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Matthew Lesh

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Matthew Lesh

@matthewlesh

Country Manager (UK), @tweetfreshwater. Public Policy Fellow, @iealondon. Columnist, @CityAM. Fellow, @ASI. Author, AustraliaDivided.com.

London

Joined July 2008

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Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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
@matthewlesh
Nov 4, 2021
An Insulate Britain roadblock has stopped a lorry carrying insulation
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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
@matthewlesh
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.
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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 ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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
From gov.uk
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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...
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
Nov 20, 2019
Taxing 👏 the 👏 “rich” 👏 means 👏 entrepreneurs 👏 leave 👏 the 👏 country 👏 taking 👏 jobs 👏 and 👏opportunities 👏 with 👏 them 👏
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Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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.
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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.
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
Jul 11, 2020
Al Fresco London needs to be made permanent.
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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.
Matthew Lesh
@matthewlesh
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
@matthewlesh
Dec 23, 2021
I miss the time when our lives weren’t ruled by daily hospital admission numbers