Like many people, I occasionally find myself wandering through social media's vast landscape of misinformation, nostalgia and confidently incorrect graphics. I find it strangely enjoyable. Recently I came across a particularly impressive specimen.
The image showed two weather forecasts side by side. In the first, supposedly set in 1985, a smiling weather presenter stood in front of a map showing temperatures of 32°C and 35°C, cheerfully ...
Britain’s hottest May weather on record has officially triggered an unprecedented outbreak of conspiracy theorists, arriving roughly four to six weeks earlier than the traditional peak season for absolute twaddle.
As temperatures soared to 35c in parts of the UK, social media rapidly filled with people insisting that “it’s called summer”, urging everyone to “wake up sheeple”, blaming “chemtrails”, reminiscing about how ...
After spending part of the morning reading articles, falling down the inevitable Google rabbit holes and, yes, asking AI a few awkward questions, I ended up looking into Labour Friends of Israel, usually shortened to LFI. Like most things connected to British politics and the Middle East, what starts as a straightforward bit of reading quickly turns into a maze of arguments, accusations and people aggressively demanding “context” from one ...
There is, of course, a version of events we will never hear from Keir Starmer.
It goes something like this: “We made a decision in what we thought was Britain’s interests. It blew up in our faces. Sorry about that.”
Simple. Honest. Completely impossible.
Because the truth, if it ever saw daylight, would be far less flattering and far more cynical.
Fighting Fire With… Questionable Fire
Faced with the looming return of ...
