Some analysis on this then...

https://twitter.com/DavidVidecette/status/1332365762569367553

First of all, lets look at the evidence base they've used for this.

The claim: "An analysis of 3,184 cases in Japan identified 61 case-clusters that were observed in healthcare and other care facilities, restaurants and bars, workplaces, and music events."

The UK government have just published the evidence on the transmission risk in the hospitality sector - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/pub… I haven’t read it all yet, but it appears to be broken into three parts.

I’ve highlighted (below) one section from each of those three main parts showing (top line) issues with the evidence.

Once I’ve read it all I will discuss further.

The Ammonium Nitrate at Beirut Port was there due to a complex legal dispute. A story of the legal wranglings is on shiparrested.com

On 23/9/2013 a ship called the Rhosus, flying the Moldovian flag, sailed from Batumi Port, Georgia heading to Biera in Mozambique... The Rhosus was carrying 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate.

En route to Mozambique, the Rhosus got into technical difficulties, forcing it to enter Beirut Port. Upon inspection of the vessel by Port State Control at Beirut, the vessel was forbidden from sailing further.

On this day in 1812, Spencer Perceval became the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated. On an otherwise unremarkable Monday afternoon at about a quarter past five, Perceval entered the lobby of the House of Commons on his way into the chamber

A man, who had been sitting quietly by the fireplace stood up, walked towards the prime minister, and shot him in the chest

This is the moment The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was closed due to Coronavirus.

Last time this happened was in 1349, during The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic.

What’s fascinating about this story is the guy with the keys. The church is in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Within its complex it is said to contain the two holiest sites in Christianity; the site where Jesus was crucified, and the empty tomb, where he is said to have been buried and then resurrected.

Much of the talk about yesterday’s drone strike has been focused on Qasem Soleimani, somewhat missing the other significant individuals with him in his convoy, and in doing so, missing why this convoy was such a threat.

Also in the convoy was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. al-Muhandis helped form Kata'ib Hezbollah, a powerful paramilitary entity that had been actively involved in the protests at the US embassy in Baghdad

The group were active in the Iraqi civil war against coalition forces & more latterly against ISIS, again backed by Iran.

Love how everyone is getting bent out of shape because Guy Verhofstadt is claiming we need an EU empire...

It's not new, he's been saying this since 2015, well before the referendum.

What's alarming is he's saying it at a Lib Dem Conference, and being loudly cheered for it.

https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/651794143383916544

This really isn't anything new for the EU, not at all, and if you think it is, you've not been paying any attention:

The election of Jean-Claude Junker as commission president was said to a 'crucial step' towards United States of Europe in 2014.

theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/opini…

Tiblisi, Georgia:

Woman stabs a three year old child in the face as he walked with his parents.

Both parents are so shocked they take what seems like an eternity to act on the threat.

Moving everyone away safely is the most important thing here.

The child, had deep wounds in the nose and right cheek. He received stitches and has since been discharge from hospital.

1. This Sunday marks the 33rd anniversary of Suzy Lamplugh's disappearance; the beginning of a nightmare for her family & friends. Paul & Diana Lamplugh sadly passed away never knowing what happened to their daughter after she left her estate agency offices on 28th July 1986. 2. People don’t just disappear.

So, in 2016, I began studying the flaws in the police investigations over the past three decades, to understand the repeated failures in why Suzy's body has never been found and why no one has ever been prosecuted for her disappearance and murder

There’s a fair amount of dispute on Twitter as to if this is the Iranian Navy.

I checked the details on the video against the type of boat the US claim was used - an IRGC Gashti-class patrol boat.

https://twitter.com/usnavy/status/1139362655305641984

There’s a lot of features on the boat in the video that match those used by the Iranian navy.

The Daily Mail have published some photos of the Michael Macintyre robbery by two moped thugs in Golders Green yesterday.

There are a few interesting points that are worth mentioning about them... dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5… First off, timing & location of attack.

I’m totally not interested in moaning about double yellow line parking here, so forget that

He’s stopped to pick up his son, and this would appear to be a regular occurance - it leaves open the idea that he was specifically targeted.

Trump froze $200 million in aid to Syria a few days ago, this includes money that would have gone to White Helmets.

Funding was for humanitarian work they were doing in East Ghouta, when being bombed, in an area they no longer control, or work in.

Why continue to fund them?

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According to this, we’ve been spending £579,000 every single month on the White Helmets.

Rather oddly, the FCO can’t confirm how this money is being spent by them...

Anyone who is talking about the completely illogical ‘Twitter Scandal’ of more ‘Russian interference’ in elections should read how The Times actually identified the ‘Russian bots supporting Jeremy Corbyn.’

Russian interference thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/h… But if you don’t want to read it, I’ll save you the agony and break it down for you:

“Swansea University passed The Sunday Times 20,000 general-election-related tweets sent in the four weeks leading up to the vote by accounts that gave their language or location as Russian.”

If you wonder why I am upset by the behaviour of our government toward Russia in the Skripal case, then you have a very short or distorted memory of what our government did in 2003. They literally took pieces of intelligence, cut out the context of it, distorted its meaning, and then led parliament astray with it - just to get a vote for war in Iraq.

4. The detonation method, using light bulbs and an electric current, is identifical and common with other successful IED's. 5. Device at Parsons Green has used a timer to detonate the initial part of the device. We haven't actually seen this in UK before.