Matthew B
@matthewbroome.bsky.social
Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis
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New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis.
We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis.
We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.
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Lots of good stuff in the Budget, but bad news for graduates.
Luckily, it's not like Labour is relying on the votes of young university educated professionals...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
Luckily, it's not like Labour is relying on the votes of young university educated professionals...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax
The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax
www.newstatesman.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Lots of good stuff in the Budget, but bad news for graduates.
Luckily, it's not like Labour is relying on the votes of young university educated professionals...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
Luckily, it's not like Labour is relying on the votes of young university educated professionals...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
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MY ANALYSIS: The budget has averted an immediate crisis for Labour – but the danger is not over yet www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The budget has averted an immediate crisis for Labour – but the danger is not over yet
Sense of relief among many Labour MPs but chancellor’s broad mix of measures leaves room for things to go wrong
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
MY ANALYSIS: The budget has averted an immediate crisis for Labour – but the danger is not over yet www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Yes, it's the new hot-off-the-edit Politics Weekly, in which me, @pippacrerar.bsky.social & @kiranstacey.bsky.social take the budget to pieces and ask (and answer) all those pressing questions podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
The budget: Labour’s big tax and spend gamble
Podcast Episode · Politics Weekly UK · 26/11/2025 · 28m
podcasts.apple.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Yes, it's the new hot-off-the-edit Politics Weekly, in which me, @pippacrerar.bsky.social & @kiranstacey.bsky.social take the budget to pieces and ask (and answer) all those pressing questions podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Please! My dog. She is very smol
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Please! My dog. She is very smol
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🆕 SPOILER ALERT - Unpicking the Budget 📈
The good stuff
The less good stuff
The economic rationale
The political consequences
Balance, humour, @pimlicat.bsky.social , @sturdyalex.bsky.social & top economist Vicky Pryce.
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The good stuff
The less good stuff
The economic rationale
The political consequences
Balance, humour, @pimlicat.bsky.social , @sturdyalex.bsky.social & top economist Vicky Pryce.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/05mP...
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Unpicking the most-leaked Budget in history, with Vicky Pryce
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 26/11/2025 · 1h 18m
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November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🆕 SPOILER ALERT - Unpicking the Budget 📈
The good stuff
The less good stuff
The economic rationale
The political consequences
Balance, humour, @pimlicat.bsky.social , @sturdyalex.bsky.social & top economist Vicky Pryce.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/05mP...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
The good stuff
The less good stuff
The economic rationale
The political consequences
Balance, humour, @pimlicat.bsky.social , @sturdyalex.bsky.social & top economist Vicky Pryce.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/05mP...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Foolishly watched @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social this evening to catch up on the budget - so back to front, not talking about people and society but about markets and polls. We forget what the economy is for
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Foolishly watched @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social this evening to catch up on the budget - so back to front, not talking about people and society but about markets and polls. We forget what the economy is for
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The World of Yesterday has been published by Pushkin Press, translated by Anthea Bell.
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The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig | 9781805331155 | Pushkin Press
Stefan Zweig's seminal memoir recalls the golden age of pre-war Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall. Through the story of his
pushkinpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The World of Yesterday has been published by Pushkin Press, translated by Anthea Bell.
pushkinpress.com/book/the-wor...
cc @matthewbroome.bsky.social
pushkinpress.com/book/the-wor...
cc @matthewbroome.bsky.social
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My copy of the German edition of Ian Hacking's "Rewriting the Soul. Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory". An important book for me when I was writing my thesis.
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My copy of the German edition of Ian Hacking's "Rewriting the Soul. Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory". An important book for me when I was writing my thesis.
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🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A real President ……….
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A real President ……….
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
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You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:
Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction
Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...
www.routledge.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
You can now preview the book, which means you can look and search inside, and I think read the acknowledgements (the most personal part of it by far) and the preface - there's a 'preview book' button below the cover:
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"Experts in education, psychology and disaster response stressed the need not just to confront the crisis in the short term but consider the situation three, five, ten years into the future. The government didn’t want to listen."
