BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

PurplePenguin · 2025-10-19T14:48:16+0100

First Aspect said:
Is Dan Niedle the guy who always messes with the axes on graphs to exaggerate and misrepresent?

No. That's the award winning data journalist.

First Aspect · 2025-10-19T14:50:55+0100

PurplePenguin said:
No. That's the award winning data journalist.

Oh yes, who must be right all the time because he's award winning.

C R · 2025-10-19T14:57:07+0100

briantrumpet said:
Yes indeed, but there is almost plausible deniability about the phrase.

ITYM that the phrase was a dog whistle.

briantrumpet · 2025-10-19T15:09:07+0100

PurplePenguin said:
No. That's the award winning data journalist.

I almost referred FA to you as the official bad-graph monitor, as I'd knew you'd be on the case.

briantrumpet · 2025-10-19T17:52:20+0100

When Thatcher is too left wing for *real* Tories, you know something is amiss...