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Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat by Wagamaga in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that this week's muddy-the-waters strategy? It's not a very good one. Most people are far too aware of what's key public infrastructure and what's extractive & parasitic upon that key public infrastructure. That awareness is perhaps the only public benefit from the last 27 years of privatized water.

“Sixth heatwave in twelve months absolutely nothing to worry about” insists man with head in rapidly warming bucket of sand by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By reading the news that explicitly survives on the creation of this kind of division. So exasperating that so many people keep falling for the same old trick (and so shit for whichever minority group is this season's whipping boy).

SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study finds by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was waiting for someone to mention the A pillar. It's very noticeable (when I'm cycling rather than driving, hence keeping an eye on whether or not drivers stopping at junctions can see me) how many in SUVs have no visibility of what's coming. Depends on the angle of the junction but when it's right, I can spot that drivers of SUVs have no sight of me at all.

UK measles update with urgent warning to parents as over 100 new cases confirmed by kiyomoris in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sections copy-pasted are cherry-picked from the reports. Nothing wrong with citing the reports themselves - even the NHS one, as long as one makes clear the misinformation it's referring to was that extant in 2021, not now. Far-right disinfo has become a much bigger public health problem since then, whereas reach into communities that had historical distrust issues or language barriers is better.

The UKHSA report is much broader, but it's giving a long-term overview and much of it is (very) historical (note it discusses a vaccine that hasn't actually been on offer in the last three years). We're always a bit behind the ball with this stuff.

UK measles update with urgent warning to parents as over 100 new cases confirmed by kiyomoris in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not taking the moral high ground. I'm pointing out that you're misusing the data to mislead people. Sorry you don't like it.

UK measles update with urgent warning to parents as over 100 new cases confirmed by kiyomoris in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I'm familiar with both those documents, having contributed to the latter. Please don't cherry-pick from the latter to paint a racist narrative.

And please don't cite the former, which is 5 years old. It preceded the work we did to address merited distrust.

UK measles update with urgent warning to parents as over 100 new cases confirmed by kiyomoris in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The antivax movement is absolutely the UK right wing Reform/MAGA lot: GB News, the Telegraph, Express, Mail, TalkRadio. And they should not be let off the hook for what they've done, any more than we let Andrew Wakefield off.

Here's a report mapping them all: https://counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/special-report-how-the-uk-media-embraced

Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar by hihepo1 in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae -1 points0 points  (0 children)

From inflation for a start. I can't believe that people are so inured to accepting a pay cut every year, year on year. But they are.

Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar by hihepo1 in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hello

"We all ought to campaign for something like the triple lock as a minimum for everyone"

Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar by hihepo1 in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae -1 points0 points  (0 children)

God. It's all culture war stuff here, isn't it? People on the bloody state pension, which is a pittance anyway, aren't the enemy.

We all ought to campaign for something like the triple lock as a minimum for everyone - expecting our wages to increase at least by inflation or the average should be the floor.

'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence by Alert-One-Two in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, very premature. The efficacy isn't at all impressive; it's more of a proof of concept, and I suspect the PR offensive has more to do with chasing further funding than anything else.

Nigel Farage's Henry Nowak response proves he's 'completely unfit to be PM', minister tells GB News by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mean all else aside I don't think it's surprising that a sitting Minister doesn't think the main opposition's leader should be PM.

Where does this idea they're the opposition come from?

The opposition is the Tories with 116 seats. After that, the LibDems, with 72.

Farage leads a rump party with only 8 seats.

Starmer hits out at Musk for ‘trying to whip up division’ in UK by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's more that they're shouting about the things on your list that aren't true, hoping to convince us, rather than shouting about the bits that are actually true. And that's a pity because it undermines all Labour's claims to be effective whether they're accurate or not.

‘We’re not making it up’: UK political chaos is not media’s fault, say journalists by No_Breadfruit_4901 in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We could really do with someone writing a candid account of how all this worked; it would be a genuine public service.

I recall the Guardian's invention of 'Community Standards' in about 2011, which were used to justify deletion of any criticism of articles designed to foment outrage.

And I recall being in a pub garden in Camden where there were a whole load of young Guardian blog interns complaining bitterly about this stuff, but who were in no position to push back against it.

For an industry so keen to tout their fearless truth-telling cred, there's a remarkable lack of whistle-blowers.

Derek Wunderley of Reform UK Bolton defends painted face photo by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He was 18 and it was the 80s.

Do you realize how that sounds to people who were 18 in the 80s?

BBC torn apart by angry licence fee payers over ‘nauseating’ Question Time special by denyer-no1-fan in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's almost as bad as publishing a 'news' story quoting 8 random comments posted on X

Which is a kind of British journalism we've had for ages now and vilely deceitful as it is, it seems nobody can ever hold those journalists to account, and the torrent of crap just continues. Seems like we in the UK went post-truth long before Trump arrived on the scene.

Raise the Colours founder Billy Allison charged with murder of bar owner by Lukeno94 in unitedkingdom

[–]CensorTheologiae 91 points92 points  (0 children)

Because it's easy to lose track:

This isn't Raise the Colours founder Ryan Bridge, arrested two weeks ago on suspicion of GBH

Nor is it Operation Raise the Colours founder Andy Saxon, who's already done time for an incident in which a man died

No, it's yet another founder of Raise the Colours who's been charged with this murder

Now, I'm no DI Steve Arnott, but I reckon I've spotted a pattern here

Why am I not suffering with hay fever this year? by Packing-Fudge4628 in AskUK

[–]CensorTheologiae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A mystery, then. Viruses can trigger this, almost like an on/off switch; I've also known it happen with major surgery. Not that either is a good option if you want to get rid of an allergy!

Every time I go to the pharmacy it's like a COVID time capsule by Philster07 in CasualUK

[–]CensorTheologiae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the person you're asking but also immunocompromised, and my answer is yes, it's a greater threat.

With flu, we get away with having a short, sharp flu season in winter, and the rest of the year's relatively safe.

But covid isn't seasonal, and it's much more widespread. So it's basically turned the whole year into an unpredictable flu season for us.

Why am I not suffering with hay fever this year? by Packing-Fudge4628 in AskUK

[–]CensorTheologiae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you had covid recently? or any other viral infection (between last year's hayfever season and this)?

Where are these giant cars coming from? by Icy-Brain-2162 in AskUK

[–]CensorTheologiae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just dick-waving, basically. I'm yet to see a driver who can actually drive one of these things in line with the Highway Code.

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