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Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
Country Manager (UK), @tweetfreshwater. Public Policy Fellow, @iealondon. Columnist, @CityAM. Fellow, @ASI. Author, AustraliaDivided.com.
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Feb 22, 2024
    🚨📈📉 NEW GRAPH: Inflation has risen by 80% since 2000. Highly regulated products like 💡 electricity, 🏘️ housing, and 👪 childcare have had rapid price increases. But... competitive and innovative markets like 📷cameras,👗 clothing, 🐻 toys have had price decreases.
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Nov 4, 2021
    An Insulate Britain roadblock has stopped a lorry carrying insulation
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Jul 30, 2025
    The Online Safety Act’s age-gating is live — delivering mass censorship, huge privacy risks, and a surge in VPNs. Critics? Branded pedos by the Secretary of State. None of this is a surprise. And it’s just the beginning. Here’s what's happening and to expect next… 🧵
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Dec 28, 2020
    The biggest untold story of 2020 is that Moderna took just 48 hours in Jan to develop a 95% effective vaccine. It then took 11 months for vaccinations to begin — largely because of huge regulatory burdens. Millions have died as a result. We cannot ever wait this long again.
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    Matthew Lesh
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    May 27, 2021
    Jenny Harries has been put in charge of the organisation meant to prevent future pandemics and replace Public Health England. Let’s take a quick look at her record during Covid-19 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Apr 9, 2022
    The United Kingdom is radically liberalising trade with Ukraine — removing tariffs on all imports and reducing regulatory barriers. A practical way to help Ukraine recover. Only possible because the UK left the European Union.
    Prime Minister pledges UK’s unwavering support to Ukraine on visit to Kyiv: 9 April 2022
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Jan 31, 2020
    “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice. But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off,” St John’s College principal bursar Adrew Parker tells students demanding divestment from oil companies.
    thetimes.com
    Professor at St John’s College, Oxford, turns oil row into a heated debate
    How do you respond when placard-waving students occupy your 15th-century quadrangle and refuse to leave until you sell the college’s shares in oil companies? As this is Oxford, naturally you present...
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Nov 20, 2019
    Taxing 👏 the 👏 “rich” 👏 means 👏 entrepreneurs 👏 leave 👏 the 👏 country 👏 taking 👏 jobs 👏 and 👏opportunities 👏 with 👏 them 👏
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Mar 15, 2020
    People need to stop posting images of empty shelves. Most supermarkets continue to be stocked with most goods most of the time. There aren’t food shortages, just people buying quicker than supermarkets can be restocked. We’ve got 99 problems, but shortages ain’t one.
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Feb 19, 2021
    Germany is phasing out nuclear power next year — but coal will not be phased out till 2038. A stark reminder that anti-nuclear activism is almost inevitably pro-coal and pro-emissions.
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Jul 11, 2020
    Al Fresco London needs to be made permanent.
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Nov 15, 2020
    The Crown is an important reminder of how Thatcher took on the inept establishment, revolutionised the country from top to bottom, and delivered decades of subsequent prosperity. Quite refreshing.
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Jan 19, 2023
    Jacinda Ardern’s resignation is smart but selfish — it deprives Kiwis the opportunity to turf her out, as polls suggest. The fawning international chattering class will never understand her unpopularity.
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    Matthew Lesh
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    Dec 23, 2021
    I miss the time when our lives weren’t ruled by daily hospital admission numbers