Benedict Mayer

Democracy, Politics, Governance, and Public Service Delivery. All views my own, considered or otherwise. 🇬🇧🇬🇭

[Nanjala Nyabola @Nanjala1]

Democracy requires sustained engagement between those who govern and those who are governed. Protest is also democracy. As is local government, and also public participation and just the possibility of public discourse. You have to work towards doing it all.

[Benedict Mayer @BenedictNMayer]

@LeeAndersonMP_ Setting aside anything else in this tweet's content, it must be pointed out that the headline refers to two dates in May and June - both *before* the election.

Surely the bare minimum expected of an elected representative is that they at least read an article before sharing it?

[William Kedjanyi @KeejayOV3]

Thought experiment: What would we say if this was happening in another country?

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

It sounds like a boring topic, but air conditioning is more important than you realise.

First: there are 2 billion air con units in the world and they account for 10% of all electricity we use.

Second: it has revolutionised architecture and totally reshaped global politics...

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

💥 NHS STAFF 💥

Please consider signing this open letter to @VictoriaAtkins & @AmandaPritchard at @NHSEngland expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut @NHSPracHealth funding for hospital staff.

Please share widely 🙏

Letter here:

https://t.co/jLlh8ejXpu

[Benedict Mayer @BenedictNMayer]

The Green's predicted share in the same model?

2.3%.

Incredibly disingenuous campaigning from the party.

[Tim Bale @ProfTimBale]

Ju-jitsu bar-chart move by the local Greens!

[Benedict Mayer @BenedictNMayer]

@ajebson @ProfTimBale Because the same model predicted the Greens winning... 2.3%

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

The world is changing. A global and skulking Suez Moment where the West appears unable to understand that yes, South Africa will take you to the ICJ, Brazil cannot be pressured into alignment with the West, and Guyana cannot be lectured on climate change by the BBC

[Ken Opalo @kopalo]

This is a good response.

People who live in high-income societies with energy abundance have no idea what they keep asking lower-income countries to give up.

[Martin Barrow @MartinBarrow]

Private equity and offshore investors continue to extract millions of pounds from children’s homes and foster care, even as the cost of children’s social care pushes councils into bankruptcy. 🧵

[undecided voter @eyeballslicer]

because we’re here on earth to fart around

[Political Animal @politic_animal]

This is why Galloway promoting himself as ‘the first MP for Palestine’ really sticks in my craw. Layla Moran is of Palestinian heritage, has family in Gaza, and demonstrates an actual commitment to peace and an understanding of the pain on both sides, in a way alien to Galloway.

[Activism Ghana @ActivismGhana]

The difference between the Sam George in the video and current Sam George is what the Ministry of Finance has stated concerning the anti-LGBTQ Bill. If your party is in opposition, you sing a different tune....

[Rightify Ghana @RightifyGhana]

Ghana's Ministry of Finance has urged President Akufo-Addo @NAkufoAddo not to assent to the anti-LGBTQ Bill

💢 Highlights negative impact of the passage and the implementation of the 'Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2024', aka anti-LGBTQI Bill, on the economy

[Benedict Mayer @BenedictNMayer]

@factcheck_ghana @_adwoaado A great service, but for prevention of misinformation you should put both the claim and the verdict in the tweet and article header.

You'll get fewer clicks, granted, but you'd be doing a greater service to the public, since many won't click the link and so only see the claim.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Every once in a while I think about the insanity of HBR asking Seinfeld if McKinsey could have made him more efficient

[Ira Gaines @IraGaines_]

Reminder that the killers of Agnes Wanjiru have never been brought to justice since her murder in 2012 and your favourite govt doesn't want to bother their former colonial masters to extradite the Brit soilders who did it. @gathara

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Lord Ken Clarke: " I always fear... about the risks of moving towards an elected dictatorship in this country. The sovereignty of Parliament has its limits, which are the limits of the rule of law... in a liberal democratic society such as ours."

#RwandaPlan