Ella Baron @EBaronCartoons on the #manchesterterrorattack#synagogeattack @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
This chart (from the Guardian) seems somewhat misleading. There are around 13x more Muslims than Jews in England and Wales. So these numbers represent a >10x higher rate of offences against Jews; an astonishing >1 in 100 having suffered a religiously motivated hate crime last year.
First politically hopeful day in a while: Starmer starting to call out corrosive xenophobia and racism for what they are; at least one judge absolutely incinerating attempts to suppress free speech in the US; and their military visibly dismissing Hegseth as a confused, drunken embarrassment.
Horrible case. Meadow squared a 1 in 8,500 chance of a cot-death, and told a jury there was a 1 in 73m chance of two in the same family, so Sally Clark must have murdered her own children. She served three years, won an appeal, came out a shattered shell of herself, and drank herself to death.
In general, finding an editorial in the Lancet, dripping with arrogance and defending some harrumphing pillar (Meadow, Wakefield, PACE, Macchiarini) is a strong indicator that they are about to withdraw the paper/resign in disgrace/be struck off.
Consistently on the very worst side of everything. Published bullshit articles defending Roy Meadow (paediatrician who falsely secured convictions of mothers for killing their children because he - and they - can't understand conditional probability).
Fun to read the: "Gosh, how unfortunate that there were all these lies, that ten of the original authors have written a withdrawal notice and admitted there's no evidence for a link, but I am the editor of the Lancet and am never wrong" 2004 article now. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I thought of the terrible rebooted Star Trek "Into Darkness", where an early plot point is a (written) rule if there's a terrorist attack of a certain kind, then the entire Starfleet command structure must meet in a particular room in San Francisco, so the villain can attack it with a helicopter.
As someone who sometimes feels like the world is moving bewilderingly fast, there’s nothing like going to this page to make me feel that there are at least some unchangeable constants out there. www.theguardian.com/index/contri...
Both of course are down to declining MMR rates, but the drivers behind these appear somewhat different. Britain’s rates are strongly associated with ethnicity and largely independent of political affiliation. US vice versa, though there are strong elements of access in both countries.
