“From child poverty to death by austerity, there’s been an epidemic of terrible economic predictions”, argues IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon.

Writing for the Daily Telegraph, Christopher points out the growing prevalence of what he calls “political factoids”, including the claim that austerity has killed 120,000 people, which cannot be called a lie because it is impossible to disprove, but it would be a lie to call it a fact because it cannot be proven.

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