The earth is rounder than some people had suggested.

Asda described its £2bn takeover of petrol stations from its owners as “leverage neutral”

But that’s because they loaded the supermarket with liabilities that do not count towards headline debt figures, such as borrowing against ground rent from Macquarie
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How a projection gets turned into a prediction.

Out now on Virological Posts: preliminary report on the genomic epidemiology of H5N1 sequences in cattle. This complements the preprint Dept. of Agriculture put out yesterday.

There was a lot of data to work with, so it's split in two parts 👇🏼
virological.org/t/preliminary-…
virological.org/t/preliminary-…

They found a (Oxford University Press) book at a university.

🚨 #BREAKING

Pandemic experts express concern over avian influenza spread to humans

📌 Dr Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist at the WHO, said that the virus has an extremely high mortality rate among humans already infected with it.

I can’t tell you how happy this has made me.

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

See also the Voter ID impact assessment.

legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2022/105/…

The NHS is getting community noted.

One thing I’ve not been able to write about, because of sheer time poverty (hi, Co-Op Live, seriously, just cancel everything and start again) is the spillover from galloway’s win in Rochdale. It’s having a ripple effect through local politics here, including in Manchester

A cross examination.

This has all gone very meta: Radio 4 on Radio 1 on Radio 4. 🤯

BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 4 Greg James Caroline Nicholls

I mean, Boris *may* have forgotten his voter ID, but everyone's talking about him now, aren't they.

What.

Another election, another half hour hunt for my wedding certificate because my acceptable ID isn't in the same name as my voter registration, thanks everyone

Jarnail Singh is on tomorrow. Everyone at the inquiry expecting it to be box office. 🍿

'I do not recall' - Post Office Inquiry.