Friday Links

• Hate crime rises in areas with BNP councillors. None of it can be directly attributed to the councillors or their party, but the legitimisation of racist attitudes has inevitable consequences.
• Asylum seekers do not "choose" the UK
• [trigger warning] Updates from Haiti 1 and Updates from Haiti 2
• After the earthquake, Haiti needs more than your latte money
• meloukhia at FWD on policing of food
• Yet more bad science reporting from the BBC (and others) and what the study actually found. It's rare for the paper's author to write in to say "I never said anything of the sort".
• "In which I confuse a child psychologist"
• Via FWD more consequences of security theatre
• The BBC is running a survey on how its portrayal of LGB people is perceived