Our new analysis today shows that despite politicians espousing the need to shift healthcare out of acute hospitals and into services that can help patients avoid emergency hospitalisations or prevent ill health altogether, the £ has not followed their mouths. A thread >>

Poll: are large surveys statistically meaningful, if they're not randomised and have no statistical controls? Please retweet for a larger sample:

What makes Gothic architecture... Gothic? Many things, but one of the most important is the famous flying buttress. And they aren't just for show — here's how the flying buttress revolutionised architecture...

REVEALED: the campaigners who dreamed up the contents of Liz Truss’s mini-budget have given the Conservative Party £35m (Location: 55 Tufton St. Collaboration with Democracy for Sale. Narration by @CarolVorders)

Reform UK plan tax cuts which they say will cost £70bn; however our analysis shows the actual cost will be at least £93bn. And their funding figures are out by £15bn+ All this means Reform UK have a total unfunded cost of at least £38bn - about two Liz Trusses.

This is Richard Feynman. History's most controversial Nobel Prize Winner. His message? If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you do not understand it. Here are some lessons from a spectacularly curious mind:

🧵 You've probably heard this claim - both from @rishisunak and more recently from Nigel Farage MP 👇 UK has leapfrogged others to become the world's fourth biggest exporter! And all after Brexit! Unfortunately the reality is somewhat less impressive than this sounds. Here's why:

🧵THE STRANGE CASE OF THE YAKOV GAKKEL🧵 A thread about the energy story no-one wants to talk about. About how UK companies are helping facilitate Russia, as it earns money to finance its war. And about how the cost of living crisis didn't end quite how you prob thought it did…

This is sick. Barbara Rymell, 91, died after being trapped under a stairlift at Ashley House care home in Somerset on 8 August 2022. Now, Reform UK is passing her off as someone else.

Ofcom has dismissed complaints made about a Channel 4 News undercover investigation, which captured Reform UK volunteers expressing racist, Islamophobic and homophobic views.

But large-scale change is difficult, and creating an effective system is even harder. Over the last five thousand years humanity has essentially been collectively developing and fine-tuning a way of organising time. It may look messy... but it works.

The Colosseum is incredible, but it isn't unique. Because there are over 200 Ancient Roman arenas, on three different continents, many of which held over 50,000 people. And the Romans even built one stadium with a capacity of 150,000...

"Mimetic Architecture" is when buildings are designed to look like something else. Like the infamous National Fisheries Development Board Headquarters in Hyderabad, India. And though it sounds like a silly concept, Mimetic Architecture is more important than you realise...

Important to be aware of and recognise that this is happening in the US, UK and many other target countries in E. Europe and beyond.

Hmmm…… really? Does that seem plausible? Let’s take a look, shall we? 🧵1/9

NEW: we may have passed peak obesity 🎉📈📉🙏 In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.

If you get hired or promoted to lead a new team, Here’s the playbook to run on Week 1:

The Royals make millions in profit each year, but this has always been shrouded in secrecy, until now. A joint Channel 4 Dispatches and The Times and The Sunday Times investigation reveals that the King and Prince William are receiving public money through leasing property to public services like the NHS.

I don't study politics, but I do study culture, and here are some of the signs that a cultural shift has been brewing for years in America that most of the professional political analysts just completely missed. Some of these may seem absurd, but hear me out. 🧵 We'll start

OK Buckle up, here's a thread & a half, really all written just to get it off my own chest but you're welcome along for the ride.... 🧵