👤 Matt Spivey

5 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
5
2026-08-16 – 2026-10-10
Claims per article
19
96 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,033
characters
Writes for BBC News.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

World
60%
Politics
40%
Most-tagged topics
BritishIranLondonBJPCJPCTPCounter Terrorism PolicingDelhi

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.15 (centre).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-28 · BBC News · Politics
Five men arrested in RAF Fairford incident released on police bail
29 outlets covered this event
2026-10-10 · BBC News · Politics
'Cockroach' group leaders among hundreds detained in Delhi protest
12 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-10-02 · BBC News · World
British paratrooper killed by explosion in Ukraine, coroner rules
2 outlets covered this event
2026-09-28 · BBC News · World
Judge imposes £100,000 bail condition on Rwanda genocide accused
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-08-16 · BBC News · World
Qatar denies capturing three Iranian pilots after downing fighter jets
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right

What they said would happen

2026-09-28 · BBC News
Judge imposes £100,000 bail condition on Rwanda genocide accused
🔮 - Published A man accused of offences relating to the 1994 Rwanda genocide will remain in custody unless he pays the court a £100,000 guarantee. Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajinya, 65, was allegedly a "leader" or "supervisor" of violent acts carried out by others and is the first person in the UK to be charged over the genocide. assertive
2026-09-28 · BBC News
Five men arrested in RAF Fairford incident released on police bail
🔮 Three of the men live in Westminster, one in Camden and another in Willesden, police said, and they are aged between 23 and 25. A farmer who called 999 to report the three white vans in the village of Whelford, which lies directly east of the base, told the BBC it was "pure luck" that she spotted them. assertive
2026-10-10 · BBC News
'Cockroach' group leaders among hundreds detained in Delhi protest
🔮 The group said its founder Abhijeet Dipke, who began the movement in May after India's Chief Justice likened some jobless young people to "cockroaches", was detained with other leaders shortly after landing in Delhi. assertive
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