BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[PurplePenguin]

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]

No. That's the award winning data journalist.

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

 

[C R]

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

ITYM that the phrase was a dog whistle.

 

[briantrumpet]

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]

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

 

[Pblakeney]

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

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Then again, Hitchens is a daffodil.

 

[briantrumpet]

Then again, Hitchens is a daffodil.

Ooh, steady on now, old chap. There's no need for such colourful language.

 

[AndyRM]

Ooh, steady on now, old chap. There's no need for such colourful language.

Flowery, Shirley?

 

[briantrumpet]

Flowery, Shirley?

Fair point, blossom.

 

[briantrumpet]

A thoroughly dispiriting read. Ignore the fact that it's the Graun: John Harris has a habit of getting under the skin of human problems, and writing humanely about them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/19/britain-housing-crisis-social-rent-liverpool

Liverpool has long been credited with the so-called “scouse exceptionalism” that supposedly makes its people less prone to belligerent expressions of national identity and Little Englandism. But in many neighbourhoods, there are now streets festooned with union flags and St George’s flags. In the midst of what I heard about its housing shortage, they began to look like a desperate, distorted show of a fear laced with defiance, and proof of an unshakable political fact: that if you make people feel scared about something as basic as the roof over their heads, they will sooner or later start to behave in very unsettling ways.