Well at least Sean Dyche is available to steer Spurs to safety by the end of the season.

Re-upping this as it's getting on for 300,000 views as a YouTube short: www.youtube.com/shorts/Sm1FQ...

Last week we joined #UNBOXDLive in Digbeth, bringing Verify to life for 16-24s. We shared how our journalism works and ran our 'Filter the Fakes' quiz designed by @paulybrown.bsky.social, challenging audiences to spot AI images. Listening to young people is central to shaping the BBC’s future.

'Death to Khamenei' / 'Death to the dictator': Celebrations of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran last night also drew cries against the Iranian government following weeks of deadly protest. For the BBC Verify live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

The US has seized another sanctioned oil tanker, this time in the Indian Ocean: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

Post a banger that isn't in English. soundcloud.com/mrbongo/gold...

Have you considered those who lost out most (and even then, not a lot) from the disallowed Man City goal are Brentford? Had it been allowed, our bus stop in Hounslow would have gone above Liverpool, to sixth, on goal difference.

44 years ago Joe Strummer’s original handwritten set list for The Clash’s February 1, 1982 concert at the Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Image from Recordmecca #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #joestrummer #history #punkrockhistory

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a film journalist. Produced by @herdjemimah.bsky.social, edited by @olgar.bsky.social and @biancabritton.bsky.social.

Previously unseen photos showing Jeffrey Epstein's body lying on a stretcher and being attended to by medics in the immediate aftermath of his death have been released as part of a declassified FBI report in the latest batch of the Epstein files. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watch: How we put together what happened during Russian's renewed attacks on Ukraine, starting on Sunday. Particularly, how we could work out where at least 12 miners were killed, near Pavlohrad. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... How-to-open-source-this-yourself thread to follow.

Gaza, with @paulybrown.bsky.social and @benedictgarman.com, locating three of the strikes from Friday and Saturday. Two from Gaza City, one from al-Mawasi. On the BBC Verify live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Reposting to share we've posted the video on YouTube (should you wish to go to a separate social media platform to see it): www.youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...

Latest deadly Russian strikes in Ukraine. Copy from me on what we could say on Zaporizhzhia: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you liked BotW, try Necronomicon, a portmanteau Lovecraft movie from the Yuzna/Gordon stable starring Bruce Campbell and David Warner. Exactly as good as that sentence sounds to you, with Christopher Gans directing the first part. It’s a moody oddity versus the next two splatter-y stories.

How did these US F-15s end up at al Muwaffaq Salti, Jordan (OJMS) on satellite images? Reasonably confident these are one Centcom announced as in theatre on 20/01/26 of 494th Squadron USAF ("Panthers") x.com/CENTCOM/stat... Fighters rarely disclose tracking publicly, here's my workings...

BBC Verify is trying to show the world (a) how we know what we know, and (b) how you can do it, too. Always needs a team. Here's a crash course, using examples from @shayan86.bsky.social, @paulybrown.bsky.social, @emmapengelly.bsky.social, @sryder.bsky.social and @danict89.bsky.social.

Have you seen the snow in Kamchatka, Russia, this week? Maybe you have, and you really have. Or maybe not, or maybe you have but it's not. Clear? Getting knee deep in AI with @sryder.bsky.social.

Two weeks since Iran shut off the internet. Since then, BBC Persian and BBC Verify have verified around 100 videos which have made it out. But we've seen the flow dwindle. Most are from Tehran, many from Kahrizak. Some from Rasht. From the BBC Verify live page today: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

The protests in Iran have seen lethal consequences, seen repeatedly at the Kahrizak mortuary, Tehran. Working with @shayan86.bsky.social and Farida Elsebai, we have counted potentially hundreds of bodies there. Our summary for the BBC Verify live page from Monday: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

A verified motorcade of armed members of the Iranian regime, a video which first appeared last week, and two posts which headlined the BBC Verify live page on Friday, from Farida Elsebai, Ghoncheh Habibiazad and me: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

"The obvious victim is transparency" What Isik Mater of NetBlocks could tell us about Uganda's internet shutdown during the election, and what SnapMaps can show us of the internet coming back on: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9... With the help of Verify live page ed @robcorp.bsky.social.

Switching from investigations in conflict areas to breaking news from Hong Kong last week. Verifying video of a man with a large knife shot by police, for the BBC Verify live page: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz... The man, below, was stood about 22.3922248,113.9769404 (try it in any map app).

Tehran, Iran. Last weekend we verified all we could from what broke through the regime's internet restrictions. With @shayan86.bsky.social, @benedictgarman.com and Ghoncheh Habibiazad. Which led to major reports and videos from BBC Verify, plus four live page posts. My how-to notes to follow.

A week on from a very busy weekend in Iran. Working with @shayan86.bsky.social to verify material out of Mashhad, Tehran and other locations, which led to this piece: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Quick thread on how-to geolocate, to follow.

