Matthew Teller

@matthewteller

Writer, broadcaster, journalist, documentary-maker. Mostly on the Middle East. Also Antarctica. BBC News/Radio 4. Travel author. Dog person.

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Joined April 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 25

    God, I love editing. Don’t care much for pictures or video or multimedia. Making words good, that’s what I do. Lucky that I’m bloody good at it. One bit of the BBC just hired me to make their words better. You could too.

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    6 hours ago

    "Palestinian Islamists and nationalists are out of options, out of ideas, and out of luck. The Palestinian public is out of patience and nearly out of hope. That’s a combustible formula..."

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    21 hours ago

    “If only there was some way of knowing why violent crime is heading back to its highest level in a decade” says government who’ve cut police numbers by 20,000.

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  4. 14 hours ago

    Wait, Beirut is Mecca now? I thought Beirut was Paris

    Censorship getting worse but remains a “mecca of freedom” for Arab filmmakers.
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    23 hours ago

    Words I’ve taught my new spellcheck today: rizla caff nuff nuttah slimzee cheef cuzzy ragga raggo mahfouz geeneus shotting riddim vibesy wasteman shithole posho

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    16 hours ago

    Journalism done right. A Nepali newspaper has uncovered why the country experienced crippling power shortages for a decade. The electricity chief was selling cut price supply to industry

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  7. Retweeted
    Apr 3

    Hey! Are you friends with a writer? Did they write something that you loved? Tell them you loved it. Trust me, they'll want to hear it.

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  8. 16 hours ago

    A three-tweet thread that was once about consumer convenience but increasingly feels like it’s an issue of democratic imperative

    Astonishing that in 2018, a full decade after social media blew apart the idea of reading mainly from a single publication, we *still* don’t have a frictionless system of micro-payments to access stories from right across the web 1/
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  9. 17 hours ago

    Barclays Bank on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 1936. Photo by Elia Kahvedjian, see

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  10. 23 hours ago

    My patch. Props to and sincere thanks. We could do more, but this is great news. (CDC=Cherwell District Council, the layer of local government in this bit of north Oxon)

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  11. 24 hours ago

    Must be good for a roundup somewhere

    this... may be the greatest story ever told
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  12. Retweeted
    Apr 3

    I’m an Arab Jew and I love my Muslim neighbors fiercely. In my family’s case, that love goes back 2,500 years (just sayin!). I’m proud to be part of a Jewish community that’s spending Passover outside of Muslim spaces and masjids across NYC to say 💚

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  13. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    Please. My avocado. It is so sad.

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  14. Apr 4

    This really is a remarkable bit of storytelling - can only wish her very well

    How I'm feeling after my MS 'body reboot' - BBC correspondent Caroline Wyatt on her battle with multiple sclerosis -
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  15. Apr 4

    Rather fascinating

    A 3,000-year-old picture of God and his wife depicted by early Jews at Kuntillet Ajrud could rewrite the history of monotheism
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  16. Apr 4

    Proofreading is not an optional extra

    Commonwealth Games program lists England as African nation
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  17. Apr 4

    There are positives to Brexit. It’s just they are invariably massively outweighed by the negatives. In this case 2 factors in importing Australian beef - environmental cost & impact on UK farmers - massively outweigh the benefits. On balance it’s a bad idea. So we shouldn’t do it

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  18. Apr 3

    Phooey

    Mea culpa earlier today I glanced at a tweet & rt about # of murders in London. Didn't take cognisance of Ramadan ref. Once brought to my attention immediately deleted. Apologise profusely for offence caused.
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    Apr 3

    Going to the ? Watch what you say & do in police state of , fans; 5 people arrested for tweets last week & today Danish MP & myself are being deported for raising human rights issues

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    Apr 3

    This is why, ultimately, I'll quit and take some mediocre job doing something I don't particularly like. I'm currently owed about £6k but don't have the money to pay my rent this month.

    How payment on publication is making life a misery for many freelance journalists
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    Apr 2

    How opera is helping homeless people in My piece on (38.23 in to the programme)

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