Here are this month’s crazy headlines. 1-5 Crazy Headlines 1. Amazon’s mental health kiosk mocked on social media as a ‘Despair Closet’. – Source 2. Casey Anthony ‘keeps getting drinks thrown in her face’ at Florida bar, police say. – Source 3. Boris Johnson considered being injected with COVID-19 on live TV: ex-adviser. – Source…… Read More »
The people of Bolton have again risen to this challenge. The number of vaccinations happening in Bolton right now is phenomenal. Tens of thousands every single day. Matt Hancock, 27 May 2021. Health secretary Matt Hancock claimed in the House of Commons on Thursday that “tens of thousands” of vaccinations were being administered in Bolton… Read More »
It’s been claimed that Luc Montagnier, a Nobel Laureate, has said there is no chance of survival for people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine. Posts sharing this text also claim that all vaccinated people will die within two years. Professor Montagnier, who led the team that first identified HIV, has expressed views against the… Read More »
A screenshot of a tweet, posted on Instagram, by The Stone Roses’ lead singer Ian Brown claims that all Japanese citizens vaccinated for Covid-19 are not permitted to give blood. It says: “If the jabs are so safe why has Japan stopped anybody who has had one from giving blood?” This appears to be based… Read More »
A widely shared video on Facebook makes a number of claims about vaccines which are wrong or need more context. This article does not discuss all of them, but here are a few of the biggest claims made in the video. “Up until now people who were undergoing chemo, not only were they told they… Read More »
We have the worst death toll in Europe. Keir Starmer, 27 May 2021. Boris Johnson was too slow to introduce not one but three lockdowns, which left us with the worst death toll in Europe. Angela Rayner, 25 May 2021. Labour’s leader, Sir Keir Starmer, and deputy leader, Angela Rayner, have both said on Twitter… Read More »
Often the article doesn’t actually say what the headline promised. We call this an ‘edline’. It isn’t easy for journalists to reduce an article to a headline of just a few words. Often something important goes missing, or they end up saying something else by mistake—as Yorkshire Live did recently when announcing a list of… Read More »
Here are this week’s shower thoughts. 1-5 Shower Thoughts 1. Rappers just do that thing where you replay an argument in your head to make yourself sound cooler. 2. The fast and furious movie saga is the high-budget version of the “and then and then and then” stories children tell. 3. Once you finish school…… Read More »
