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Ben Butcher

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Data Editor at The Telegraph

Data Editor @Telegraph || Formerly fact-checker @BBCRealityCheck and News Analysis || Tweets my views, no one elses

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  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Will Bolton |Albert Tait |Ben Butcher

    "We never travelled when we weren't supposed to. We never did anything we weren't supposed to do. "I was such a neurotic person. When my husband came to visit us in the states, I would make him stay in a room away from us for two weeks. "The first letter I got they just wanted me to pay. They didn't want me to contest it. I was just tenacious. "I was not a criminal. I did everything in good faith.

  • 2 weeks ago | msn.com | George Chesterton |Ben Butcher

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | George Chesterton |Ben Butcher

    High childcare costs and potential parents' lifestyle choices are among the factors leading to a demographic disaster decades in the makingIn Britain today there are many reasons not to start a family. Some subscribe to the "why would I want to bring a child into this terrible world?" cliché. But while doom-mongering has always existed, the soaring cost of housing, raising, entertaining and educating children is new.

  • 2 weeks ago | msn.com | Natasha Leake |Ben Butcher

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 2 weeks ago | msn.com | Natasha Leake |Ben Butcher

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

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Ben Butcher
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11 Apr 25

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RT @meikeeijsberg: 🚨 NEW: The number of Russian drone strikes targeting Ukraine has surged by more than 50 per cent since US-led peace talk…

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1 Apr 25

🚨🧑‍🎓 There has been a 40pc increase in children expelled or suspended for violent behaviour in a single year, our analysis shows Some 25k pupils were excluded in Autumn '23 our analysis shows, including some as young as five - with @poppyeh https://t.co/3jQdvB8Awo https://t.co/HccZP5HH6U