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Ben van der Merwe
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Digital investigations journalist @SkyNews. @JSchofieldTrust fellow 2025. Signal: bvdm.22
Dec 27, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
There really isn't anything suspicious about the Reform UK ticker.

@DanielJDunford and I took a look, this is what we saw. Kemi seems to be alleging that the ticker is programmed to increase automatically.

This is actually very common for tickers relating to things where the data isn't updated often.

Any ticker showing government debt, unemployment or global temperatures is almost certainly going up at a regular, pre-programmed rate.
Nov 22, 2024 • 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.

What's going on? Image
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.