Matthew Valentine

Journalist, writer and dog walker. I'm not staring out of the window. I'm thinking.

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

I've started a Substack. It's all about why your company isn't as sustainable or eco-friendly as you say it is, and what might be done about that.
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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Privatised water companies 'paid £377 average in dividends for every hour they polluted seas'."

There you have it. For ever hour sewage got dumped on to your local beach water company shareholders got paid £377.

Weren't you the lucky ones. 🤬

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[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

I still can’t quite believe this happened. What does it say about our society?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2019: Theresa May, "After Brexit our environmental standards will not fall"

2024: Oxford rower Leonard Jenkins, "A few guys got e.coli.. I was throwing up this morning.. It would have been ideal not to have so much poo in the water"

World famous #TheBoatRace2024 @theboatrace between Oxford and Cambridge affected by raw sewage dumped into the River Thames after the Conservative party promised our environmental standards would not fall after Brexit. Yet it has been the Conservative party who have repeatedly voted to allow water companies to continue to dump raw sewage in our rivers and seas - shame on them, and on anyone who continues to vote for them

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

There is a public outcry whenever a historic department store closes. Customers wax lyrical about how it was an https://t.co/PG2BBhFVAh

Few people miss catalogues. But knock down a department store and you never hear the end of it.

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

‘You can be blinded’: The perils of falling into the data trap https://t.co/XLvWGUxdhR

How to avoid the traps set by a narrow focus on your own data.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“There’s too much poo literally in that lake.”

Comedian Lee Mack says water companies should not be paying out millions to shareholders when there’s sewage being discharged into places like Lake Windermere.

[Tim Adams @TimAdamsWrites]

My interview with fearless, fabulous @Feargal_Sharkey in today’s Observer “Sewage is going to cost the government the next election”. https://t.co/rjfEpZaSFB

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

UK placed in third tier in global index of free expression https://t.co/5YHnYvXjIu

[John Harris @johnharris1969]

Retweet, retweet

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

Customer loyalty or acquisition? Which is most important in a cost of living crisis? https://t.co/c81tCrHJ6o

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

https://t.co/vsPhQ4cPn3
This government has even upset the RSPB. The Conservatives truly are the Millwall of politics.

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

How do you cope with constant uncertainty? https://t.co/olP8jTQgZv

[John Crace @JohnJCrace]

There's a job waiting for Liz Truss in an automated call centre

[George Osborne @George_Osborne]

Odd to see free marketeers urging a free market government to ignore the markets

[Julie Street 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Juliest101]

Brilliant description of Truss.

'The social awkwardness of Theresa May cross it with Johnson's wild-eyed incompetence, add just a sprinkling of Thatcher's hatred of the working classes and then just wipe off any residual charisma with a damp cloth you're kind of halfway there'.

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

https://t.co/Q9Sn6X3Cyk I've always wondered how constantly highlighting that you are as cheap as your rivals for SOME products is a good retail strategy.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Brilliant piece of Comms here. So much for taking back control ….

[Matthew Valentine @MatthewValenti1]

Renationalise the Water Industry - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/0FHS0f565F via @UKChange