RT @patrickjbutler: Revealed: nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs, as overspend debt set to grow by £2b….

RT @patrickjbutler: "It was all meant to be so different:" spiralling demand, shrinking budgets and policy inertia - why England's SEND sys….

"The accounting of US political giving is complicated and opaque. " if you want to see how we did it you can read our methodology (half way through the article). Kudos due to. @hernandesraph @LaurenAratani, Will Craft and @Tural_Ahmedzade.

"The tide of reversals is indicative of an ideological shift happening in Silicon Valley. Big tech long eschewed Washington but has become increasingly involved in politics as it has coalesced around crypto and AI.".

The Harris/Biden campaigns were attracting more tech money earlier in the campaign. but those donations were overtaken in June and were eclipsed closer to the election.

Tech millionaires and billionaires poured almost $400m into either side of the US election campaign. more than half that total was from Musk to Trump.

RT @Ashley_J_Kirk: Interesting trends from counties that swung to Trump:.- Dem strongholds didn't hold, Reps' largely did.- Ethnically dive….

Great work as ever by the apparently indefatigable: @craftworksxyz, @alex_jay_clark, Andrew Witherspoon, @Ashley_J_Kirk, @LuMcMick, Phil McMahon + design by Harry Fischer.

What just happened? Here's the piece you need to make sense of "the blue shift" that never was.

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1-in-8 of the first 500 people charged over the UK's summer riots were minors: yet @JoshHalliday's reporting from youth courts indicates very few share openly racist or anti-immigration views. So why did they riot?.

And a hat tip to @smfrogers for the Reading the Riots data project he led in 2011:

Credit whre it's due: this was a HUGE effort from a lot of very talented colleagues @C_AguilarGarcia @michaelgoodier @alex_jay_clark @olivialeejourno (irl) Lucy Swan @_zaraqureshi @zekehuntergreen @Tural_Ahmedzade @AaronSharp.

We found clear trends in key deprivation, self-reported health, qualification level and the proportion of people not in employment. what we didn't find were any strong correlations in terms of migrant/asylum populations

Among our findings was that, although some DID travel, this was not riot tourism: analysis of the home addresses provided by those charged found that 3/4 lived within a 5-mile radius of the riot location (excludes those charged with online offences)

Local. Deprived. In bad health. Out of work. Our deep dive into the characteristics of the people behind the UK's summer riots provide the first comprehensive picture of the alleged rioters.

RT @LuMcMick: My modelling for The Guardian revealed that Conservative vote share was hit hardest in Brexit-voting constituencies, as writt….

RT @C_AguilarGarcia: Our analysis - after a lot of work and coffee- with @Ashley_J_Kirk @PorcelinaD.@Alex_J_Clark. .

RT @PippaCrerar: This is an absolutely CRACKING piece of work from @guardian data team showing how Labour won a landslide general election….

RT @Ashley_J_Kirk: A record Lab majority, but with support down in several regions and dozens of seats relying on a split right-wing vote,….