Working as executive producer for video at the Financial Times. Previously worked in BBC Global News (all views here are personal). Turkophile

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Joined March 2008
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Vaccinating people in Wales faster risks leaving staff “Standing around with nothing to do”. Astonishing comment.
"The thing that limits us at the moment is supply" Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford says using all Welsh stocks of the Pfizer vaccine in the first week would leave vaccinators "standing about with nothing to do" and that would be pointless #R4Today bbc.in/3bWyuQq
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I did some computer modelling of the Trappist-1 system to work out the size that each neighbouring planet would appear in the sky if you’re standing on Trappist-1c. (These are all maximums, not a single viewpoint.) The star is small, but very close. Planet 1b is 1.1 Earth radii.
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This tweet was sent exactly a year ago. In unrelated news, the government are finally bringing in checks at airports from Monday.
Been asked by journalists how serious #WuhanPneumonia outbreak is. My answer: take it seriously bc of cross-border spread (planes means bugs travel far & fast), likely human-to-human transmission & previous outbreaks have taught over-responding is better than delaying action.
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Yesterday I had a fascinating conversation with some very nice people who genuinely thought ‘big tech’ took down Parler because people were using it to argue about the election. They hadn’t see any of this, from AWS’s filing. This is why they took down Parler.
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If you're one of those people saying that conditions in UK hospitals are no busier than normal for this time of year, then please watch this. And reflect. Superb work from @jburnmurdoch and @tomhannen
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As ever the peerless John Burn-Murdoch nails it A zero sum game. Worth the nearly 10 minutes
NEW video from me & @tomhannen addressing more myths that have been used to play down Covid this winter. Featuring: • Why delays in death registration (& bad charts) wrongly led people to think there was minimal excess mortality • "Excess winter deaths" are not "excess deaths"
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Never quite understand why we always leave enough time for a mad scramble in both directions first.
NEW: PM announces all travel corridors are being closed from 0400 on Monday.
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NEW video from me & @tomhannen addressing more myths that have been used to play down Covid this winter. Featuring: • Why delays in death registration (& bad charts) wrongly led people to think there was minimal excess mortality • "Excess winter deaths" are not "excess deaths"
The FT's @jburnmurdoch explains why the UK's Covid-19 death rate is likely to rise further. Watch the full video: ft.com/video/0cd6f9f9-664e-4…
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normies are getting creative
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