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Data journalist
Nov 22 6 tweets 2 min read
This post is misinformation, and the CIA is to blame.

A lesson in data presentation🧵 The claim that Gaza's population grew by 2% this year is taken straight from the CIA's World Factbook.

This is a healthy growth rate, barely changed from the year before.

And notably the death rate is actually *lower* than before.

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Feb 21, 2023 24 tweets 7 min read
Nurses, ambulance workers, and now junior doctors are going on strike.

📊10 charts to understand the NHS workforce crisis
news.sky.com/story/nhs-cris… Here's two things that are true:

1. The NHS has more staff than ever before

2. The NHS is shorter of staff than ever before

That's because the *need* for staff is growing faster than the NHS can recruit.
Nov 18, 2022 13 tweets 4 min read
Rising costs are set to wipe out nearly 90% of the Chancellor’s boost to NHS funding.

Inflation and increased demand for healthcare are set to cost the NHS £5.8bn over the next two years, leaving just £800m of additional funding for improving services. news.sky.com/story/nhs-spen… Yesterday, Jeremy Hunt promised £3.3 billion in additional funding for the NHS next year and the year after.

Analysis by @NuffieldTrust, shared exclusively with Sky News, shows where that money is likely to actually end up.
Jan 5, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
The government has responded to the petition to repeal Clause 9 of the #BordersBill, which has topped 314k signatures.

Thread 🧵
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6015… Government: "Deprivation on ‘conducive to the public good’ grounds [...] has been possible for over a century"
Jan 5, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
This is untrue.
The facts on removing 🇬🇧 citizenship:

➡️ Deprivation was only possible for treason until 2002
➡️ You can't appeal a decision of which you haven't been notified
➡️ It can be used against any dual citizen if deemed "conducive to the public good" The #BordersBill allows the government to withhold notification if it is deemed:

➡️ In the interests of national security,
➡️ In the UK's diplomatic interests, or
➡️ Otherwise in the public interest.”
Jan 5, 2022 13 tweets 6 min read
Exclusive: Leading charity heads and barristers have condemned the #BordersBill as "overtly racist" newstatesman.com/politics/2022/… 100 civil society figures, including the heads of @samaritans, @RunnymedeTrust and @MABOnline1 described the bill as “a route to disenfranchisement and even deportation of people of colour on an unprecedented scale”.
Aug 25, 2019 39 tweets 18 min read
I spent five months undercover in Generation Identity with @hopenothate

I found:
- Links to terrorist group National Action
- Links to the Navy and Trident
- The inside story of their split with Europe

Full story: hopenothate.org.uk/inside-generat…

THREAD:

1/ Back in March, I made a fake Facebook profile and added people on the most extreme, violent fringes of the far-right. People who posted things like this after the Christchurch massacre.