Matt Stevens
mattstevens.bsky.social
Matt Stevens
@mattstevens.bsky.social
Never quite old enough to know better.
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Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Grok denying the Holocaust here
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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So many of the refugees that I met Calais and Dunkirk in September were women fleeing the war in Amhara, Ethiopia. It is, in the West, a totally forgotten war, which I regret to say I was totally ignorant of before I met them. bbc.com/news/article...
Ethiopia's Amhara conflict: The forgotten war destroying women's lives
Thousands of women have been raped in Ethiopia’s Amhara conflict, BBC Global Women finds.
bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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So a weird thing happened to me in Aldi that I cdn't quite place until I was listening to Gabby Bertin talking about choking in porn on the radio this am. (NB: this is 100% not a sex thing). Having the usual polite chitchat with the cashier who is tired from working extra shifts to make £ for xmas..
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper
November 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Imagine being so insecure that, before going in to a meeting with President Xi, you have to order conspicuous displays of nuclear capability.

Sabre rattling at its most reckless. So vain, so stunted, so stupid.
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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With an ally of Nigel Farage pleading guilty to taking bribes for making pro-Russian statements, it’s clear we need an in-depth investigation into Russian money in our politics.

Today I asked the Prime Minister whether he would back an investigation.
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Tory MP and "rising star" Katie Lam supports the mass deportation of families who came to the UK legally — a policy so unprecedented it has been compared with Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians.

But did you know Lam has drawn sartorial, as well as policy, inspiration from the brutal Ugandan dictator?
October 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Delightful doc with Mark Bonnar exploring Scottish new town public art, including the hippos of Glenrothes made by his artist dad Stan. New towns, public art, Mark Bonnar? It’s ✅✅✅ from me
Meet You at the Hippos
Mark Bonnar returns to the Scottish new towns in which he grew up to explore the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Telegraph reports that James Orr has formally joined Reform UK and is now an advisor to Nigel Farage.

He could prove to be a key force in the party’s thinking and policy making.

A Cambridge academic, he is respected by many Tories - JD Vance calls him “his British Sherpa.”
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Vancouver record store owner gives recently discovered 1962 Beatles audition reel to Paul McCartney
Vancouver record store owner gives recently discovered 1962 Beatles audition reel to Paul McCartney
In the 44 years he’s owned Neptoon Records in Vancouver, Rob Frith has bought a lot of random music collections. But only one of them contained original recordings of the Beatles from 1962.
bit.ly
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Happy 25th to Kid A
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🇲🇩 Moldova, you’ve done it again.

No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve.

You made your choice clear:

Europe. Democracy. Freedom.

Our door is open. And we will stand with you every step of the way.

The future is yours.
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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RIP Danny Thompson. Watch the full recording of Pentangle at the Two Brewers here youtu.be/ESycWNOJ22o
September 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Sounds like the US is about to bail out Trump’s pal Javier Milei. ‘America First’ always has lots of exceptions.
September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?
September 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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"Misperception about UK cases before ECtHR. Judgments against UK are rare. Since 1980, ECtHR found UK decision to extradite or deport would violate ECHR 13 times. 4 of these concerned family life. In respect of UK immigration rules, ECtHR ruled against UK 3 times in 45 years": Oxford Uni research
September 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I'm increasingly convinced this is the main persuasive mechanism of media, and especially social media. media, especially social media, provides a vivid sense of "what everyone thinks," which causes the viewer to then shift their view so they can fit in with everyone, and be liked and not ostracized
August 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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think that if "we must debate the fascists not no-platform them!" is your view then we have probably reached the stage, globally, where you may wish to wonder if your preferred way of doing things is actually working
August 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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We’re so fucked:

1) TikTok being used to upload family videos which are inadvertently shown to big numbers because peoplestopped flicking for half a second
2) The profitability of libellous “what’s up here” Blue Tick X
3) the fact the whole town had seen it means this looks a lot like the true MSM
August 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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The video was shared on Robinson's X account. The far right is using X to destabilise our society and the govt is doing nothing about it. [And lots of you are helping support the site by continuing to post there].
This is wickedness. It flourishes.
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters.

Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
August 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM