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michaelgoodier.bsky.social
Journalist on the Guardian Data Projects team Visiting lecturer at City St George's London and Brighton Ignore my silly posts
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My story on a new report (by @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social @markpackuk.bsky.social) claiming almost £2m given to candidates in the 2024 general election has “essentially disappeared” from the public’s view of British political campaign finance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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I'm running a little experiment over on X. The poll options are: - less than 50 - 50 to 99 - 100 to 499 - 500+ x.com/gmhales/stat...

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It's not the biggest problem education is facing but at some point the preference of parents and students for coursework and fewer exams is going to collide with the fact that AI probably necessitates a big return to in-person exams

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I FoI'd every uni to find out how many cases of AI cheating they are catching. Experts say it's the tip of the iceberg www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Having learned more about this today, it's very cool and could be a global game-changer for how sources interact safely with journalists. www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

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One of the things Rachel Reeves will be looking at in this weeks spending review is the NHS capital budget. The level of money needed to get buildings and equipment back to a decent standard has more than doubled since 2015/16 - with fatal consequences for patients. My story in the Guardian:

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The Guardian's Secure Messaging tool is an implementation of the CoverDrop protocol, which was invented by researchers at www.cst.cam.ac.uk We have published our code under an Apache 2.0 licence at github.com/guardian/cov... There's a technical paper on how it works at www.coverdrop.org

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Introducing a new tool that allows sources to contact journalists under the cover of the normal activity of a news app. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

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Extraordinary videos of Russian aviation apparently being blown up emerging from Ukraine. Beloye, Digilevo, Olenya, Ivanovo bases amongst those targeted in what appears to be a daring drone attack

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The weird thing about this is that i've noticed more TfL staff checking phones/tickets in the last two weeks (been checked twice on the bus and once on the tube) than in the rest of my lifetime (never)

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Made this for dinner yesterday and it is a fantastic sausage pasta. The dried porcini makes it. (I subbed some good rigatoni I had in my cupboard for the spelt spaghetti) antonio-carluccio.co.uk/recipes/spag...

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The House of Lords watchdog has launched an investigation into a Conservative peer who helped to secure a meeting with a government minister for a Canadian nuclear technology company he was advising. With @robevansgdn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday of The Guardian have won the Paul Foot Award for their "enraging and heartbreaking" investigation into the carer's allowance scandal www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

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And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2025 are... Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday of The Guardian. #PaulFootAward2025 www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

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Truly deserved award for @patrickjbutler.bsky.social and @joshhalliday.bsky.social on their Carer's Allowance Scandal work - you can see the impact and importance their reporting has had here: www.theguardian.com/society/seri...

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Brilliant win by the @theguardian.com’s Josh Halliday and Patrick Butler who won the #paulfootaward for “listening to people who aren’t listened to” on the carers allowance

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The latest in our series on 24-hr slot machine shops. We crunched the numbers and perused the accounts to chart how firms concentrate their shops in the poorest parts of Britain, extracting cash for the benefit of billionaires and Wall St investors. With @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

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I’ve been piecing together this Guardian long read for over a year - about a thoroughly plausible, utterly crooked lawyer who pretended to be the perfect gentleman while he spun a web of deceit. Thanks to @davidedgarwolf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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The crowd in St Peters Square right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOk...

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@mysociety.org please can you put the "View FOI email address" link back on whatdotheyknow? Was a super useful resource 🙏

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NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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My investigation into the Russian Guantanamo: Taganrog, and Russia's network of 29 torture sites for 16,000 Ukrainian detainees with 695 types of torture. Prison reconstruction using 6 detainee testimonies and open source analysis. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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The first part of an investigation by the Guardian and media partners into the disappearance of Viktoriia Roshchyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist, and how Russia is systematically detaining and torturing an estimated 16,000 Ukrainian civilians. From @juliettegarside.bsky.social et al.

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