Charlie Matthews
Moderately online geriatric millennial. Political strategy consultant mainly in the development / humanitarian sector.
Based in Brighton, UK
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- Reposted by Charlie MatthewsNothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.
- Reform UK says it would re-impose two-child benefit cap for most families to fund £3bn support package for pubs - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- So pleased to see he got his hat and backpack back - the detail that he was asking for them absolutely broke me the other day
- Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
- I realise this may seem like a sci fi dream but I would love it if one day someone invented a printer that worked
- Reposted by Charlie Matthews"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
- Reposted by Charlie MatthewsA thought: what's happening in the US shows that the somewheres/anywheres thing is bollocks. Most of the people mobilising, Goodhart would call Anywheres. And they're mobilising specifically to protect their neighbours and their neighbourhoods.
- Reposted by Charlie Matthews📢 JOB ALERT! Postdoc opportunity in Political Behaviour & Political Economy (UKRI‑funded) - Please do share with anyone who might be a great fit. If you’re interested or would like to know more, please feel free to get in touch!! jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Charlie MatthewsDespite the focus on small boats, most refugees stay in poor countries. I went to Sudan, where nearly 1/3 of the population has left their homes, to see how the UN is coping with Trump's cuts and the west's retreat. Sudan is a brutal, forgotten war. Please do read: as.ft.com/r/7db76b9a-8...
- Reposted by Charlie MatthewsI know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Charlie MatthewsThis intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.
- Calling any Parisian locals or frequent visitors - I'm looking for recommendations for a fun/ atmospheric - but not crazy expensive - restaurant in Montmartre or Pigalle. TIA!
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- Currently looking up “milk chocolate coin” in my calorie counting app, which says all you need to know about how the new years diet is going
- Reposted by Charlie Matthews**FT GRAD SCHEME** applications are now open. Incredible opportunity for young wannabe hacks. Spread the word: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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- Reposted by Charlie MatthewsAnd honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.
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- wtf are we doing here, guys www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- I’m sorry but it is just not supposed to be this warm in November
- Reposted by Charlie MatthewsCreative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
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- I am a big Mamdani fan but honestly I feel like Brad Lander is the (other) breakout star of this election
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- When fiscal circumstances allow
- I cannot quite get over the level of self delusion here. Get her off the road before she kills someone!
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