Economics teaches that, when the stock of capital is rising faster than the workforce as has demonstrably been the case in industrial countries since the second world war the return of each additional unit of capital should fall over time.
This strategy has demonstrably failed, as the UK economy looks to have gone back into recession, public borrowing is on the rise, business and consumer confidence and spending have collapsed and unemployment is rising inexorably.
Claims that polar bear numbers are actually rising are false: At least eight of the world's 19 polar bear subpopulations are declining and just one is demonstrably increasing (due to the curtailment of severe overhunting levels), according to a 2009 report by the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group.
His statement that "there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street... we rise or fall together as one nation" is demonstrably false.
I rise in inverse proportion to consumer confidence, which is demonstrably plummeting.
Its price has risen ten-fold over the past five years — faster than many demonstrably better wines — but Xie says that's only because Chinese consumers are focused on the label, not the quality.
Indeed, from California, where some 82percentt of native freshwater fish are facing extinction as water temperatures rise, to China, where human pollution and industrial activity has already rendered the Baiji dolphin functionally extinct, the disappearance of animals large and small is demonstrably accelerating.
The US and other Western governments have yet to explain why their "war on terror" has so demonstrably failed with the rise of Isis, but tolerance of Saudi complicity in 9/11 will surely be part of the answer.
That claim is demonstrably false and the 8.2% price rise announced on Thursday by SSE provides the perfect example.
In a country where government corruption and incompetence is perceived to be on the rise, this is the one ministry that has demonstrably moved the other way.
