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 ...
Thanks to the recent national outbreak of people loudly banging on about “heritage,” “traditional values,” and “our proud Christian roots” usually while standing in a queue for an Indian meal or shouting abuse at a Deliveroo cyclist, I found myself wondering whether I should probably learn something about my own surname.
Not because I’ve suddenly become deeply spiritual or patriotic, obviously. I simply realised that if ...
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 ...
