On Wednesday this week, Nick Robinson broadcast a flat-out lie on Radio 4’s Today programme while interviewing a ‘Just Stop Oil’ activist. I hoped the producers might have had the sense to broadcast a correction. As far as I’m aware, they haven’t, so I’ve filed a complaint: 🧵 1/ While interviewing Just Stop Oil activist Indigo Rumbelow, Nick Robinson incorrectly stated that, “it simply isn't true to say that everyone agrees that having new oil development will kill millions of people. They don't agree on it. In fact, no government in any country 2/

A thread: I had a chat on the phone with my brother today. He lives in Singapore and was heading out for dinner at a restaurant with some friends.

To date, 29 people have died from covid in Singapore. Now they're rolling out the vaccine, and the economy is up and running. Yes, Singapore has a relatively authoritarian political system. Yes, it's a small country. But it does have a population larger than that of Norway, crammed onto an island the size of the Isle of Wight. It also has an ageing population and a high obesity rate.

Good morning. We arrived back in Keswick last night after a long drive back up from Bristol. I want to share a short story about a conversation we had at the end of our final leafleting round in one of the less well-off parts of the city. 1/ Daisy and I were in a lift with a group of other people, one lady had a pizza box in her hands. After she had stepped out we were left with one other guy. We were talking about how the smell of the pizza had made us realise how hungry we were. The guy interrupted. 2/