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...social impact - the sense of excitement in the city and the competition for best-dressed (pink) building will create an atmosphere of conviviality, a sense of place and occasion, uniting people in sport for a moment in time. There are also health benefits. Promotion of cycling, coming so soon after the Belfast City Marathon’s promotion of running, can only be positive....

...one should do depends very much on one’s understanding of a system’s underlying complexity. Oversimplification as in many YouTube videos leads to the wrong conclusions, which in turn can lead to the minimisation of risk and acceleration of harms. One should be careful therefore before posting simplistic material on Covid-19 on social media as it's likely to be wrong....

...socially positive narratives into productions. But what does sitting passively watching adults being goaded into interpersonal strife, denigration and dysregulated emotional outbursts do for the million or more viewers? Can we not expect at least some degree of desensitisation? And what about the effects on children and young people? There is little research that can...