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“Drugs deaths up by 67% in Wales in three years” screams the BBC, ensuring that the buzzword “alarming” is thrown in*.

If you the copy/paster journalist had read the report, they’d realise that the researchers have improved their data gathering techniques this year (27 unrecorded cases in Wales in last year’s report), so the “67%” may indeed be an exaggeration.

Oh, and deaths caused by amphetamine and cocaine were down by around a third nationwide (15% to 12%, and 5% to 3% respectively).

But that sort of story wouldn’t generate clicks, would it?

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* cf. “billowing” regarding fires and “rocking” regarding earthquakes

** remind you of the whole MMR autism thing, perchance?

Jacqui Smith is finally out of the House of Commons.

Yes!

Edit: Brown too. Let us finally rejoice!

Dear Child-Fuckers,

Thousands of newspaper articles about countless documented cases around the world of child rape, instigated by your members and systematically covered up by your leadership, are not “petty gossip.”

Yours lack-of-faithfully,

TFS

That person who leads that marginal British political party of alleged racist bigots:

All Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims and as for gays, not all gays are militant and want to shove it down everyone’s throats.

This quote is like a gift from the gods.

Seriously. It’s just… beautiful. Thank you, Nick. Thank you for brightening my day.

Mass Rome rally shows support for Silvio Berlusconi

Seeing this headline, my first thought was: “who paid them?”