Matthew Goodwin

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

[Matthew Goodwin @fatmatgo]

@elonmusk Elon talking about propaganda institutions with no sense of irony 🤣

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.

The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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https://t.co/bsnKnag51p

[Matthew Goodwin @fatmatgo]

@GaryLineker @alanshearer @MicahRichards @RestIsFootball Is it just me who likes what Carsley's doing? Let's be honest, Nation's league doesn't matter and he's trying to improve our pressing and play attacking football with our best players. Southgate had years to develop the way he played, it's not going to be perfect after 2 games!

[Matthew Goodwin @fatmatgo]

@ChronicleNUFC Your website is unreadable with the amount of ads and pop-ups. Would be great if you could just post the video with Darren Eales here.

[Matthew Goodwin @fatmatgo]

@nufctrust @ToonPolls ID check when buying membership to prevent websites/touts buying them all up.

[Stuzi 🐝🐝 @stuzi_pants]

I had to watch this 3 times to be fully clear on what I’d just listened to

Today’s evidence at the Covid Inquiry effectively lays the blame for 25,000 additional Covid deaths to at least a significant degree at the feet of Boris Johnson

Horrifying

[Prime Liverpool @footiestatto]

Matt Hancock wearing the same shirt he auctioned to raise money for the NHS 3 years ago - 🤔

[Duchess Gemma (MTE) aka Ms Tonks🐟 🇪🇺🇬🇧🕷 @gemmagould]

This is by no means complete and possibly not in order. I present to you our Chancellor Jeremy Hunt a 🧵

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS MOMENT FROM THE ONE SHOW

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

“Why can’t we know the names of all those fined in Downing Street?” demands Sun. “Is your deputy editor one of them?” asks Eye. “We’re not telling you” responds Sun. Full story in the new Private Eye, out today.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

How corruption works:

Owen Paterson is paid £100,000 a year to lobby for Randox. Owen Paterson sits in on a meeting between Randox and Lord Bethell. Randox get over £500m of contracts in a closed process. Bethell deletes his WhatsApp messages.

[Deirdre Heenan @deirdreheenan]

The £37 billion given to Dido Harding (not the NHS) for Test & Trace is more than the estimated cost to vaccinate the *world*

Where on earth did it go?

Shouldn’t this be a priority for the government’s anti-corruption tsar? Who is? *checks notes* Dido Harding’s husband. Oh

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Brexit(-4%) will inflict worse long-term damage on the British economy than Covid(-2%) - Office for Budget Responsibility.

[HOPE not hate @hopenothate]

Hi @BorisJohnson,

Remember the Singh inquiry that investigated Islamophobia and other forms of racism in your party? Well, your appointment of @NadineDorries suggests that you have probably forgotten, so we decided to make your job a little easier for you [a thread].

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Who do you trust? Sajid Javid? Or @chrischirp? This was from @IndependentSage’s Friday briefing & she couldn’t have put it any clearer. The government’s plan is ‘a terrible plan’

[Anton Spisak @AntonSpisak]

When I was 15, my first contact with the UK was through @BritishCouncil and their excellent Active Citizens programme. It turned me into an anglophile. Any UK government that can find £200m for a royal yacht, but not £10m for British Council has its priorities completely wrong.