Hardeep Matharu
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
Journalist. Speaker. Writer. Interviewer
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture
Editor-in-Chief of the independent UK publication Byline Times
[email protected] / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
Curious explorer of the forces that shape us. Identities. Politics. Media. Culture
Editor-in-Chief of the independent UK publication Byline Times
[email protected] / hardeepmatharu.wordpress.com
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You've heard about the "loneliness epidemic." But what's really driving today's profound alienation problem? How do we rebuild connection?
On Feb 2nd, Byline Times cracks open THE LURE OF LONELINESS at the Cockpit Theatre.
Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
On Feb 2nd, Byline Times cracks open THE LURE OF LONELINESS at the Cockpit Theatre.
Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
January 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM
You've heard about the "loneliness epidemic." But what's really driving today's profound alienation problem? How do we rebuild connection?
On Feb 2nd, Byline Times cracks open THE LURE OF LONELINESS at the Cockpit Theatre.
Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
On Feb 2nd, Byline Times cracks open THE LURE OF LONELINESS at the Cockpit Theatre.
Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
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Grateful for the kind words, and to @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social for running the piece 🙏
@karendobres.bsky.social
I love your article in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social -
Football's Familiar Fear of the Frisson of Female Sexuality.
Fascinating.
(Coming from Preston, I know of Dick Kerr Ladies of Preston football team. Commemorated in Preston's Moor Park).
I love your article in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social -
Football's Familiar Fear of the Frisson of Female Sexuality.
Fascinating.
(Coming from Preston, I know of Dick Kerr Ladies of Preston football team. Commemorated in Preston's Moor Park).
January 27, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Grateful for the kind words, and to @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social for running the piece 🙏
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Ok- it’s Sunday relax- put phone to one side- try to make sense of a nonsensical World. Hopefully The Observer UK. Byline Times and Private Eye will do the job after a sip of tea.
January 25, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Ok- it’s Sunday relax- put phone to one side- try to make sense of a nonsensical World. Hopefully The Observer UK. Byline Times and Private Eye will do the job after a sip of tea.
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The Byline Times print edition is by far the best European newspaper.
🟨 Print Edition — Drowning in Denial
As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads
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As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads
🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/drowning-in-denial/
Drowning in Denial – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads
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January 23, 2026 at 10:45 AM
The Byline Times print edition is by far the best European newspaper.
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Get your copy in shops now. Includes our interview with Zack Polanski and a feature from me on how the Green Party plans to defeat Labour in its 'Green Wall' this year
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January 23, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Get your copy in shops now. Includes our interview with Zack Polanski and a feature from me on how the Green Party plans to defeat Labour in its 'Green Wall' this year
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Got this & a brew. Bliss.
January 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Got this & a brew. Bliss.
"I'm one of the few frontline politicians who can say I've never taken money from private healthcare, oil & gas, gambling firms, arms trade. It gives you a different way to be a politician & freedom to speak"
We meet Green Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the new Byline Times magazine out now 👇
We meet Green Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the new Byline Times magazine out now 👇
January 19, 2026 at 12:47 PM
"I'm one of the few frontline politicians who can say I've never taken money from private healthcare, oil & gas, gambling firms, arms trade. It gives you a different way to be a politician & freedom to speak"
We meet Green Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the new Byline Times magazine out now 👇
We meet Green Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the new Byline Times magazine out now 👇
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🌿The Lure of Loneliness – An Evening Discussion with Jay Griffiths, @iainoverton.bsky.social , @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social
⏲️2 February 2026 7:30 pm
📌The Cockpit Theatre, London NW8 8EH
Tickets: thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
⏲️2 February 2026 7:30 pm
📌The Cockpit Theatre, London NW8 8EH
Tickets: thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 PM
🌿The Lure of Loneliness – An Evening Discussion with Jay Griffiths, @iainoverton.bsky.social , @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social
⏲️2 February 2026 7:30 pm
📌The Cockpit Theatre, London NW8 8EH
Tickets: thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
⏲️2 February 2026 7:30 pm
📌The Cockpit Theatre, London NW8 8EH
Tickets: thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
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🎄Sanctuary
Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times
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Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times
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Editorial - Sanctuary – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
It seems quintessentially English. Though most of our subscribers are not London-based, and we have a readership from across the world, Southwark Cathedral is in effect the parish church for the area ...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🎄Sanctuary
Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times
subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/81/e...
Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times
subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/81/e...
