Matty @MattyMMII

Joined January 2025

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Jack Airey @aireyj

15 hours ago

What happens if London hits its housing target? The economy goes gangbusters. New Public First research finds the benefits would reach £40bn a year - through higher construction output then through raised productivity that reshapes the capital's growth publicfirst.co.uk/boosting-londo…

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Deena Mousa @deenamousa

9 hours ago

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs. He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade. Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k. Why?

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Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant

14 hours ago

The boy who chucked a large sofa off the 3rd floor of a shopping centre 'for a prank' and only narrowly avoided killing/maiming someone. Somali interpreter's presence here the cherry on the cake. High likelihood we'll be paying for him & his entire family for the rest of his life

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Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick

2 days ago

This Islamist has dodged prison despite attacking a man with a knife for burning a Quran. I challenge anyone to watch the video and tell me he shouldn’t be locked up.

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath

4 days ago

I have a new @nytopinion guest essay w/ @DKeithClimate about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace cooling from air pollution today.

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Tom Harwood @tomhfh

2 days ago

I don’t feel safe living in a country alongside people roaming the streets who would *stab me to death* if I disrespected their magic book. Muscular. Liberalism. Now.

Basil the Great @Basil_TGMD

2 days ago

I don’t feel safe living in a country alongside people roaming the streets who would *stab me to death* if I disrespected their magic book. Muscular. Liberalism. Now.

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Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

2 days ago

A fascinating list of pop stars, actors, TV presenters and other luminaries have petitioned against this completely innocuous development on an underused station car park in the extremely wealthy suburb of Blackheath. I quote some highlights below, which tell us much about modern…

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Robert Colvile @rcolvile

3 days ago

6.5m houses behind the European average and Gary Big Brain thinks it’s all about ‘the rich’

Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley

3 days ago

6.5m houses behind the European average and Gary Big Brain thinks it’s all about ‘the rich’

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Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan

6 days ago

this is a bit of a misunderstanding; the mutation that in homozygote individuals leads to blue eyes has been in europe for a long time. it spread to be dominant late in the ice age in western and southern europe. these ppl were genetically very different from modern europeans

Balrog Unleashed @balrogunleashed

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Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan

6 days ago

when the great pyramid of giza was being completed ~2600 BC the british isles were dominated by a neolithic population genetically closest to modern sardinians. they were to be almost totally replaced a century later by the bell beakers in 2500 BC...

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Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu

a week ago

NEW: Britain is the most expensive place in the world to build a new nuclear power station. Here's how to change that. Backed by industry and senior politicians from across the spectrum (including a former SoS and a former nuclear minister), @BritainRemade have launched a plan…

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Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews

2 weeks ago

Starmer has two major weaknesses. First, no political antennae; Mandelson was an obvious, visible-from-space risk. Second, no sense of political direction. The latter makes him reliant on people like Mandelson, to guide him. In combination, such weaknesses are usually terminal.

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Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

3 weeks ago

And so we arrive at the remarkable situation, where almost nothing is being built in London. Remember that London is a city where floorspace values are several times higher than they are in most of Britain – higher than they have been in almost any time or place in the history of…

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Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

3 weeks ago

Over the last three years, housebuilding in London has collapsed. Molior recorded just 2,158 private starts in the first half of 2025, around 5% of London’s (low) targets, and still falling. What is going on? I have posed this question to numerous specialists, most of whom…

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Sam Bowman @s8mb

3 weeks ago

This – from Northstowe, England's biggest New Town since Milton Keynes – shows what New Towns are like in practice. Unkempt and unused green space overgrown with cow parsley. Cheap, small, low quality homes. News about a "meanwhile hub", nauseating jargon for a prefab strip…

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf

4 weeks ago

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper is out today. 🧵

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The Last Capitalist 🇺🇦 @OstanniyCap

4 weeks ago

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Morgan Wild @morgan_wild

4 weeks ago

London is the best city in the world. But in the 100 years since it first entertained extending the Bakerloo line, it hasn't been able to get it built. It is the richest city in Europe, but goes with a begging bowl for investment to Whitehall. Why?

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Mike Bird @Birdyword

a month ago

Sometimes I see or hear something so dismal about the UK that I actually go full circle and become slightly impressed. In a way, it's quite an achievement that the UK remains as prosperous as it does in the context of what effectively amounts to an electricity degrowth policy

Ben Southwood @bswud

a month ago

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Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV

a month ago

Inflation rising to 3.8% means there has been virtually no real terms wage growth since Labour came to power, according to @jrf_uk. Just a paltry 0.2% improvement in people’s living standards.