Scurrilous 'journalism' from the Daily Mail again. A school friend *in the early 1990s* started learning at 16 - because he'd had his leg amputated after leukemia.

If anyone is wondering how many people this affects… In the last 19 years (that’s the data I’ve found): 1,765 16 year olds took a driving test Out of a total 30,367,393 tests taken. 0.0058% They had a 59.1% pass rate compared to a national average 47.1% bsky.app/profile/monk...

The media (aka The Fourth Estate) are supposed to call politicians to account. So what happens when it’s the media that need calling to account? Emma Monk is what happens!

Emma Monk has to the best of my knowledge never made a thread that wasn’t essential reading. Unbelievable.

Emma is well-worth a follow if you are interested in clear debunking of disinformation.

Here you go @jimcrawfurd.bsky.social 👍🏼

Let's take a look at this claim as "revealed" by the Daily Mail. TLDR - It's taken them a reeeeeally long time to "reveal" this law 😜 So what's the reality behind this headline? 🧵 1/23

Emma's is the best thread I've read on the "1976 wasn't all that bad" trope. Its highest temp isn't in the top 10 attained nor is it mean temp in the top 5. It was horrible with melting roads, heat deaths, water rationing, changes to work start times, babies burning in the sun, crops failing.

Buckle up for another epic thread from the ever-insightful Emma Monk, debunking yet another fact-free right-wing story! This time, about climate crisis. This thread is also a great lesson in how to do science communication to reach us non scientists

The summer 1976 nostalgia porn is sickening. A brilliant thread:

An absolute treasure trove of information based on scientific fact rather than Fiona off Facebook's fanciful fallacy.

excellent thread. immediate follow. thank you @monkemma.bsky.social for talking sense to the senseless (if only they'd listen 🙄)

Love Emma for debunking boomer porn !!

*Excellent* thread. Do read (in the shade, with a nice cool drink, sunscreen applied, and a fan). Oh...and don't burn copies of the Daily Telegraph. If you're unlucky enough to find any, they can be recycled.

Emma doing great stuff here as ever, debunking one of those Telegraph relics with bizarre ideas about the past. I was living in London in 76 and water was the main problem. There were standpipes on the corners of streets, and lots of London Blitzesque spirit. Found myself queuing with Helen Mirren.

Hooray for @monkemma.bsky.social, dubunking dangerous climate change denial...

If you're not following Emma Monk, right now is the time to start.

The magnificent Emma Monk at her magnificent best. Superb thread.

This is superb and required reading. If you’re not following Emma on here, you bloody well should be.

Emma, as always, cuts through the meat and grisle, and gets right down to the bone:

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

@monkemma.bsky.social loved the debunking workshop this morning. I couldn't stop and chat afterwards, but wanted to say keep up the good work.

Lovely feedback after my debunking misinformation workshop at @humanists.uk Festival of Humanism this weekend!

Mystery solved - it was the @financialtimes.com Inside Politics newsletter👍🏼

Just had a whole flurry of new Substack sign ups but no idea why 25 people just randomly decided to sign up at 9:38 on a Tuesday morning! They haven’t come from X or bluesky or a news website. Have I been mentioned on a radio show?? Please let me know if you heard it! 😁

Who else is utterly sick of right wing media's lies? "Why did the Telegraph put "Food is too cheap" in quotation marks when Zack Polanski never used those words?" @monkemma.bsky.social debunks...it's a flipping full time job! Do help fund her if you can. westcountryvoices.co.uk/no-zack-pola...

It was an honour to be asked to come and run a session at #festivalofhumanism with @humanists.uk. So many fascinating speakers and interesting people! What a lovely weekend!😊

Enjoying day 1 of the Festival of Humanism 2026! Some truly interesting conversations and ideas. Running a debunking workshop tomorrow! 😁🧐🤓

@monkemma.bsky.social Cuts through the BS masterfully. She also gives debunking workshops. Festival of Humanism 2026 Friday 12 June, 19:00 – Sunday 14 June, 15:15 Bournemouth International Centre

Today isn't a debunk as much as a pre-bunk! We know the narrative that will inevitably follow this story on the front page of today's Telegraph - but particularly amongst the millions who will only read the headline and not the paywalled article 🧵 1/6

Another excellent thread from Debunking Queen @monkemma.bsky.social (official title). Note the deliberate use of FURY in the headline, aimed to manifest the outcome. Our media is an abomination.

Emma is definitely worth following if you don’t already. Dissects gotcha headlines and shows how our press is basically in the gutter.

🚨FURY as Thames Water to host Careers Day for Refugees 🚨 Apparently...🤔 Who are all these furious people, making this newsworthy across several newspapers, TV channels, radio shows and countless YouTube videos? 🧵 1/23

Another vitally important debunk from @monkemma.bsky.social . westcountryvoices.co.uk/how-do-you-t...

@monkemma.bsky.social is worth a follow on Substack. If only to shut down those that see the headlines not the misinformation.

@monkemma.bsky.social does it again. It's really worth following her full 🧵. Again highlights that there are no easy answers to complex social issues.

If you dont follow Emma (either here or on Substack) you really should!

My debunk thread from earlier is now also a Substack post if you prefer the long-form read. Also, do you like my new stamp?😁 monkdebunks.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

Sharing because this is the key stastic which even the report authors failed to highlight. This whole thread is top quality @monkemma.bsky.social exposing terrible grasp of quant research findings.

Sadly, the people that NEED to see this debunk probably won't. That said, Emma's work is incredibly important, and this needs to be shared far and wide. Perhaps back to the original publishers....

🔥 Masterful debunking of RW #Misinformation #disinformation, with facts; as always 🫶🏻✌🏻

The Express is lying again, the CSJ is a right wing 'think tank' founded by Iain Duncan Smith, which has manipulated the stats. The real figures are 10 TIMES AS MANY YOUNG BRITS HIRED AS YOUNG NON-EU NATIONALS. bsky.app/profile/monk...

This is a fabulous exercise in cool, objective analysis being used to cut through the absolutely nonsensical misinformation being waved around by the media. Follow @monkemma.bsky.social to obtain a higher signal to noise ratio.

Best thread I've seen on here and a must read

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

Real journalism. Done by a real journa—oh hold on—real molecular biologist.

If you don't already follow Emma I highly recommend you do.

A £300 tax on your UK summer holiday does sound like a lot... So let’s take a look at this tax, put it in a wider context, and find out where that £300 figure came from.👍🏻 1/26 🧵

Because the British Yellow Press can't be trusted. A single woman works tirelessly against the foreign and domestic propaganda operations trying to break Western society. I am in no wise exaggerating. Sign up for her newsletter, if you know what's good for you.

But how many are going to St. Ives?