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Fantastic that a long interview with @ajsecor.bsky.social and I is the cover story for the January issue of Byline Times - was a pleasure to talk to Hardeep and Peter about the ideas in the The Politics of Feeling! @bylinetimes.bsky.social
@peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
@peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Fantastic that a long interview with @ajsecor.bsky.social and I is the cover story for the January issue of Byline Times - was a pleasure to talk to Hardeep and Peter about the ideas in the The Politics of Feeling! @bylinetimes.bsky.social
@peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
@peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
"Fun & joy are very powerful political forces & not ones the left are terribly used to dealing with"
The final print edition of Byline Times may be my favourite of the year. What is the 'politics of feeling' & why does it matter?
Plus 'A Red Top Christmas Carol' with a Mr Murdoch & his 3 Spirits 👇
The final print edition of Byline Times may be my favourite of the year. What is the 'politics of feeling' & why does it matter?
Plus 'A Red Top Christmas Carol' with a Mr Murdoch & his 3 Spirits 👇
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"Fun & joy are very powerful political forces & not ones the left are terribly used to dealing with"
The final print edition of Byline Times may be my favourite of the year. What is the 'politics of feeling' & why does it matter?
Plus 'A Red Top Christmas Carol' with a Mr Murdoch & his 3 Spirits 👇
The final print edition of Byline Times may be my favourite of the year. What is the 'politics of feeling' & why does it matter?
Plus 'A Red Top Christmas Carol' with a Mr Murdoch & his 3 Spirits 👇
"Have I ever tried to take it out on any individual on the basis of where they're from? No. I have never directly really tried to go and hurt anybody".
If the press is giving Farage such a platform it must, as ITV News has done, scrutinise. That this isn't being reported prominently is astonishing.
If the press is giving Farage such a platform it must, as ITV News has done, scrutinise. That this isn't being reported prominently is astonishing.
Nigel Farage responds to racism claims saying he never ‘tried to hurt anybody’
Reform leader denies racist or antisemitic behaviour ‘with intent’ at school, but says he can’t remember everything from 49 years ago
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"Have I ever tried to take it out on any individual on the basis of where they're from? No. I have never directly really tried to go and hurt anybody".
If the press is giving Farage such a platform it must, as ITV News has done, scrutinise. That this isn't being reported prominently is astonishing.
If the press is giving Farage such a platform it must, as ITV News has done, scrutinise. That this isn't being reported prominently is astonishing.
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Byline Times latest edition front page.
Always a good well balanced well researched read.
Always a good well balanced well researched read.
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Byline Times latest edition front page.
Always a good well balanced well researched read.
Always a good well balanced well researched read.
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If you're still looking for good writing and journalism as the legacy newspapers continue their slide into the ooze, you could do a lot worse than sign up to Byline Times. This is just the most exceptionally good writing from @peterjukes.bsky.social ...
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From Underground Man to Internet Man: Apocalyptic, Cleansing Violence – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
In 1976, Peter Jukes wanted to be Travis Bickle. A decade later, he realised the Taxi Driver anti-hero was a psychopath. Now he suspects Bickle’s dangerous saviour complex underpins the architecture o...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
If you're still looking for good writing and journalism as the legacy newspapers continue their slide into the ooze, you could do a lot worse than sign up to Byline Times. This is just the most exceptionally good writing from @peterjukes.bsky.social ...
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Revelling in the latest edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social
From the BBC to migration, Islamophobia to disability, our editor in chief @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social has done an amazing job tying up the Carousel of Scapegoats with the co-morbidity of current politics ➡️ subscribe.bylinetimes.com
From the BBC to migration, Islamophobia to disability, our editor in chief @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social has done an amazing job tying up the Carousel of Scapegoats with the co-morbidity of current politics ➡️ subscribe.bylinetimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Revelling in the latest edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social
From the BBC to migration, Islamophobia to disability, our editor in chief @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social has done an amazing job tying up the Carousel of Scapegoats with the co-morbidity of current politics ➡️ subscribe.bylinetimes.com
From the BBC to migration, Islamophobia to disability, our editor in chief @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social has done an amazing job tying up the Carousel of Scapegoats with the co-morbidity of current politics ➡️ subscribe.bylinetimes.com
When politics can provide no real solutions for people's lives, welcome to 'The Carousel of Scapegoats': distracting, psychological projection to make them feel 'better' – because the lives of 'others' can be made worse
New Byline Times print edition available in shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇
New Byline Times print edition available in shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
When politics can provide no real solutions for people's lives, welcome to 'The Carousel of Scapegoats': distracting, psychological projection to make them feel 'better' – because the lives of 'others' can be made worse
New Byline Times print edition available in shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇
New Byline Times print edition available in shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇
Outgoing BBC DG Tim Davie says the corporation needs to "fight for our journalism". It also needs to fight for its independence. The two are linked. Davie, a former Tory councillor candidate, has inadequately fought for reporting that actually scrutinises rather than simply 'reflects' back opinions.
