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Charlie Matthews

@charliematthews

Moderately online geriatric millennial. Political strategy consultant mainly in the development / humanitarian sector. Based in Brighton, UK

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A statue of Hodge, “a very fine cat belonging to Samuel Johnson”

A statue of Hodge, “a very fine cat belonging to Samuel Johnson”

How about animas who belonged to famous Britons on bank notes?

11.03.2026 14:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would have thought corporate sponsorship could be part of the answer, am sure some local companies would be willing to support it?

11.03.2026 11:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It would be an absolute tragedy if this was lost. It’s often not safe for kids to paddle in the sea itself as waves can be big and there’s quite a drop off.

11.03.2026 11:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Slightly galling to see him seemingly having put all that behind him when I am still paying an extra £250 on my mortgage every single month thanks to his Budget

10.03.2026 12:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I take pics and report them on my local council website, they don’t always get there in time but have had a few very gratifying emails saying that people have been ticketed and moved on.

09.03.2026 21:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thoroughly enjoyed this @economist.com obit of Philippe Gaulier. My life is enhanced by knowing there existed a perennially angry, anarchist clowning teacher who charged £2300 a term and “growled” at students saying “this is so, so shit!”

09.03.2026 17:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March

09.03.2026 10:10 👍 17 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 0

This looks a) incredible and b) like a nervous breakdown waiting to happen

05.03.2026 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m sorry but these things should just not be legal!

05.03.2026 16:42 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Inexcusable and unforgivable. We should not be supporting this in any way

03.03.2026 21:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still the only joke I can ever actually remember, I once had to reel it out in a JOB INTERVIEW when they asked me to tell them a joke (a sadistic thing to do, imo)

03.03.2026 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Tomorrow in the Commons: debate on cuts to FCDO – it faces the largest cuts of any department, especially in overseas development; Foreign Affairs Committee chair Dame Emily Thornberry warns staff cuts of 15–25% without a clear strategy are 'alarming' (h/t Hansard Society)

03.03.2026 20:33 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it.

The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform.

If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.

03.03.2026 10:27 👍 839 🔁 226 💬 18 📌 5

absolutely. As well as all the NHS ones I paid for chicken pox jabs for my kids - not as dangerous as measles obvs but just generally unpleasant and painful, why would I not want to protect them from that if I can?

03.03.2026 10:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’ve been repeatedly told that climate change will remain a priority for U.K. aid - along with global health and humanitarian. If this is what happens to a priority issue what are we going to see elsewhere?

02.03.2026 20:16 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

evergreen post

02.03.2026 14:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Useful definition of “sectarianism”, the word of the moment

I do find it really weird that Starmer has used the same framing for the result as the Tories and Reform

28.02.2026 18:33 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

I mean I have just witnessed a strained-looking Boots security guard attempting to explain Isreal / Palestine to a confused elderly Eastern European man, so maybe that’s what they were aiming for

28.02.2026 12:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As ever: WHAT IS YOUR THEORY OF CHANGE

28.02.2026 12:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I will never understand what people think they are going to achieve protesting in *Brighton*. The seat of government is one hour away, if you feel so passionately about your issue then get on a train and go somewhere you might actually be noticed

28.02.2026 12:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just take a second to think how Labour would talk about being beaten by a plumber from a working class background in Bolton if they were a man.

27.02.2026 16:18 👍 158 🔁 32 💬 5 📌 2

I can’t quite believe this is real. From the leader of the party whose candidate lost their deposit, no less

27.02.2026 12:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At the time my job meant I was in and around Parliament almost every day and the atmosphere was so weird. Talking about literally anything else felt like playing pretend when there was this huge thing unfolding in the background and absorbing everyone’s thoughts

26.02.2026 10:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A sensitive request: I'm looking to speak *anonymously* to parents or trusted adults who have supported teenage children/relatives through early relationships that showed signs of coercive control or other forms of abuse.

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DM me or email hannahfearn.journalist@gmail.com

25.02.2026 11:06 👍 15 🔁 45 💬 1 📌 2

I can’t do audiobooks because I also need to be doing something with my eyes and so inevitably end up reading something else at the same time and not listening to the audiobook

25.02.2026 09:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How African Governments Responded to the 2025 Aid Shock We examine what African governments actually did or said in response to announcements of aid cuts in 2025; mapping the type, scope, and intensity of government responses, using the previous year as a ...

This is an interesting an informative study on who/how African countries responded to aid cuts. Unfortunately, the countries most dependent on aid, were least able to effectively respond. www.cgdev.org/blog/how-afr...

24.02.2026 22:34 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The Towner gallery is great

24.02.2026 20:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Norman Conquest is one of my favourite history books ever, and I read a lot of them. Not only fascinating in its own right but really eye-opening on how much the U.K. is still shaped by it today

24.02.2026 16:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Very 2026 that you can now pay for a premium delivery service, which means that they promise to deliver it to the location it is actually intended for

24.02.2026 15:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A state so small, that it will fit neatly in your bedroom closet, from where Danny Kruger will be counting your sexual partners, and Matt Goodwin will check you are using each ovulation wisely and sending you a tax surcharge if not.

24.02.2026 13:17 👍 241 🔁 85 💬 13 📌 1