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Political & Economic Media Commentator | Previously Head of Health & Economic stats @ONS | Award-winning statistician

Dec 9, 2021, 33 tweets

Piers Morgan followed me and shared my Covid stats (not retweet but steal images)

Having highlighted the misinformation his GMB friends have put out about Covid patients in hospital he unfollowed yesterday

Not interested in facts - but fiction❓

Thread on misinformation 👇

Lorraine Kelly and Dr Hilary Jones putting out false facts.

Martin Kemp on Lorraine Kelly show repeating the same false facts

Susanna Reid quoting information that cannot be verified with any official source.

Lorraine issuing a ‘clarification’ which is also where no data is available to verify.

https://t.co/dnXBPhVeFc

I have offered to go on @GMB to present the facts as they are but they continue to ignore me and invite on guests who misrepresent the facts.

Not sure this is what you call quality broadcasting.

Also the Jeremy Vine show is at it

Still waiting for a reply from Fergus Walsh on this on the main BBC News Bulletin.

And we even have Government ministers ignoring the request for data.

Here the example of Piers sharing content without any credit.

The Conservative Party leader in Wales did credit the stats and suggested to Piers to get me on GMB.

But as we have seen the past week, they are not interested in facts, just propaganda and misleading the public.

On LBC we have just had a member of the JCVI quoting information not supported by the data.

And now Sky News are at it….

And now it's BBC Radio 4 turn

This on BBC Wales - its a contributor and is referring to her own hospital. I have linked to the national data.

Add in another for the Jeremy Vine show

The facts here may be correct for the hospital but some people think these numbers reflect everywhere.

Throw in Daily Mirror. To be honest most of what's written in this paper is nonsense.

And now Channel 4

Throw in a bit of Dominic Raab on Sky News

Nadine Dorries at it again.

MP Mark Francois

MP Stephen Hammond

Sadiq Khan

MP Bob Blackman

The turn of Sajid Javid

Dominic Raab at it

MP Lucy Powell

Daily Mirror

TV Doctor Michael Mosley

Fergus Walsh at the BBC again

Boris Johnson now

Tobias Elwood turn

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