Last week, Aleppo returned to the news: current govt and SDF engaging to the east, predominantly Kurdish areas in the north under fire. BBC Verify live page up-sum by Paul Brown and me: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1... But, how did we know a video of exchanged fire was from the west of the city?

Trump and Noem's claims about the circumstances leading up to the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent are contradicted by video evidence. W/ @jakehorton.bsky.social @richib.bsky.social @paulybrown.bsky.social @emmapengelly.bsky.social @herdjemimah.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Yesterday's seizures of the Bella 1 / Marinera and the Sophia tankers provide a really quick and totally open-source lesson in verifying visual information. Please, have a go yourself. (Short thread.) Here's a summary from @paulybrown.bsky.social and myself: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

The war in Ukraine continues. Reported strike on the factory of a sanctioned Russian company in Yelets, Lipetsk, on Sunday night gave us a text book example of geolocation. (With a reminder of dating images by weather.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...

Should anybody need background reading, here’s BBC Verify’s @jcheetham.bsky.social on the US build up in the water off Venezuela and accusations of narco-terrorism: www.bbc.com/news/article... Plus, how experts saw this panning out 10 weeks ago.

Here's what BBC Verify could say about the Swiss fire at Le Constellation, particularly stills of the pyrotechnics which we traced back to the evening of New Year's Day.

So long, 2025. Many major talking reports, of which I was honoured to be a part. A brief highlights thread.

Websites are more than digital storefronts—they are maps of hidden connections. 🕵️‍♂️💻 We've just released "The investigator’s guide to website infrastructure," a blueprint for using WHOIS, SSL, and server fingerprinting to uncover hidden networks. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/website-in...

#BBCNews - Coups, elections and protests - a difficult year for democracy in Africa www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last month, I got a commission to write an open-source data project on the recent Radiohead tour for the BBC Verify live page (and plotted a speculative social media video). Yes I was. It didn’t work out… As the year closes, I thought you may like to read it. Merry Christmas. THREAD... 📷Alex Lake

The best David Lean (Zhivago, Lawrence, Kwai, Expectations), the great Ealing Comedies (Ladykillers, KH&C, LHM, White Suit), the good Star Wars, and BBC’s Tinker Tailor. Alec Guinness.

Pretty sure I own this Bolt Thrower album.

They should get rid of the toss in Tests. Coins are boring. In the Ashes, the toss should be replaced with a 50 metre firewalk race between the two captains. This is also why it is good to have large squads on tour.

Please read the below. It was a lot of work, and drawn from ~50 videos for which we confirmed the locations.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup FINAL THREAD 1/x OK, here we go. We have had 1,753 votes in this tournament so far and they have sorted all the Queen songs 12 of my friends and I could think of to a last pair. Let's step onto the stage at the Hammersmith Apollo and pretend it's Christmas Eve.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Wake up, babe, we have the other semi-final to do. ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST v BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY I’m not saying we’ve whittled this down to the hits, but this could have been Stone Cold Crazy v More Of That Jazz. Y’know, like we were cool and edgy. Anyway, VOOOTE

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Semi-final 1 KILLER QUEEN v UNDER PRESSURE Very late start, apologies, after record-breaking QF yesterday. Get voting: #KQ for laser beams, #UP for Bowie collabs.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup The final quarter-final. Couple of titans. Both from the Live Aid set, and the movie with the quick edits. RADIO GA GA v BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Winner will join Killer Queen, Under Pressure and Another One Bites The Dust in the semis. Reply vote #RG or #BR!

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup RECAP, last night: After two recounts, Under Pressure beat Don’t Stop Me Now by a vote. BBC mates and music pals went Don’t Stop Me Now. Transformers fans edged Under Pressure, but BlueSky was the difference. Today: ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST or SOMEBODY TO LOVE

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Killer Queen is through to the semi-finals. Who will join them? UNDER PRESSURE or DON'T STOP ME NOW Little Bowie collab, or another Freddie romp? Last rep of the Hot Space album, or last rep from Jazz? Vanilla Ice or Shaun Of The Dead?

#QueenWorldCup I am counting this extra late vote because (a) lovely reasoning, (b) it doesn’t change the result, and (c) it’s all engagement, bruv. Killer Queen 23-14 I Want To Break Free

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup It's the first QUARTER FINAL today. KILLER QUEEN has scored heavily, and by wide margins all the way. Walked it, m8. I WANT TO BREAK FREE really squeezed through against White Queen and Bicycle Race. Combative. Vote #Killer or #Break in reply, by 10pm.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup With Bohemian Rhapsody's victory this evening, we now know the FINAL EIGHT songs: Killer Queen v I Want To Break Free Under Pressure v Don't Stop Me Now Another One Bites The Dust v Somebody To Love Radio Ga Ga v Bohemian Rhapsody QFs start tomorrow.

QUEEN WORLD CUP #QueenWorldCup Last of the last 16, Mercury v Mercury. Self loathing v self love. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, never heard of it V GOOD OLD-FASHIONED LOVER BOY, joyous romp Vote in reply with your favourite, I want to hear some fighting talk. Result at 10pm.