Matthew Dicks CIHCM
@Mattydicks
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Arguing daily that adequate housing should be a universal human right in law! @CardiffCityFC. Proud Dad. Views my own. Over on @mattydicks.bsky.social
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Joined April 2009
I'm off to a place where rational objective fact is still the basis of discussion and debate!
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Well looks like @MoonpigUK has the worst customer servcie I think I have ever experienced......in thet they have none. Seems there isn't a way of contacting them about an order that hasn't turned up. None of the options on their "contact customer servcie" page work!
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A reminder. Only 6.9% of people in Wales were born overseas. Just 2.9% of people in Caerphilly were born overseas. Whereas 38% of medical consultants in Wales were born overseas. Immigrants are not holding our NHS back, they are propping it up.
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White Paper stops short of right to adequate housing
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Welsh Government has published a long-awaited White Paper setting out a ‘progressive path towards achieving housing adequacy for the people of Wales’. But the consultation document falls short of...
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Reform UK are pushing immigration hard as an issue in the Caerphilly by-election. Just for context, Caerphilly has the THE LOWEST, immigration rate of all Wales' 22 councils. 97.1% of people there were born in the UK. Only Cardiff and Newport have move that 10% born
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It feels timely & appropriate to post this magnificent beast ... the ultimate vox pop! ✊️🫡🤜🤛
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Nigel Farage today opened his 'Lawless Britain' press conference saying he now rejects the Crime Survey of England & Wales - the only validated crime level measurement. The 35,000-households Crime Survey is fatal to anyone wanting to present a picture of immigrant-driven crime
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What we are watching is Trump’s tariff-induced crash turning into a Truss-style fiscal crisis. The collapse in US government long bonds, Treasuries, is startling, scary. It is precisely the opposite of what Trump and his advisers expected and wanted. It partly reflects
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Go On Bellars!
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The most profound and disturbing work of drama I've ever seen! I hope this pushes the issue of how our young people interact with, and are influenced by, bad actors and damaging content on social media further to the top of the political agenda! https://t.co/lorHY0eXat
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When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?
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Dan Snow, "If you're worried about the rules based order, it turns out getting an internationalist lawyer in charge of your country, Keir Starmer, is the right man for the job" "He's been sober, he's said the right thing, been strong about Ukraine" "Not annoying the Trump
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Two tier policing? Is it when one set of protestors who block roads are forcebly removed by police and sent to prison, while another set(in tractors) who also block roads, aren't?
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Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’? BBC Verify carried out extensive searches of HO guidance across that period & found no evidence
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"These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭." Andrew Norfolk, who exposed the grooming gang scandal in 2011, condemns the reuse of the abuse for political gain. @maitlis | @lewis_goodall
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an Elon Musk cultist repeats his claim that a national economy is like a household, and if you don't have enough money you have to just massively cut spending. Just as he thinks he's made a brilliant point, he's destroyed by Yanis Varoufakis:
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