Matt Cross
@matt-cx.bsky.social
Interested in art, music, the environment, NCFC 🔰and a ton of other stuff. Man of Kent living in Norwich. Views my own.
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Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
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Muttley gets his medal
December 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Muttley gets his medal
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UK Music has surveyed music creators on their experiences of touring the EU following Brexit. And the picture is still bad and is getting worse.🚨
Of those affected by Brexit, 95% experienced a decrease in earnings, up 8% from 87% in 2023.
https://bit.ly/442wvEI
Of those affected by Brexit, 95% experienced a decrease in earnings, up 8% from 87% in 2023.
https://bit.ly/442wvEI
EU Touring: Impact of Brexit Worsening, Says UK Music Report
02.12.2025: The impact of Brexit on EU touring for UK creators is getting worse, a new survey featured in UK Music’s This Is Music report has revealed. Our This Is Music report into the economic…
www.ukmusic.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
UK Music has surveyed music creators on their experiences of touring the EU following Brexit. And the picture is still bad and is getting worse.🚨
Of those affected by Brexit, 95% experienced a decrease in earnings, up 8% from 87% in 2023.
https://bit.ly/442wvEI
Of those affected by Brexit, 95% experienced a decrease in earnings, up 8% from 87% in 2023.
https://bit.ly/442wvEI
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In the Hot Seat | Santa vs Father Christmas – where did they originate from? 🎅
UEA’s Christmas expert, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Thomas Ruys Smith, unwraps the surprising history behind Santa🎄
#ChristmasHistory #SantaClaus #FatherChristmas #UEAResearch
UEA’s Christmas expert, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Thomas Ruys Smith, unwraps the surprising history behind Santa🎄
#ChristmasHistory #SantaClaus #FatherChristmas #UEAResearch
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In the Hot Seat | Santa vs Father Christmas – where did they originate from? 🎅
UEA’s Christmas expert, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Thomas Ruys Smith, unwraps the surprising history behind Santa🎄
#ChristmasHistory #SantaClaus #FatherChristmas #UEAResearch
UEA’s Christmas expert, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Thomas Ruys Smith, unwraps the surprising history behind Santa🎄
#ChristmasHistory #SantaClaus #FatherChristmas #UEAResearch
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A lot of journos got addicted to the years of chaos. It made for clicks and content and that's deeply fucking problematic if we want this country to actually work.
Yes - hold the government to account and do it robustly. But partisan news coverage has leaked into mainstream from the GB news sewer.
Yes - hold the government to account and do it robustly. But partisan news coverage has leaked into mainstream from the GB news sewer.
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A lot of journos got addicted to the years of chaos. It made for clicks and content and that's deeply fucking problematic if we want this country to actually work.
Yes - hold the government to account and do it robustly. But partisan news coverage has leaked into mainstream from the GB news sewer.
Yes - hold the government to account and do it robustly. But partisan news coverage has leaked into mainstream from the GB news sewer.
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All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.
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Philippe Clement's Yellows 🙌
YouTube video by Norwich City Football Club
youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Finally. The sort of half that #NCFC fans have been promised at Carrow Road by two different head coaches and a wide range of staff and players. They were positive, energetic, technically good and, most importantly, on the same page.
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Finally. The sort of half that #NCFC fans have been promised at Carrow Road by two different head coaches and a wide range of staff and players. They were positive, energetic, technically good and, most importantly, on the same page.
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Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
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I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
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 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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xylophone sound
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
xylophone sound
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The Public Services Performance Tracker is regularly described as ‘sobering’ but this is definitely the first time we’ve had ‘almost lyrical’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The Public Services Performance Tracker is regularly described as ‘sobering’ but this is definitely the first time we’ve had ‘almost lyrical’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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That famous left-wing bias again
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
That famous left-wing bias again
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Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
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This research is important because it corroborates what we already knew - that when comparing the UK to peer economies, it has had a big slowdown since 2016. It does so with firm-level data and finds more EU-connected firms have sizeable shortfalls in productivity and investment compared to less.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This research is important because it corroborates what we already knew - that when comparing the UK to peer economies, it has had a big slowdown since 2016. It does so with firm-level data and finds more EU-connected firms have sizeable shortfalls in productivity and investment compared to less.
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Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
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Be Stiif: The Stiff Records Story is available now. Get your copy here!
www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Stiff-Rec...
#book #punk #stiffrecords #elviscostello #devo #lenelovich #iandury #madness #thedamned #thepogues
www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Stiff-Rec...
#book #punk #stiffrecords #elviscostello #devo #lenelovich #iandury #madness #thedamned #thepogues
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Be Stiif: The Stiff Records Story is available now. Get your copy here!
www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Stiff-Rec...
#book #punk #stiffrecords #elviscostello #devo #lenelovich #iandury #madness #thedamned #thepogues
www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Stiff-Rec...
#book #punk #stiffrecords #elviscostello #devo #lenelovich #iandury #madness #thedamned #thepogues
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Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
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Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
"Why are my hands so little?" 🤣🤣 @explodingheads.bsky.social
"it's always the fault of the migrants. Except when it isn't."
Colin from Portsmouth thinks we should blame immigrants for things before they even happen.
Colin from Portsmouth thinks we should blame immigrants for things before they even happen.
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Why are my hands so little?" 🤣🤣 @explodingheads.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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