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Buried in this BBC Verify feed, amongst stories about Ukraine, Israel, and Iraq, is the question, "Is Jenrick right about unsolved crime?"

To which, the BBC says "Not quite".

The real answer should be 'no, not at all.' 🧵 1/2

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A section from a BBC Verify story. A picture of Tom Edgington is inserted by his byline. The section reads as follows: "Is Jenrick right about unsolved crime? published at 13:34 13:34 Tom Edgington BBC Verify senior journalist Away from Ukraine, the fact-checking team has been looking into claims made by Robert Jenrick in today’s Telegraph justifying his reasons for joining Reform UK. In an op ed written by the MP, Jenrick says that “Britain has been in decline for decades and we’re now in peril,“ citing issues with high tax rates, A&E wait times, and that “93 per cent of crime is going unsolved”. But is this crime figure correct? The answer is not quite." A section of the same BBC Verify article, following the first. It contains a link to criminal outcome statistics data, published by the Home Office. The link is: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2024-to-2025 The article reads as follows. "The latest criminal outcome statistics for England and Wales published by the Home Office, external show there were 5.3 million police recorded offences in the year to June 2025. Of these, only 7.6% of offences resulted in a charge or court summons, which leaves 92.4% offences recorded by police with a different outcome. But that doesn’t mean those offences went “unsolved”. A charge or a summons is just one type of outcome recorded in this data, which means that a court case has been initiated. However, there are multiple other factors recorded here too. For example, nearly 25% of cases were closed because a victim did not support further action. A total of 8.4% of the offences recorded had not yet been assigned an outcome and were ongoing while around 4% resulted in an out-of-court action, and a small number were assigned to a different agency or body."
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
markwcorbett.bsky.social
I imagine FIFA are feeling pretty foolish right now. Wait, what?
January 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM
markwcorbett.bsky.social
"The UK's first "super-university", stretching across an entire region..."

Eh? University of Wales, when founded in 1893, stretched from Cardiff to Aberystwyth and Bangor.

The University of the Highlands and Islands stretches across 10 sited, from Dunoon to Lerwick.

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BBC headline, stating that "UK's first 'super-university' to be created as two merge from 2026". It is accompanied by an image of two apparently male graduates, wearing academic robes, looking towards the domed building of Queen Mary Court at University of Greenwich's London campus. (The building was designed and built between 1696 and 1742, designed by Sir Christopher Wren as the Royal Navy Hospital. It resembles St Paul's Cathedral, another of his works. It is elaborately built in the classical style, in off-white and grey coloured portland stone. It features columns along the sides and is topped at one end by a large grey dome.) An image of the text of the first two paragraphs from the BBC report saying, "The UK's first "super-university", stretching across an entire region, is to be created through the merger of the universities of Kent and Greenwich, the BBC has learned. Under the proposed name of London and South East University Group, the single institution will have one vice-chancellor from the academic year starting in autumn 2026."
September 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
markwcorbett.bsky.social
These guys lived more life than they or anyone else had a right to.
July 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
markwcorbett.bsky.social
This is an incredibly dubious figure in the BBC's report.

"...The average price of a new EV in the UK is nearly double the cost of a typical petrol car at £22,000..."

What does "typical" mean? What average is used?

A Dacia Sandero - UK's cheapest new car - is £14k.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
July 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM