's New York – can anything destroy America's economy?

Is the US economy immune to harm? It has been tested this year under Trump's trade tariffs, and inflation fears. Kate Andrews, former economics editor of The Spectator now opinion journalist at the Wa...

19 Mai 27min

How to revive industrial Britain: SDP leader on British steel, the entitlement state & a Farage pact

How to revive industrial Britain: SDP leader on British steel, the entitlement state & a Farage pact

As Keir Starmer's government implodes, the Prime Minister has outlined his vision to regain support – one of which is to nationalise British steel. Michael Simmons is joined by SDP leader William Clou...

14 Mai 28min

Council budgets are financial black holes – what's the point in voting?

Council budgets are financial black holes – what's the point in voting?

May local elections have finally arrived. As 5,066 seats are contested in local councils many are wondering whether there is any point in voting at all. These councils manage budgets worth hundreds of...

7 Mai 11min

Polanski slams the 'war on drugs' – here's why he's wrong about legalisation

Polanski slams the 'war on drugs' – here's why he's wrong about legalisation

Britain has recorded the highest drug deaths in Europe. Green Party leader Zack Polanski has declared that this means the so called 'war on drugs' is not working, and favours a more liberal approach o...

29 Apr 16min

Don't believe the headline: the truth about unemployment data

Don't believe the headline: the truth about unemployment data

Unemployment unexpectedly fell to 4.9 per cent this week. Some in government may been using this to mark a healthy economy but don't believe the headlines. Whilst unemployment may be down, economic in...

24 Apr 12min

How the leasehold mafia screwed a generation of homeowners

How the leasehold mafia screwed a generation of homeowners

Buying a flat in Britain has increasingly become a fool's errand, driven in part by the leasehold system trapping homeowners into flats. When Labour wrote their manifesto they promised reform to the l...

16 Apr 34min

Benefits Britain exposed: are you paying for someone else's day out?

Benefits Britain exposed: are you paying for someone else's day out?

Britain has become a freeloader’s paradise. A working family of four will fork out £111 for a trip to the Tower of London, or £108 to visit London Zoo. With one parent on Universal Credit (UC), howeve...

9 Apr 6min

Could the Iran war wreck your mortgage?

Could the Iran war wreck your mortgage?

What has the war in Iran got to do with Britain’s house buyers? Michael Simmons takes a look at conflicting predictions from economists and the markets on the impact rising oil prices could have on in...

1 Apr 9min

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