ROSS CLARK: The 4,000 deaths ‘fact’ that made gloomy experts squabble like schoolboys

Faced with a barrage of questions about the dubious graphs they wheeled out during Saturday night’s Halloween Horror press conference, Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty spent much of yesterday’s Commons select committee hearing shifting in their seats. But there was one question in particular that got Sir Gloom and Professor Doom extremely hot … Read more

Teaching children that ‘white privilege’ is a fact is ILLEGAL warns equalities minister 

Schools that teach children that white privilege is an uncontested fact are in breach of the law, the women and equalities minister has warned. Speaking in the Commons debate on Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch said that teaching pupils about ‘white privilege and their inherited racial guilt’ would see a ‘dangerous trend in race relations’.  The Conservative … Read more

Teaching children that ‘white privilege’ is a fact is ILLEGAL warns equalities minister 

Schools that teach pupils that white privilege is an uncontested fact are in breach of the law, the women and equalities minister has warned. Speaking in the Commons debate on Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch said that teaching pupils about ‘white privilege and their inherited racial guilt’ would see a ‘dangerous trend in race relations’.  The Conservative … Read more

Eddie Van Halen blamed his tongue cancer on the fact that he held metal guitar picks in his mouth

Eddie Van Halen, the legendary lead guitarist for the band Van Halen, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 65 from throat cancer.  The rock star, who had been battling the disease for at least the last five years, passed away at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California. This was not the … Read more

YouTube expands its fact checking feature to the UK 

YouTube has started displaying fact-check information panels to users in the UK, in an attempt to stop the spread of misinformation on the video platform. UK users will start seeing the independent, fact-checked information from third-party organisations on the Google-owned platform from Thursday. Panels will appear above search results, offering ‘more context’ and links to … Read more

How to switch career at any age – in fact being older can be a real advantage

Age is no barrier to striking out on new employment paths, says career coach Joanna Booty of Metier Career Growth It’s a worrying time for many of us work-wise – but it could be the cue to strike out on a new career path. What’s more, discovers Eimear O’Hagan, being older can be a real … Read more

Twitter ‘fact checks’ two-month-old tweets by China as Trump threatens web giants with bias probes

Twitter has ‘fact-checked’ two tweets by China after it caused a political storm in the US by flagging two of Donald Trump’s tweets for accuracy – sparking fury from the president and accusations of bias. The social media giant added exclamation point warnings to tweets by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman accusing the US of starting … Read more

Head of Twitter’s fact checking has a history of anti-Trump tweets

The head of Twitter’s fact-checking team has previously tweeted that the Trump administration are Nazis, compared adviser Kellyanne Conway to Joseph Goebbels and said fly over states are racist. The previous tweets from Yoel Roth, whose official title at Twitter is head of Site Integrity, emerged after the social media giant put a fact-checking warning on two … Read more

Emily Maitlis states as fact that Dominic Cummings ‘broke the rules’

Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has been accused of breaking BBC impartiality rules after accusing Boris Johnson of ‘blind loyalty’ in the Dominic Cummings row. The 49-year-old host stated as fact that the Prime Minister’s adviser ‘broke the rules’ by taking a 260-mile trip from London to County Durham with his family in March. The issue … Read more

Emily Maitlis states as fact that Dominic Cummings ‘broke the rules’

Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has been accused of breaking BBC impartiality rules after accusing Boris Johnson of ‘blind loyalty’ in the Dominic Cummings row. The 49-year-old host stated as fact that the Prime Minister’s adviser ‘broke the rules’ by taking a 260-mile trip from London to County Durham with his family in March. The issue … Read more