Interview · 29 Jul 2026
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post
Video: YouTube: BBC Politics (official channel). Retrieved 6 Oct 2026.
Some bluff & spinProvisional
109 sentences · 12 checked claims · 29 questions
What makes up this item's score
DefinitionsAccuracy75%
Checked claims that hold upadds 12.5 of 50.0
Supported“This was not my post. It was a collaboration from a photographer. It had 20 images”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · ITV News · The Daily Britain
Supported“As soon as I was aware of what happened, I unaccepted it and took it down.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · ITV News · ITV News
Partly supported“in May I experienced lots of threats, including today, by the way I experienced a death threat but in May a Nazi who was near a reform banner threw a salute at me and was arrested. No one ever spoke about it. No one ever reported it.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · AOL UK (news agency copy) · The Canary
Partly supported“[Zia Yusuf] said if I wasn't arrested by this time tomorrow then it's open season on all MPs.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · Zia Yusuf on X · LBC
Partly supported“Nigel Farage then took it cropped it so it made it look like I posted it”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · ITV News · The Daily Britain
Partly supported“this whole conversation has been seen more because Nigel Farage, [Zia Yusuf], and I think Richard Tice posted it.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · ITV News · The Daily Britain
Supported“Nigel Farage put out a video that talked about cold, pure rage, and then we saw a riot.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · Channel 4 News
Supported“The first mistake with the Golders Green attack was that I shared in haste and I should have gone to the Met Commissioner. That's why I apologized.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · Jewish News
Partly supported“If we brought in rent controls, we could save the average UK household up to £2,400 a year and save government £2 billion a year.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · Property118
Supported“It makes no sense that if someone is ill with cancer, they get free health care, as they should, but if they have dementia, they don't.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · The King's Fund
Partly supported“In the last 3 years, in three regions of the UK, because of the outsourcing of social care, private providers have made up to 240 million pounds.”
Interview, 29 Jul 2026 · LocalGov
Answers questions69%
Questions answered straightadds 15.5 of 50.0
AnsweredQ: “Have the police been in touch yet?”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Would you expect them to be? Do you expect them to be?”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Okay. Did you not read the post properly then?”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Why not?”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “So, so let's I mean let's just look at this picture then. Any second now, this you did not see the T-shirt with the drawing of the guillotine with the…”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “Come on. Any leader of a political party in this country who shares a post like that is going to have reports and stories and conversations about them…”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “But you are also complaining about it being reported.”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Well, let me let me put this to you. Nigel Farage says he has had 597 death threats since February. Reform UK's Zayna Yusuf said the post was inciteme…”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
Partly answeredQ: “you you've also told me that you accept as a leader of a political party responsibility for what you share on social media. And you have also said thi…”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Okay. Do you want to apologize then or not?”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
DodgedQ: “Okay, there's a number of things to unpack there. First of all, you're saying you take responsibility for it and it was a mistake, and yet you won't a…”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
DodgedQ: “no, no, you keep taking the conversation on. I I If If you're accepting it's a mistake”
BBC Newsnight interview with Victoria Derbyshire: the 'Nigel' t-shirt post, 29 Jul 2026 · video
ConsistencyNot checked
No unacknowledged contradictionsshown, not in the score
Contradiction checks start once more of the record is in. Until then this measure is left out, not counted as perfect.
SubstanceNot enough data
Emotion that comes with substanceshown, not in the score
3 emotional passages labelled, 1 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.
How the number is built
12.5 + 15.5 = 28.0Bluff = 50 × (1 − Accuracy 75%) = 12.5
Spin = 50 × (1 − Answers questions 69%) = 15.5
BS Index = Bluff + Spin = 28.0 → shown as 28
The same fixed weights for everyone. Consistency and Substance are shown alongside, never in the number.
The record
"A mistake" | Zack Polanski responds to ‘Nigel’ t-shirt row after being reported to police by Reform - YouTube. YouTube: BBC Politics (official channel), 29 Jul 2026. Open the video · hash and fetch details