Interview · 24 Oct 2025
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg)
Video: YouTube: Bloomberg Podcasts (official channel). Retrieved 2 Oct 2026.
Some bluff & spinProvisional
673 sentences · 29 checked claims · 150 questions
What makes up this item's score
DefinitionsAccuracy64%
Checked claims that hold upadds 18.1 of 50.0
Partly supported“they had an even bleaker time in John Major's years when we unnecessarily closed pits”
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Partly supported“giving away all fish for the next 12 years”
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Partly supported“taking away banking regulation from them, from an organization that had been doing it since 1694”
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Partly supported“He just put a limit on the number of stablecoins any individual can hold.”
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Partly supported“the year after I said that the Queen met him”
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Supported“some kind of compromise could be struck as it's just been recently struck with Gaza and Israel”
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Answers questions74%
Questions answered straightadds 13.2 of 50.0
AnsweredQ: “Well, I want to start with a sense of the moment, actually, because I'm conscious that you are in the midst of a remarkable few months where your part…”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
AnsweredQ: “But also on you personally, the idea of being prime minister, are you properly adjusted to this idea? Because most people see you, this is what you're…”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
AnsweredQ: “But you've only been an MP for a year.”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
AnsweredQ: “Political experience, but not governing experience, you've never been part of.”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
AnsweredQ: “You did once say that you you did once say that you couldn't imagine having a seat around the cabinet table, that it was not something that attracted …”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
Partly answeredQ: “Yeah, but I still wonder about the kind of work that in, that is involved in delivering for a country as the prime minister. It involves sitting there…”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
Partly answeredQ: “But you haven't been going through civil service papers every day. It is different.”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
AnsweredQ: “Okay, so you're ready for it? It is the job that you want to do.”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
AnsweredQ: “But would you govern for all? Because you're not known as someone who brings people together. You're known as someone who chooses their issues, campai…”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
AnsweredQ: “So you would govern as a, as a divisive figure?”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · video
AnsweredQ: “How formative was that experience to who you are today?”
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg), 24 Oct 2025 · 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
14 emotional passages labelled, 5 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.
How the number is built
18.1 + 13.2 = 31.3Bluff = 50 × (1 − Accuracy 64%) = 18.1
Spin = 50 × (1 − Answers questions 74%) = 13.2
BS Index = Bluff + Spin = 31.3 → shown as 31
The same fixed weights for everyone. Consistency and Substance are shown alongside, never in the number.
The record
Nigel Farage on Putin, Immigration and Taking Risks | The Mishal Husain Show - YouTube. YouTube: Bloomberg Podcasts (official channel), 24 Oct 2025. Open the video · hash and fetch details