Fact-checking & Accountability

This page sets out how we check our facts and stay accountable for what we publish. The short version: we correct facts, not opinions — and a named editor is responsible for every piece.

Right of reply

Before publishing a review, we share any significant concerns with the venue. This is standard press ethics — right of reply is about accuracy, not approval.

If a factual error is spotted — a wrong price, a dish that's no longer on the menu, a name misspelled — we correct it. What we don't do is change our opinion. A venue can tell us the steak was supposed to be cooked that way. We'll note it. We won't pretend we enjoyed it.

We correct facts. We don't change opinions.

Sourcing, quotes and links

When we point you to an official source — a council page, a bus company's timetable, National Rail, or similar — we link it, not just name it. A useful resource is only useful if you can actually get to it.

The same goes for other people's journalism. If another outlet broke a story first, or landed the interview we're drawing on, we say so and credit them in the text. Quotes we didn't gather ourselves are attributed to where they came from, not passed off as our own.

If it's someone else's work, we say whose it is.

How we use AI

We use AI tools to help research and draft some articles. Every piece is reviewed, fact-checked, and published by a named editor who is accountable for it. We do not publish AI-written content unread, and we never invent contributors or bylines.

The judgment is always human: what we cover, what we recommend, and what we say about it. AI helps us do the legwork, not the thinking.

Some illustrations on the site are AI-generated — decorative and conceptual artwork. They are always obviously illustrations, never photorealistic, and never passed off as a real photo. We never fake a photograph of a real venue, a real person, or a news event. Photos of real places and real people are real photos.

The full policy

This is part of our wider editorial standards. Read the full policy, or see how to report a correction.