If you are a journalist or news outlet reporting on borders & asylum in Ireland right now, please ensure that a) you have the basic statistics correct and b) that you are not being used as a conduit for misinformation. Double check your source data, no matter where it comes from.

The Green Party has 800 councillors, Reform has 2, this means that their coverage on the BBC should be about 400x more.

Instead Nigel Farage and Richard Tice have about 400x more coverage @bbc is an embarrassment.

Excellent overview & lessons on how to keep a handle on what’s going on for future pandemics from the amazing Our World in Data. Interesting that countries like Malaysia, Peru, Chile, Italy did such good jobs, others look inept. It can be done! ourworldindata.org/key-lessons-fr…

So they were students after all. And it was a bike lock. And no Jewish student was beaten unconscious. And no one was stabbed in the eye. And 'counter-protesters' were the violent ones.

Seriously, has a single narrative actually held up to even the most cursory scrutiny?

Politics UK BBC News (UK) Labour are on the wrong side of the Gaza argument, the wrong side of the transgender argument, the wrong side of the Rwanda argument...

Maybe they should start thinking about their core values a bit more?

An illustration of how to tell the Tories to fuck off without actually swearing:

We live in a supposedly free country where journalists should not just disappear, let alone journalists as great as ⁦Sangita Myska⁩. Put her back on air now, ⁦⁦LBC⁩. change.org/p/reinstate-sa…

maniagnosis Yonaguni reminds me of the montana sage wall hoax, where there’s plenty of other geology in the immediate area showing long “walls” of cracked & eroded granite, but which are clearly natural. Some cracks only extend part way down walls, so not separate shaped masonry stones.

So much respect for these students 🙌 Every decent person around the world stands with you, keep pushing, you're doing amazing 🇵🇸💚

Metropolitan Police What's wrong with these people? They need to integrate and adopt British values if they want to live in this country.

But it funds no science, provides no investment into UK regions, helps no farmers, supports no rare disease networks or pharmacovigilance structures, provides no customs efficiency, opens no borderless Single Market, and provides no cost-sharing on agencies securing our citizens’…

Natasha Clark If people could get in to see a doctor or get hospital appointments without waiting years, maybe they wouldn't be as ill?

Mark 🌍 Hayward Prof Alice Roberts💙 Giant Socialist Weasel I think it was Carl Sagan who said that it pays to be open minded but not so open that your brains fell out.

38 trillion dollars in damages each year: World economy already committed to income reduction of 19 % due to climate change. 👉New PIK paper in nature by Maximilian Kotz , Leonie Wenz , Prof Anders Levermann, PhD, Image: Kotz et al., Nature pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Truly, abominably shameful

Wow, really sinister and scary on multiple levels. How to ruin a good solid American company by chasing only share prices…
I’ll be checking what planes I fly on from now on.

50,000 confirmed and verified Russian fatalities in Ukraine is more than Russia/Soviet Union lost in all post-1945 wars combined.

Moreover, as the investigators admit, their count covers nearly 50% of the real military death toll, which, therefore, may be over 100,000 dead (!).…

Long read, very thorough& important

I did not realise that Namibian President Hage Geingob made this scathing public indictment of Germany's support of Israel's Palestinian genocide just a week after he announced his terminal illness and less than a month before his death. What a legacy. What a Mensch.

Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza

On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most…