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Outgoing BBC DG Tim Davie says the corporation needs to "fight for our journalism". It also needs to fight for its independence. The two are linked. Davie, a former Tory councillor candidate, has inadequately fought for reporting that actually scrutinises rather than simply 'reflects' back opinions.
The thing about the moment we are in is we have been here before. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, the Johnson years, and now with Farage's ascent. Our established press has played a role in why we have got to this point in British politics. What's happening at the BBC now was an inevitability
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The thing about the moment we are in is we have been here before. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, the Johnson years, and now with Farage's ascent. Our established press has played a role in why we have got to this point in British politics. What's happening at the BBC now was an inevitability
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TONIGHT at The Cockpit! Byline Times is deep diving into the gnarly Lure of Class - conscious and otherwise. Ripe for discussion with all the public schoolboy shenanigans at the Beeb currently @bylinetimes.bsky.social
www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
TONIGHT at The Cockpit! Byline Times is deep diving into the gnarly Lure of Class - conscious and otherwise. Ripe for discussion with all the public schoolboy shenanigans at the Beeb currently @bylinetimes.bsky.social
www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
A key victory in Trump's road to power in America was successfully branding the majority of its established press as "fake news". Now, he is bringing this across the pond to the BBC – where these same tactics are favoured by prominent politicians and media outlets on the right. A dangerous moment.
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A key victory in Trump's road to power in America was successfully branding the majority of its established press as "fake news". Now, he is bringing this across the pond to the BBC – where these same tactics are favoured by prominent politicians and media outlets on the right. A dangerous moment.
As always, the story is how and why the media – particularly prominent broadcasters such as the BBC – are making certain choices as to which individuals, ideas, and views are platformed and how these are framed to the public.
The path ahead will be shaped by such decisions. The water we swim in...
The path ahead will be shaped by such decisions. The water we swim in...
So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
As always, the story is how and why the media – particularly prominent broadcasters such as the BBC – are making certain choices as to which individuals, ideas, and views are platformed and how these are framed to the public.
The path ahead will be shaped by such decisions. The water we swim in...
The path ahead will be shaped by such decisions. The water we swim in...
"Needless to say, copies of the Byline Times special issue have been circulating widely this week among the ranks of anti-Reform parties in the corridors of Westminster. The Gill case was also the main thrust of Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey's PMQs questions"
Having an impact – outside of the system 👇
Having an impact – outside of the system 👇
With a little help from Bob Dylan…
Why does Bob Dylan’s masterpiece, ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’, keep playing in Paul Connew’s head as he tries to review the state of Britain’s political, media and public opinion landscape?
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October 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"Needless to say, copies of the Byline Times special issue have been circulating widely this week among the ranks of anti-Reform parties in the corridors of Westminster. The Gill case was also the main thrust of Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey's PMQs questions"
Having an impact – outside of the system 👇
Having an impact – outside of the system 👇
Independent investigative journalism that truly sits outside of the established system allows the media-political class itself to be scrutinised. How can we understand the world we live in if we won't ask difficult questions of those framing it?
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Support Byline Times: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Independent investigative journalism that truly sits outside of the established system allows the media-political class itself to be scrutinised. How can we understand the world we live in if we won't ask difficult questions of those framing it?
Support Byline Times: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Support Byline Times: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
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Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism
October 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism
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Worth a read
Bottom line we all need a sense of community
Doesn’t necessarily has to be rooted in hate of others
“Immigrants are the scapegoats they need. Everyone else just needs some humanity and help. Otherwise, we will remain strangers in a strange land -foreign to ourselves and to each other.”
Bottom line we all need a sense of community
Doesn’t necessarily has to be rooted in hate of others
“Immigrants are the scapegoats they need. Everyone else just needs some humanity and help. Otherwise, we will remain strangers in a strange land -foreign to ourselves and to each other.”
🔴 How Our Politicians Created an 'Island of Strangers' So They Don't Have to Make Our Lives Any Better
"By vowing to tackle our 'island of strangers' through immigration, Starmer keeps us trapped on it – by not offering solutions to the real reasons for our estrangement" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
"By vowing to tackle our 'island of strangers' through immigration, Starmer keeps us trapped on it – by not offering solutions to the real reasons for our estrangement" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better
By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic polit...
bylinetimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Worth a read
Bottom line we all need a sense of community
Doesn’t necessarily has to be rooted in hate of others
“Immigrants are the scapegoats they need. Everyone else just needs some humanity and help. Otherwise, we will remain strangers in a strange land -foreign to ourselves and to each other.”
Bottom line we all need a sense of community
Doesn’t necessarily has to be rooted in hate of others
“Immigrants are the scapegoats they need. Everyone else just needs some humanity and help. Otherwise, we will remain strangers in a strange land -foreign to ourselves and to each other.”