Matthew Phillips

Libraries; Music; Heritage; Environment; Transport; Methodism; Programming – often intersecting.
Head of Research and Systems, Durham University Library.

[Matthew Phillips @phillipsme]

@trefeca @atrupar Didn't work out well making decisions for Czechoslovakia in 1938.

[Jordan @jordanbhx]

Increase fuel duty - for the first time in over a decade - to subside rail tickets.

[Karl Meisenbach @NoGodsforKids]

@69thSB

[☠️Acromee ☠️🦇 @StuntArtistProd]

@69thSB Fixed it for you 😘

[Matthew Phillips @phillipsme]

@PootDibou @rebalynn3234 @EmmanuelMacron All but one of which have been invaded by Russia in that past, but none of which have been invaded by Russia since they joined NATO. No-one can blame Ukraine for wanting to join.

[Matthew Phillips @phillipsme]

@trefeca @ShiptonMartin @adavies4 The last of the series, I assume?

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Il y a un agresseur : la Russie.

Il y a un peuple agressé : l'Ukraine.

Nous avons tous eu raison d'aider l'Ukraine et de sanctionner la Russie il y a trois ans et de continuer à le faire.

Nous, c’est les Américains, les Européens, Canadiens, Japonais et plusieurs autres.

Merci à tous ceux qui ont aidé et continuent. Et respect à ceux qui, depuis le début, se battent. Parce qu'ils se battent pour leur dignité, leur indépendance, pour leurs enfants et pour la sécurité de l'Europe.

[Rosalynd Southern @rv_southern]

@ShellyAsquith Yep. And this system isn't even working to secure the HE sector. There are due to be 10k job losses in HE this year with more to come. This will mean higher workloads and less time for our students. The system is fundamentally broken and no one in government seems bothered

[Matthew Phillips @phillipsme]

It's not just via aid in terms of armaments that Europe has helped Ukraine. European countries have also hosted millions of refugees: about 15 times as many as North America. https://t.co/kmuBg91Fqc

[🇨🇦CoffeyTimeNews🇨🇦 @CoffeyTimeNews]

“I support the idea of Ukraine being compensated first.”

“Second, all of those who paid should be compensated not by Ukraine, by Russia, because they started the war.”

- Emmanuel Macron

Right in Trump’s face!

😂😂😂

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Since congestion pricing was implemented ~2 months ago:

✅ no. of vehicles entering NYC has dropped
✅ car commuting times are quicker
✅ bus trips are quicker
✅ no. of people on mass transit is up
✅ transit crime is down
✅ fatal crashes & injuries WAY down

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees.
The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Please share this fact sheet about Ukraine with anyone who needs it

[Matthew Phillips @phillipsme]

@space4gosforth And now that the confirmed funding is slightly over a tenth of the value of the schemes they proposed, which are the priority for taking forward?

[space for gosforth @space4gosforth]

1. If the funding was £73m, why did Durham propose £208m of schemes in the NE transport Plan?
2. How could they possibly justify £100m of that to be spent on road schemes given all levels of government have committed to reduce carbon emissions?

[Matthew Phillips @phillipsme]

@QtARM Wow, that looks impressive!

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Let’s take a dive into history.

[Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 @rynkrynk]

It’s breathtaking how much easier it was for Russia to buy the US wholesale than to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield.

[Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 @rynkrynk]

I did not vote for Zelenskyy back in 2019. I haven’t always agreed with his domestic policy, and there are issues I still have with some of it. That being said he is the legitimate president of Ukraine and attacking him personally is attacking the will of the Ukrainian people.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend. History will not be kind to those who are helping him, especially those who call themselves Reagan Republicans while they pretend not to see what’s happening.

[Matthew Phillips @phillipsme]

How not to run the country in the climate crisis.
https://t.co/zAmkFMiqG9