Matthew Ball @MattyBall93

Relentlessly political social researcher. Currently exploring how AI can enhance research methods. London Joined March 2014

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DW News @dwnews

4 days ago

JUST IN: The world’s leading association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution stating that the legal criteria have been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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I’m old enough to remember when Scottish areas always always always topped the poverty charts. This (from JRF) shows the positive change that different political decision making can have when the policy priority is not predominantly to make the rich richer.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson

2 weeks ago

Britain accounts for 40% of phone thefts in Europe

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JP Spencer @JP_Spencer_

2 weeks ago

The 1985 Transport Act was one of the biggest policy failures of recent decades. Nothing better describes this than the chart below by @jburnmurdoch A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.

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François Valentin @Valen10Francois

a month ago

2025 China is a very different place from pre-covid China In 3 years they caught up auto giants Germany and Japan

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Mike Bird @Birdyword

2 months ago

The most promising remaining part of the current UK government's policy platform is being fed into a woodchipper

Freddie Poser @freddie_poser

2 months ago

The most promising remaining part of the current UK government's policy platform is being fed into a woodchipper

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Catholic Sat @CatholicSat

2 months ago

Cardinal Pizzaballa: “What we know for sure is that a tank, the IDF says by mistake, but we are not sure about this, they hit the Church directly, the Church of the Holy Family, the Latin Church” Images of the only Catholic Church in Gaza before and after today’s attack.

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Catholic Sat @CatholicSat

2 months ago

Two people are confirmed to be dead after Israeli strikes on Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Parish in Gaza, this morning. Several people have been injured, included Fr. Gabriele Romanelli, whom Pope Francis used to call every night. The building has also been damaged.

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Jostein Hauge @haugejostein

2 months ago

No advanced economy has seen a more severe growth slowdown since 2008 than the UK.

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YouGov @YouGov

2 months ago

Western Europeans would support allowing an independent Scotland to join the EU Denmark: 75% Germany: 68% Spain: 65% Italy: 64% France: 63% Britain: 46% Results link in following tweet

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richard bacon @richardpbacon

2 months ago

An astonishing scandal. They were denied food. Then when they went to get food. They were shot for getting the food.

Sky News @SkyNews

2 months ago

An astonishing scandal. They were denied food. Then when they went to get food. They were shot for getting the food.

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns

2 months ago

British folks feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but the disappointing thing about Keir Starmer is that it seems like he's blown up his own popularity in record time... and he didn't even accomplish much. Didn't really change the NIMBY stasis, the triple lock, etc. If you're…

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Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu

2 months ago

Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. If England built at French levels, it would have almost 3 million more homes. French homes are, on average, a fifth bigger that English homes.

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Ben Hopkinson @Ben_A_Hopkinson

2 months ago

The UK is short 6.5 million homes compared to similar European countries. That’s more homes than Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have combined. Britain’s low growth, poor productivity, and high intergenerational inequality can all trace their roots to this huge shortage.🧵

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Dr. Thrasher @thrasherxy

2 months ago

🧵Today is one of the darkest days yet in modern journalism. I want to write a thread about the martyrdom of journalists Abu Hatab & Omar Zaino, who are among the 30+ people massacred at a café journalists used for its WiFi, and about Bayan Anu Sultan, who was badly wounded.

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Owen Winter @OwenWntr

2 months ago

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

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STV News @STVNews

2 months ago

Edinburgh economy outperforms London for first time, new data reveals. news.stv.tv/east-central/e…

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BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight

2 months ago

"'It is so bad you almost have to admire their artwork in creating such a hopeless situation'". @nicholaswatt reports what Starmer loyalists are telling him, on the PM's handling of a rebellion over welfare reform. #Newsnight

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CSPAN @cspan

2 months ago

President Trump on Israel and Iran: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing."