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You're getting too excited about the vaccine news. Want to avoid the crashing disappointment in a few weeks' time when reality hits? Avoid the sugar rush of junk news now.

It is a very, very bad doc if you want to understand Brexit/Trump or what’s really going on with social media, microtargeting, etc.It basically relies on taking slide decks from

The thing I still cannot remotely understand is why Excel was anywhere near the UK testing system in the first place. It's spreadsheet software, not database software – it should

Exclusive: Dominic Cummings is facing questions over a potential conflict of interest as a @TBIJ and @Guardian investigation reveals he worked as a paid consultant to Babylon Health.https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-10-11/c

A lack of humanity for people fleeing war, you say?“A group of 218 Kenyan tea plantation workers have filed a complaint with the UN against Unilever” (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/aug/01/kenyan-tea-workers-file-un

Twitter’s failure to suspend @WileyCEO is actually now massively fucking offensive in itself. It’s absolutely shameful and people who work there should be speaking out at this point. This isn’t

First tantalising redaction of the #RussiaReport: Big #RussiaReport finding – we need new laws "to tackle espionage, the illicit financial dealings of the Russian elite and the ‘enablers’ who support

Thread (sorry): Real investigative journalism is hard. It takes lots of time, skill and money, and the reports it produces are often complex and take some effort to read.Stories come

The government may wish to think very VERY hard if it really wants to have “sources” briefing claiming it was actually within the rules for Cummings to do what he

A short thread on one of many, many weird things Coronavirus is doing to our supply chains – and so to how we live. For farmers, one of the big

Only 41% of people showed a logarithmic graph on COVID-19 deaths could correctly answer "a basic question" about it.84% of respondents shown the same data on a linear graph were

"STAY ALERT" for a virus which – like all other viruses – can't be seen unless you have an electron microscope handy must be among the stupidest government slogans ever