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A short thread about Retweeting (RT), Quote Tweeting (QT), replying etc. Very short. Really. They’re all useful tools, but in different ways. Twitter have taken the decision to try to

A short thread about Boris Johnson, the media, and Jeremy Corbyn. Boris Johnson won the election. Lots of reasons why - but one that keeps getting suggested is that it

A short free press anecdote, that might be apocryphal but I got from a source that is usually impeccable. During the Cold War, a Soviet delegation went to visit the

On ‘child poverty’ - and I expect to get attacked for this. The focus on *child* poverty is partly a mask for something not nearly so pleasant. Children are ‘innocent’,

Contact tracing again. Either Jenny Harries (and Jonathan Van-Tam before her) have been woefully poorly briefed, or there really is no kind of verification system built into the system.Either of

A quick and dirty thread on the app and test and track. First, remember that the test and track system is *not* the app, and the app is *not* the

On this blog edit story, let’s be clear what Cummings is trying to do: distance himself from the herd immunity plan.The claim that he was specifically and explicitly warning about

A brief thread on the Nadine Dorries/Maria Caulfield/Lucy Allen story today. Not the defamation aspects - make no mistake, the do really matter - but the ‘fake news’ aspects. This

As a matter of interest, deleting a tweet - or even deleting your account - does not mean any defamation didn’t happen. It’s often a good idea, but the action

I love that everyone is attacking the person who works at Oxford Brookes university for not working at the real Oxford hasn’t checked that she *also* teaches at the real

A few replies to my tweet about @MattHancock’s ‘upbeat’ attitude at yesterday’s press briefing have said ‘but people need hope’. Yes, they do. But how do they get hope? (Short

In her excellent speech @maitlis is quite right - not just the awfulness of the ‘fighting’ metaphor but that #COVIDー19 doesn’t hit people equally, but disproportionately the poor - but