Michael Goodier
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Journalist on the Guardian Data Projects team London and Brighton Ignore my silly posts
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Jim Waterson
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Londonâs âworst mass eviction in recent historyâ is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Azizâs Criterion Capital.
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
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Who's the billionaire behind Londonâs biggest mass eviction?
He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-mass-eviction-billionaire-landlord-criterion-capital
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Henry Dyer
3 days ago
Exclusive: Josh Simons claimed to be âsurprisedâ and âfuriousâ at a PR agencyâs work to investigate journalists on his behalf. He had been personally involved in naming them to British intelligence officials and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda. w/
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Labour minister falsely linked journalists to âpro-Kremlinâ network in emails to GCHQ
Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as âMcCarthyite smearâ
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/20/labour-minister-falsely-linked-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network-in-emails-to-gchq
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Waffle đ§
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âIâve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddingsâ is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
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Anoosh Chakelian
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My column in this week's
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
, on bad data used in bad faith. FOI-ing the stats myself, I didn't find a great deal of difference in sex offending rates: 5 per 10,000 Afghan men, 7 per 10,000 UK men:
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The truth about immigrants and sex crime
Corrosive innuendo about asylum seekers is helping no one
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/02/the-truth-about-immigrants-and-sex-crime
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This is outrageous and the minister involved ought to resign. je suis
@direthoughts.com
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Minister commissioned investigation of journalists looking into Labour thinktank
Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when director of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/labour-minister-intelligence-files-gathered-on-journalists-josh-simons?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Henry Dyer
17 days ago
Exclusive: Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons was provided with intelligence files gathered on journalists (including me) who had reported on Labour Together, the thinktank he chaired at the time (before he became an MP), sources say. Know more about this story? Contact me, Signal: henrydyer.01
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Labour minister was provided with intelligence files on journalists
Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when chair of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/labour-minister-intelligence-files-gathered-on-journalists-josh-simons
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The Guardian
20 days ago
Peter Mandelson resigns from Lords after Epstein email leak scandal
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Peter Mandelson resigns from Lords after Epstein email leak scandal
Former minister apparently shared confidential government emails with child sex offender and financier Peter Mandelson has resigned from the House of Lords after a series of scandalous emails came to light that linked him to the child sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, including ones that apparently leaked confidential UK government communications. The move was announced by the speaker of the House of Lords. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/03/peter-mandelson-resigns-from-lords-after-epstein-email-leak-scandal?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Anoosh Chakelian
21 days ago
"Tick-box" playgrounds, rising numbers of "no ball games" signs, play curfews... My column in this week's
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
on "deplaytion" - inspired by the Chernobyl-like property developer-run playground on my street:
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The hidden cost of "deplaytion"
Ban social media for kids all you like â but don't ignore their crap playgrounds
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2026/01/the-hidden-cost-of-deplaytion
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Richard Partington
25 days ago
âItâs soul destroying watching your local area turning to shitâ Doom loop of decline: how struggling high streets fuel far-right sympathies in UK - my analysis for the series -
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Doom loop of decline: how struggling high streets fuel far-right sympathies in UK
Retail accounts for 5% of the UK economy â but its visibility gives it an outsize influence on public perception
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/29/doom-loop-of-decline-how-struggling-high-streets-fuel-far-right-sympathies-in-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd
25 days ago
I wonder where it's all coming from?
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Josh Halliday
26 days ago
Britain's high streets will be one of the key electoral battlegrounds for months and years to come. Reform UK are making big advances in towns suffering the greatest high street decline. Big piece from one multibillionaire-owned town centre in County Durham:
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âYouâd be ashamed to bring someone hereâ: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reformâs road to No 10
Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaffordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon ownerâs holdings have made it a symbol of d...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/jan/28/newton-aycliffe-county-durham-high-street-decline
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New with
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- how does your high street compare to the rest of the country and how has it changed since 2019?
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How has your local high street changed since 2019? Check your postcode
The makeup of Great Britainâs high streets has changed dramatically. See what the data says about where you live
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/jan/28/how-has-your-local-high-street-changed-since-2019-check-your-postcode
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Just got off a coach from Manchester where several people sitting in all directions from me were playing tiktoks and TV shows etc out loud for the duration. Feel like my brain has been dipped in acid
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Pippa Crerar
about 1 month ago
In fact this is *ÂŁ380k* - around FOUR times an MPâs salary
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Pippa Crerar
about 1 month ago
NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare ÂŁ333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)âŚ
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Looking like every first round match at the snooker Masters is going to end with a 6-2 score
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đ Chartle for 12 Jan 2026: Fertility rate: births per woman Guessed in 2 tries đĽâ âŹď¸âŹď¸âŹď¸ Play at
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I've seen the horrific video and there has been professional analysis done of it by outlets like Bellingcat and NYT. It is not in fact an optical illusion like an image of a white and gold dress that others see in shades of blue. Some people are lying
about 2 months ago
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This platform won't ever be a place to follow breaking news events if they can't fix the search functionality. Searching for Iran on my phone app is only serving me posts from two hours ago despite seeing plenty of more recent posts from people I follow
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Gavin Hales
about 2 months ago
The MPS has published a review of historic vetting practices, which identifies that standards were cut in order to achieve a recruitment surge associated with the Police Uplift Programme (linked to ÂŁÂŁ), and to tackle disproportionality in vetting refusals
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what about Ethos - what are the government's guiding beliefs Ends - what is the government trying to achieve Execution - doing the stuff that follows on from the governments ethos in order to meet its ends
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Then: Mirrors Edge, Now: MKWii
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Jessica Elgot
2 months ago
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where Iâm very conflicted about whether itâs safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldnât have to live like this.
