Antisemitic Incidents Report 2025 – CST Publications

Some parallels here, but the methodologies are different and so the numbers are not easily comparable.

cst.org.uk/research/cst...

It feels a bit weird to post this, but perhaps it cuts through in a way that documentation of attacks on Muslims does not?

Attacks on Christians in Israel and East Jerusalem: Annual Report 2025 - Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue This report is part of the Advocacy and Education Initiative, and aim to address the escalating harassment Christian communities have faced for many years, in Jerusalem and other areas of the country.

"The 2025 findings point to a concerning trajectory: harassment and violence against Christians are continuing within a sociopolitical climate that is increasingly intolerant of diversity and more assertive in exclusivist national religious claims."

rossingcenter.org/attacks-on-c...

Three teenagers in front of a Public Footpath sign pointing towards Clapham, in the Yorkshire Dales, in the rain.

Kemi Badenoch doesn't understand. Sometimes it's really hard to stop teenagers from going to Clapham.

A French-localised screenshot of a Strava running activity in the middle of the Mediterranean uploaded by someone named Arthur

A sailor runs laps on the deck of an aircraft carrier. On Strava, their speed is 4:58 mins / km. What was their actual running speed, and how fast was the aircraft carrier? (you may, if you want, assume that the forward legs are 3x longer than the rearwards legs).

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Is Tim Stanley disingenuous or stupid? He suggested on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social that E. Rantzen's continued survival shows that assisted dying ought not be legalised. But travelling to Switzerland is hard if you're very ill, so currently people choose death sooner than if they could die at home.

There were a bunch of headlines today based on this report claiming that Baby Boomers are more liberal than Gen Z, e.g.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This smells of Simpson's paradox to me. Would be great to know whether the global generation effects also exist at the country level.

The telegraph doesn't make it easy to search for this, but it's worth a quick and hilarious read.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

The real lesson to take from Gorton and Denton is for the future of UK democracy | Institute for Government Westminster is dangerously underprepared for a multi-party future.

Everyone is analysing the implications of the byelection for Keir Starmer and Labour but the most important lessons are for democracy - my latest for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...

Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP.

The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want.

The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.

OpenSAFELY news: you can apply to do non-COVID research, from today! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science We are delighted to announce that - from today - you can submit applications to the OpenSAFELY service for non-COVID-19 studies.

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c

Now it's over to users!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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One of the most astounding things about this government is their failure to grasp the primary lesson from the last one was so obviously "Don't mess about with Comms all the time, just do stuff that will probably work".

You do get the best of them, though. The guy that evaded 3.7M in tax and the guy that facilitated a bung to the Tories from a pornographer / property developer in return for helping him avoid paying a 45M levy that would have funded GP surgeries and schools. Reform now truly ready for government.

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My 13-year old daughter, who loves playing football, just noticed that Fifa has given Trump a peace prize. So I've had to explain to her who and what a terrible, vainglorious and probably corrupt person Infantino is. This is happening across an entire generation this weekend. I hope he's happy.

His background is pretty working class, so I think this is unjustified confidence of the "I got lucky in business so everyone else can too" kind, rather than public school.

Under Mahmood's current proposals, presumably would have been deported to Czechoslovakia in 1945, when it was "safe" again.

A photo of Chris Packham and a photo of Nathan Gill

I have appallingly bad ability to distinguish faces. These are two different people, right?

It might be bad, but those numbers are wrong. There are 1000l in a cubic metre (m3). So a 500ml sample can't measure 10.7 particles/m3. That concentration would result in 0.00535 particles in the bottle, but you can't have a fraction of a particle in a bottle.

It was remarkable. They did not challenge his suggestion that Trump was blameless wrt E Jean Carrol. Or that the capitol is a public building so some of the people there (during a riot) were just wandering around and not rioters.

c) First order, it doesn't matter: Whatever happens, 1 faithful is getting murdered. Second order, maybe you get a bit more information if you restrict the traitors' options, but it's more useful to think about the specific people getting shields and their value conditional on being faithful.

b) Both of them. One night after another. As soon as possible. Banishing 1 traitor at the cost of 1 faithful is much better than the expected value of random guessing (or what was realised). At the beginning of the game, it was still good even if you think that big dog was only 50% to be true.

Answers:

a) Your utility curve is pretty flat, so maximise expected value, which is to put everything on A.

It's a common fallacy to think the answer is different if each opportunity to win money is a bit different.

If the stdev is small compared to end-of-game prize fund EV, just maximise EV.

Lessons in probability from celebrity traitors:

a) If option A is 80% to be correct and B is 20%, how should you split the prize fund? (Ep 5)
b) If you believe that one of big dogs Stephen and Jonathan is a traitor, who should you banish?
c) Is it better for 2 or 3 faithful to get shields? (Ep 6)

This feels more like a competence thing than a probity thing. They were stupid to make the promise, but now they've realised that they were wrong, isn't it better to update than to blindly stick to a stupid policy?

This is exactly what I thought when I heard this story. My second thought was: perhaps the police really don't know about bisection?

British.

🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨

😱Sounds outrageous?

You know the drill…

If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏

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Don't know the basis of the claim, but 2B tax revenue on 400B per year of Swiss equity trading is unlikely. Sounds like maybe they think the govt is collecting 0.5% stamp on all this?