#NEWS

While the UK faces recession, the children's homes and foster care company CareTech today announced a surge in profits and a bumper payout to shareholders https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/CTH/annual-financial-report/1477
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It’s my privilege to represent 4 families whose lives were turned upside down by the revelations that undercover police officers appropriated the identities of their deceased relatives #spycops https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec
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There has been a surge of behavioral research on misinformation & "fake news". To synthesize things, @DG_Rand & I wrote a systematic review: https://psyarxiv.com/ar96c We take a cognitive/social psych perspective, but
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Current Scottish Tory electoral strategy:- Make Scotland great again- Drain the swamp- Attack broadcast media- Undermine confidence in postal voting- Deny democracy Have I missed anything else they’ve borrowed from
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Scientist, noting plot point in every disaster movie and also, realityhttps://twitter.com/xamm0x/status/1360785237328945154 Addendum: The world listened to scientists in the 1980s, when the concentration of CFCs in the atmosphere threatened
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It only took 65 years, but the world's pre-eminent data source for historical energy consumption has a new unit: Exajoules, not million tonnes of oil equivalent. A small thing, and
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My colleague Patricia Burch and I worked with @Ed4Excellence on a new survey of 500 LA teachers, out today. Full results are here, but here's a short thread with some
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Ottawa should not provide Alberta field hospitals. No way. There are several reasons ... in this thread.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-field-hospitals-red-cross-1.5825439 First, the COVID mess is Alberta’s own making, afte
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Stop writing stories about “normal” characters learning to love marginalised kids. Stop buying them. Stop supporting them. And please stop nominating them for awards. It’s offensive to constantly see narratives
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In 2015 UK M15 intelligence had warned against 'fruitless' probe of Muslim Brotherhood in the UK.The Brotherhood is classified as a terrorist organisation by the UAE. https://shar.es/ao73oY  via @MiddleEastEye Throughout
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I keep coming back to this tale of two cities: New York and Madrid both had terrible starts to the pandemic, both brought it under control, but then Madrid lost
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Trump sought options from his advisors to bomb #Iran LAST WEEK. He destroyed diplomatic channels with Iran to pursue a failed regime-change policy. Now he’s more desperate than ever &
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Journalists to be: ignore this advice. There are many great opportunities in journalism where you can report accurately what is happening in under-covered communities and do great work and impact
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Data watchdog rejects EU criticism over Max Schrems complaints > So, ⁦@DPCIreland⁩ criticised for not using powers it didn’t have and for taking a slow, expensive, but necessary step to
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Small retailers, read this: More than 400 COVID-19 cases at Amazon warehouses in Ontario amid concern over industrial spread of virushttps://nationalpost.com/news/more-than-400-covid-19-cases-at-amazon-warehouses-in-ontario-amid-concern-abo
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(VIDEO) In this video thread, I'll post videos of Barr's Army illegally threatening and attacking US citizens without any authority, without identifying itself, and under "counterterrorism" claims FBI data has
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