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Rob Davies
2 months ago
This was an extraordinary, spine-tingling moment, recognising fearless and crucial journalism. I don't think I've ever seen a standing ovation like that at a journalism awards do.
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Lauren Leek
3 months ago
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis:
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across Londonâs restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
https://open.substack.com/pub/laurenleek/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?r=2mgxo2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Hettie OâBrien
3 months ago
THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by
@wnbooks.bsky.social
on 9 April 2026. Itâs a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and itâs available to pre-order now!
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Henry Dyer
3 months ago
further to the quoted section below from one former pupil: The Guardian has acquired a copy of the Dulwich College roll in 1980. It shows (this collage is just an excerpt) how there were 13 pupils that year with the surname Patel, and 12 with the surname Smith.
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Great scoop by
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in Press Gazette. Just searched my emails and I have 113 unread from this spam PR company
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Dubious experts deployed by MyJobQuote published more than 600 times in UK press
A network of apparently fake experts has polluted the British media with at least 600 pieces of often AI-generated and misinformed commentary.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/dubious-experts-deployed-by-myjobquote-published-more-than-600-times-in-uk-press/
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Really enjoyed working on this one with
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looking at the areas where deprived and non deprived neighborhoods sit side by side. Good example of using datasets to find case studies
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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âPosh-poor divideâ: the rise in areas of England where wealth and deprivation appear side by side
Data shows increase in neighbourhoods where few metres of asphalt, hedgerow, or wall can separate deep inequality
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/01/posh-poor-divide-the-rise-in-areas-of-england-where-wealth-and-deprivation-appear-side-by-side
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The Guardian
3 months ago
Small changes to âfor youâ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
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Small changes to âfor youâ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found. A groundbreaking experiment to gauge the potency of Elon Muskâs social platform to increase political division found that when posts expressing anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity were boosted, even barely perceptibly, in the feeds of Democrat and Republican supporters there was a large change in their unfavourable feelings towards the other side. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/27/partisan-x-posts-increase-political-polarisation-among-users-social-media-research?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Also the 'nick 30 ans' thing
started in 2020
and the British one in 2023 apparently so made-up Nick would actually be 32-35. Thanks for reading my fact check.
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Alex Hern
3 months ago
From now on, when discussing the budget, please use âis this measure bigger than the cost to the exchequer of gen Z drinking lessâ as your metric for assessing whether something actually raises or costs a significant sum
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Office for Budget Revelations
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Kiran Stacey
3 months ago
Absolutely extraordinary - this seems to be the OBR's entire economic outlook, posted half an hour before the chancelor stands up:
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Have got my friends hooked on
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- honestly one of the great puzzle games
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The Guardian
3 months ago
Influencers made millions pushing âwildâ births â now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
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Influencers made millions pushing âwildâ births â now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. âYou are a queen,â murmured one of three friends in the room. Only Esauâs mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. âCan you help [him] out?â she asked, as Esau crowned. âBaby is coming,â the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, âCan you grab [him]?â Another friend murmured, âBaby is safe.â Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, âCan you grab [him]?â Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Henry Dyer
3 months ago
Very happy to make the shortlist alongside brilliant colleagues
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@michaelgoodier.bsky.social
David Conn
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for this year's Public Service Journalism category at the British Journalism Awards for our project The Lords Debate.
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UK public service journalism heroes recognised at British Journalism Awards
Express, FT, Guardian, The i, Standard and Eastern Eye make public service shortlist.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-events/uk-public-service-journalism-heroes-recognised-at-british-journalism-awards/
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Henry Dyer
3 months ago
Exclusive: âDeeply shockingâ: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations w/ Dan Boffey and
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âDeeply shockingâ: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/deeply-shocking-nigel-farage-faces-fresh-claims-of-racism-and-antisemitism-at-school
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David Dubas-Fisher
3 months ago
The government recently started publishing the immigration status of Universal Credit claimants. It showed that EU claimants are more likely to be in work than their UK counterparts. 46% of EU citizens claiming Universal Credit are in work compared to just 31% of those from the UK and Ireland.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
3 months ago
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
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Samir Jeraj
3 months ago
How many people would be comfortable buying a wedding ring that had been seized from a refugee. Maybe it was the last item they had to remember a loved one. Is that the world we want our government to actively encourage?
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Stephen Collins
3 months ago
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Lisa OâCarroll
4 months ago
Exclusive: Lib Dems demand to know how HMRC child benefit crackdown got go ahead after data from pilot scheme shows high error rate, with 46% of those originally flagged as emigrated, living in the country.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/09/hmrc-trial-child-benefit-crackdown
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UK in a Changing Europe
4 months ago
"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them." âď¸ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
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Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migration-is-bad-news-for-the-uk-economy/
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Mollie Simpson
4 months ago
A London lawyer is demanding dozens of Sheffield homeowners pay ÂŁ25k to buy the freehold off him - or face court action for covenant breaches Given he acquired these freeholds for under ÂŁ400 each, this equates to a potential profit margin of over 6,000%
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
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the line has passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabiaâs Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salmanâs utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/
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A great opportunity in the US for a data journalist!
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Henry Dyer
4 months ago
Here are some emails from the MHCLG while Angela Rayner was DPM/Housing Secretary showing the department acting unlawfully by not treating an FOI request as "applicant blind" but instead seeking clearance from SpAds and the newsdesk on both my FOI and then an internal review.
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Will Craft
4 months ago
This is UK based, a great job with a great team!
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We're looking for a new data viz person on our graphics desk to work closely with us in the data projects team!
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Graphic Artist
Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journ...
https://workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/editorial/london-united-kingdom/graphic-artist/888
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