It is quite amusing to me how so many people don’t understand scale .
You would have to have a fleet of around 100k trucks running 24/7 down a road twice the size of the M25
Volumes of oil transitioning this strait are around 20 million barrels a day.
Roughly 70% world trade volume
An article “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits” (March 17, 2025) referred to the number of “foreign nationals” receiving benefits, and gave the rate of benefit claims for various nationalities. In fact, the particular DWP data on which the article was based recorded the nationality of claimants when registering for a National Insurance number, rather than the nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, so that some claimants might have since acquired UK citizenship, and would not be foreign nationals at the time they were claiming benefits. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation. Advertisement
Fully *one year later*, the Telegraph has been forced (by @ipso.co.uk) to admit that it was lying about foreign nationals claiming benefits.
We only have about 25 (free!) tickets left for our @cambridgefestival.bsky.social discussion on 18 March: Have we lost the ability to debate immigration – and what can education do about it?
If you would like to join us, please sign up soon at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-we-lo...
A new blog from the Enhancing the Impartiality of News project takes a look at who appeared on Question Time throughout 2025 & what those guest choices reveal about how the programme interprets political balance.
🔗 bit.ly/4jLeYY2
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#BBC #QuestionTime #impartiality #impartialityproject
Ahh nothing to see here but Dominic Cummings, spouting pure Putin/Kremlin propaganda, while wishing the death of British citizens.
Brexit making more sense now?
Sad news from Bristol Zoo Project. Rest in peace, Jock.
bristolzoo.org.uk/news/remembe...
Pleased to announce that
The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull,
29th Prime Minister of Australia,
will offer a keynote discussion about
“the effects of concentrated media ownership on democracy,”
at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.
www.malcolmturnbull.com.au
Pleased to announce that a keynote speaker for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit is 2001 Nobel Economist, Prof Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Prof Stiglitz will discuss systemic economic risks from disinformation and from platforms that amplify or monetize disinformation.
business.columbia.edu/stiglitz
What happens when you teach sixth formers to teach? Charle Pettit, an affiliated lecturer on the Cambridge PGCE, decided to find out with students at his school, and early results suggest that a remarkable form of self-sustaining learning emerged.
content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/self...
The number of students studying for British degrees overseas has risen sharply over the past decade. This new study suggests the expansion is exporting not just British degrees, but the hierarchies of Britain’s highly stratified higher education system.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A University of Cambridge spin-out has developed what it says is the UK’s first automated free-speech compliance system for universities, amid concerns that institutions are struggling to interpret new freedom of speech rules.
content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/camb...
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
Billionaires couldn’t care less about immigration really. What they care about is getting people riled up about immigration so as they’ll vote for the far right who’ll implement an agenda that protects their wealth
Did our feral political press pack call time on Starmer prematurely? Accusations are flying . markurban.substack.com/p/did-the-lo...
Lineup for day 2 of the Cambridge Disinformation Summit.
Useful updates and wonderful music thank you.
I am really tired of our media not putting as much effort into investigating the wider issues like: why is Starmer the fall guy for the Epstein files and what was Peter Thiel and James Orr discussing with a specially invited audience in a closed meeting in Cambridge last week.
I joined @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social to discuss my work and the work of Bellingcat, why I don't like Seymour Hersh, and getting verified information out quickly on the ICE shootings.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...
She fell off a bridge after being scared by a truck.
The last 2 months have been hard with her confidence shot. But things have changed a lot. Her tail is wagging, she is coming alive again and she has even found love.
Bridget
News from the ‘multiverse’ . Varsity the student paper at Cambridge University reported that James Orr hosted Peter Thiel last week. Orr glowed about a ‘stunningly original and erudite series of lectures. Thiel is the walking antidote to the modern multiversity. The highlight of our academic year.”
If you need some proof there is good in the world this is it. Prepare to smile
niallharbison.substack.com/p/people-jus...
We are deeply grateful to everyone who helps Ukrainians survive this brutal winter. We are not alone in this horror.
Marat from Kazakhstan has opened up a yurt with heating for the residents of Desniansky district in Kyiv, hit very hard by Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
In “Reading Russia Weekend Extra”: news about Russia’s economy, an interview with a newspaper chief, plus details of our film for BBC Panorama: ‘Our Man In Moscow’ is on BBC One
at 8pm on Feb 2nd. Also available on BBC iPlayer.
Reform politician Matthew Goodwin tells the Sunday Times that he would "rather shoot myself in the head" than be at dinner with Nick Robinson and Mary Beard, and the last thing the ex-acadenuc would ever have wanted would be to be a Professor at some Oxford college "backwater with zero influence"
The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will start a new webinar series soon.
The first topic on the agenda will be “Cognitive Hybrid Warfare.”
More information about how and when to tune in is coming soon.
Please share. 💔
"In 2013, Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey earned the Victoria Cross for heroic actions in Helmand, Afghanistan. During a Taliban ambush, he repeatedly braved heavy machine-gun fire to provide first aid to a wounded US Marine and single-handedly relocated two machine guns across 200m of exposed terrain"
More evidence of Kremlin and Russian papers gloating. This from BBC's @bbcstever.bsky.social in 🇷🇺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Last night, RF forces conducted a large-scale multi-modal aerial strike focusing primarily on the #Kyiv, #Odesa and #KryvyiRih. Weapons used:
- 339 C-UAVs
- 1 "Zircon" AShM
- 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles (Tu-95MS)
- 18 Iskander-M ballistic missiles
Source: TG "StrategicaviationT"
#OSINT
For those asking for more practical steps, here's some of the tools and platforms we use at Bellingcat. The AutoArchiver allows online media to be collected and automatically archived, allowing centralised collection of sources
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
