Matthew Sweet
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
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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 9:26 AM
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
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Watched Fassbinder's Third Generation tonight, to honour Udo. A Baader-Meinhof farce in which the protagonists have the same shagpile carpet as Petra von Kant and the action is punctuated by captions quoting dirty stuff found on toilet walls in west Berlin. An evening well spent.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Watched Fassbinder's Third Generation tonight, to honour Udo. A Baader-Meinhof farce in which the protagonists have the same shagpile carpet as Petra von Kant and the action is punctuated by captions quoting dirty stuff found on toilet walls in west Berlin. An evening well spent.
In 2018 I wrote about the conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche going crazy and believing that Stephen Spender and Nelson Rockefeller had sent brainwashed assassins to kill him. This is like seeing your research subject come to life. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
Candace Owens alleges assassination plot involving Macrons | The Jerusalem Post
Candace Owens claims the Macrons ordered an assassination plot against her, alleging Israeli involvement, though no evidence or official confirmation has been provided.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In 2018 I wrote about the conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche going crazy and believing that Stephen Spender and Nelson Rockefeller had sent brainwashed assassins to kill him. This is like seeing your research subject come to life. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
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Ok, ok, ONE more
The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!
#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!
#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ok, ok, ONE more
The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!
#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
The original scripted ending for The Deadly Assassin, which would have ended with this BRILLIANT roller caption and they should have kept it in!
#doctorwhoday #doctorwho
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Become an indentured labourer?
Dubai on a budget: How to visit the winter sun destination for less
Dubai on a budget: How to visit the winter sun destination for less
Dubai on a budget: How to visit the winter sun destination for less
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November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Become an indentured labourer?
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
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Scary stuff - and well done @theguardian.com for exposing such a sordid, sad, dangerous business.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Scary stuff - and well done @theguardian.com for exposing such a sordid, sad, dangerous business.
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As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.
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I do not use ChatGPT because I still remember when you had to go to your local at a specific time of day to listen to someone slurring conspiracy theories with utmost confidence and I will never allow Sam Altman to take that from me
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I do not use ChatGPT because I still remember when you had to go to your local at a specific time of day to listen to someone slurring conspiracy theories with utmost confidence and I will never allow Sam Altman to take that from me
And a K9 comput-aaaaa
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
And a K9 comput-aaaaa
Or meet Eric Morecambe and give him a slap
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Or meet Eric Morecambe and give him a slap
You’re right about that tail of course…
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
You’re right about that tail of course…
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Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
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Reading Antiquities of Athens & Attica Vol. 2 - my fav book @porticolibrary.bsky.social as part of a movement workshop.
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Reading Antiquities of Athens & Attica Vol. 2 - my fav book @porticolibrary.bsky.social as part of a movement workshop.
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Daily Mail owner DMGT has just signed a deal to buy the Telegraph, which would unite the UK’s two strongest right-wing papers under one owner.
It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.
It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph on.ft.com/3JSdIFj
Daily Mail owner strikes £500mn deal for Telegraph
Tie-up would create one of the most powerful right-leaning media groups in Britain
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November 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Daily Mail owner DMGT has just signed a deal to buy the Telegraph, which would unite the UK’s two strongest right-wing papers under one owner.
It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.
It will almost certainly trigger a competition probe. Another major moment coming for Lisa Nandy as culture secretary.
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Clueless is so great. Why didn't they make a 90s version of every Jane Austen novel? Persuasion would be perfect, Louisa could be injured skysurfing
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Clueless is so great. Why didn't they make a 90s version of every Jane Austen novel? Persuasion would be perfect, Louisa could be injured skysurfing
Declinists younger than policemen these days
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Declinists younger than policemen these days
I am curious about his relationship with anti-vaxxers. He was one of the few MPs who attended when Andrew Bridgen invited Aseem Malhotra to the Commons. And Reform has said Malhotra helped write their health policy. Would bear a bit of investigation.
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I am curious about his relationship with anti-vaxxers. He was one of the few MPs who attended when Andrew Bridgen invited Aseem Malhotra to the Commons. And Reform has said Malhotra helped write their health policy. Would bear a bit of investigation.
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lmao, but aside from that: 👌
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
lmao, but aside from that: 👌
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Hello. This is marvellous x
1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive
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November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Hello. This is marvellous x
This whole series is magnificent. There’s one about Kenneth Tynan on Oxford with child versions of Michael Rosen and Gyles Brandreth. That man giving Marty his award here is Dr Who’s first script editor.
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This whole series is magnificent. There’s one about Kenneth Tynan on Oxford with child versions of Michael Rosen and Gyles Brandreth. That man giving Marty his award here is Dr Who’s first script editor.
On Free Thinking: geology considered as one of the humanities and everything you wanted to know about Object Oriented Ontology but were afraid to ask. With Rosemary Hill, Sarah Jackson, @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @objectoriented.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Rocks
How can earth sciences like geology transform our understanding of history and society?
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November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
On Free Thinking: geology considered as one of the humanities and everything you wanted to know about Object Oriented Ontology but were afraid to ask. With Rosemary Hill, Sarah Jackson, @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @objectoriented.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social
👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...