Thoughts on the Covid Inquiry
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
Thoughts on the Covid Inquiry
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
How the Covid Inquiry forgot the children
Political point-scoring is obscuring the real lessons
www.newstatesman.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Experts in education, psychology and disaster response stressed the need not just to confront the crisis in the short term but consider the situation three, five, ten years into the future. The government didn’t want to listen."
Thoughts on the Covid Inquiry
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
Thoughts on the Covid Inquiry
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
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NEW: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed at the Old Bailey for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP. Full story 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches
Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW: Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed at the Old Bailey for 10 and a half years for taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia when he was an MEP. Full story 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qmul.bsky.social
The East London College, Queen Mary's forerunner institution, was a technical and recreative institute, also known as the People's Palace
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
The East London College, Queen Mary's forerunner institution, was a technical and recreative institute, also known as the People's Palace
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qmul.bsky.social
The East London College, Queen Mary's forerunner institution, was a technical and recreative institute, also known as the People's Palace
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
The East London College, Queen Mary's forerunner institution, was a technical and recreative institute, also known as the People's Palace
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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🚨Weekly Wrap-Up🚨
As the Epstein walls close in on Trump, the President pulls a U-turn and says he wants the release of files he tried to suppress. How will they be redacted, and to save whom? @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social discuss the week's big stories ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
As the Epstein walls close in on Trump, the President pulls a U-turn and says he wants the release of files he tried to suppress. How will they be redacted, and to save whom? @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social discuss the week's big stories ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🚨Weekly Wrap-Up🚨
As the Epstein walls close in on Trump, the President pulls a U-turn and says he wants the release of files he tried to suppress. How will they be redacted, and to save whom? @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social discuss the week's big stories ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
As the Epstein walls close in on Trump, the President pulls a U-turn and says he wants the release of files he tried to suppress. How will they be redacted, and to save whom? @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @nndroid.bsky.social discuss the week's big stories ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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New on the blog today, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann).
An eye-opening window into the uncertain existence of a family of German refugees, forced to leave their homeland for political reasons. #GermanLitMonth 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...
An eye-opening window into the uncertain existence of a family of German refugees, forced to leave their homeland for political reasons. #GermanLitMonth 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann)
Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I lo…
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November 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann).
An eye-opening window into the uncertain existence of a family of German refugees, forced to leave their homeland for political reasons. #GermanLitMonth 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...
An eye-opening window into the uncertain existence of a family of German refugees, forced to leave their homeland for political reasons. #GermanLitMonth 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/c...
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The house was very quiet, and the fog - we are in November now - pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.
E. M. Forster, Howards End
E. M. Forster, Howards End
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The house was very quiet, and the fog - we are in November now - pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.
E. M. Forster, Howards End
E. M. Forster, Howards End
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This is Cole. He is a deaf service dog at Dr. William Mennies Elementary School. He just turned 9, and all of his students learned sign language to sing him happy birthday at a massive party. 14/10 for all (IG: colethedeafdog)
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is Cole. He is a deaf service dog at Dr. William Mennies Elementary School. He just turned 9, and all of his students learned sign language to sing him happy birthday at a massive party. 14/10 for all (IG: colethedeafdog)
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On #WorldPhilosophyDay binge on all 11 videos at the Philosophy Garden and think about art, political disagreement, conspiracy theories, epistemic injustice and so much more! youtube.com/playlist?lis... #philsky #philosophyforeveryone
The Philosophy Garden videos - YouTube
Short animated videos promoting reflection and discussion on timely problems affecting our society. Suitable for children and young people.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
On #WorldPhilosophyDay binge on all 11 videos at the Philosophy Garden and think about art, political disagreement, conspiracy theories, epistemic injustice and so much more! youtube.com/playlist?lis... #philsky #philosophyforeveryone
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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.
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an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
an unearthly, formless, chance-like apparition of life
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Please join us for a IMH hybrid Seminar event on 10 December at 13.00, when Dr Rosa Ritunnano will be joining us [hybrid event: zoom and LT1(G16) 52PR]. Further details and to register please follow the link or scan the QR code bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Please join us for a IMH hybrid Seminar event on 10 December at 13.00, when Dr Rosa Ritunnano will be joining us [hybrid event: zoom and LT1(G16) 52PR]. Further details and to register please follow the link or scan the QR code bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...