Matt Carr
@mattcarr.substack.com
Writer, author, journalist, cat lover, walker, traveller. X Exile. No tolerance for fascists,racists, liars, or making your country great again…wherever it is. Weekly newsletter at: mattcarr.substack.com
If you want to know why Reform is coming, read this typically incisive dissection of Alison Pearson's latest column by the indispensable Mic Wright.
NEW | The Daily Telegraph, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and some very weird Winnie the Pooh fan fiction...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
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A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...
The Daily Telegraph, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and some very weird Winnie the Pooh fan fiction...
A column from Allison Pearson shows how Labour's attitude to asylum seekers will never be cruel enough for the Right.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you want to know why Reform is coming, read this typically incisive dissection of Alison Pearson's latest column by the indispensable Mic Wright.
The MAGA rolling in the gutter. The corruption is so brazen. Out in the b open and arrogantly in your face. A gaping moral void filled with the very worst people American society could find.
They would pimp their own mothers if the pedophile racist demanded it.
They would pimp their own mothers if the pedophile racist demanded it.
This is what Dirty Donald was plotting with pedophile protectors Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino as a way to suppress the release of the Epstein files. Trump is the central figure in the most sinister pedophile scandal in American history. Watergate pales in comparison.
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The MAGA rolling in the gutter. The corruption is so brazen. Out in the b open and arrogantly in your face. A gaping moral void filled with the very worst people American society could find.
They would pimp their own mothers if the pedophile racist demanded it.
They would pimp their own mothers if the pedophile racist demanded it.
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Unless someone in the Treasury reassures the markets pretty soon, there’s every chance the UK will need to raise *more* tax for less in return. Total clusterfuck in the making, this.
Having a budget fall apart more than a week before it’s actually be delivered might be a new record.
Having a budget fall apart more than a week before it’s actually be delivered might be a new record.
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Unless someone in the Treasury reassures the markets pretty soon, there’s every chance the UK will need to raise *more* tax for less in return. Total clusterfuck in the making, this.
Having a budget fall apart more than a week before it’s actually be delivered might be a new record.
Having a budget fall apart more than a week before it’s actually be delivered might be a new record.
Watching Labour is like watching a ship being tossed too and fro by a storm that consists entirely of rightwing op eds, focus groups and Reform outlets.
No evidence of where it wants to go or how it intends to get there. Every sign that it is making up the budget as it goes along.
Unforgivable
No evidence of where it wants to go or how it intends to get there. Every sign that it is making up the budget as it goes along.
Unforgivable
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Watching Labour is like watching a ship being tossed too and fro by a storm that consists entirely of rightwing op eds, focus groups and Reform outlets.
No evidence of where it wants to go or how it intends to get there. Every sign that it is making up the budget as it goes along.
Unforgivable
No evidence of where it wants to go or how it intends to get there. Every sign that it is making up the budget as it goes along.
Unforgivable
My substack piece on Trump's ballroom and related matters. open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
Ballroom Blitz
Why the One Percent are Partying like it’s 1933
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November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My substack piece on Trump's ballroom and related matters. open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
My piece on the Tory 'rising star' Katie Lam and related matters. mattcarr.substack.com/p/lams-to-th...
Lams to the Slaughter
Britain 2030
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October 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
My piece on the Tory 'rising star' Katie Lam and related matters. mattcarr.substack.com/p/lams-to-th...
For those who are interested, this is an interview I did for the #Royal Literary Fund podcast with #Paul Dodgson. I had a lot of fun and writers out there might enjoy it too: podcast.rlf.org.uk/495-matt-car...
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podcast.rlf.org.uk/495-matt-car...
Collected: The Podcast: #495 Matt Carr, fiction and non-fiction writer, journalist and podcaster
Presenter Paul Dodgson is joined by Matt Carr, whose wide-ranging curiosity has led him to write books on topics as diverse as the history of terrorism, the conquest of Patagonia and Charles Darwin. A...
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October 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
For those who are interested, this is an interview I did for the #Royal Literary Fund podcast with #Paul Dodgson. I had a lot of fun and writers out there might enjoy it too: podcast.rlf.org.uk/495-matt-car...
podcast.rlf.org.uk/495-matt-car...
podcast.rlf.org.uk/495-matt-car...
So further proof in the Guardian that Labour got this completely wrong. And so did most of the political class and the pitiful UK commentariat.
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
So further proof in the Guardian that Labour got this completely wrong. And so did most of the political class and the pitiful UK commentariat.
Not unprecedented. Why doesn't she know this? Or maybe she does? mattcarr.substack.com/p/game-over?...
October 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Not unprecedented. Why doesn't she know this? Or maybe she does? mattcarr.substack.com/p/game-over?...
My piece on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fiasco and our utterly useless government and commentariat. mattcarr.substack.com/p/game-over?...
Game Over
Labour Plays the Police, Not the Ball
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October 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My piece on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fiasco and our utterly useless government and commentariat. mattcarr.substack.com/p/game-over?...
Lucid, eloquent, angry and razorsharp piece from Nesrine Malik.
A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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October 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Lucid, eloquent, angry and razorsharp piece from Nesrine Malik.
The million dollar question.
How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The million dollar question.
Yesterday I was accepted as a member of the Historical Writers Association. On the same day my novel The Devils of Cardona was published in the UK
#writingcommunity
#Booksky
#writingcommunity
#Booksky
After 8 years my novel The Devils of Cardona was finally published (digitally) n the UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FTMDV41P
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Yesterday I was accepted as a member of the Historical Writers Association. On the same day my novel The Devils of Cardona was published in the UK
#writingcommunity
#Booksky
#writingcommunity
#Booksky
After 8 years my novel The Devils of Cardona was finally published (digitally) n the UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FTMDV41P
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
After 8 years my novel The Devils of Cardona was finally published (digitally) n the UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FTMDV41P
Amazing how the Orange Bone Spur man who ducked military service revels in killing and violence done by others to others.
Trump brags to military leaders about his strikes on boats: "They don't want go fishing. I don't blame them. There will be no fishing today. It's amazing what strength will do."
September 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Amazing how the Orange Bone Spur man who ducked military service revels in killing and violence done by others to others.
My substack post on the looming calamity of a Reform gov and Labour’s belated and weak response to it:https://mattcarr.substack.com/p/trumpland-uk
September 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My substack post on the looming calamity of a Reform gov and Labour’s belated and weak response to it:https://mattcarr.substack.com/p/trumpland-uk
After all the horrors inflicted on Gaza, to have Tony Blair presiding over the ruins as the emissary of Trump and Netanyahu is the final moral disgrace.
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
After all the horrors inflicted on Gaza, to have Tony Blair presiding over the ruins as the emissary of Trump and Netanyahu is the final moral disgrace.
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The 21st century has been one long joke and this is the punchline
September 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The 21st century has been one long joke and this is the punchline
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Why can't Starmer say this sort of stuff?
Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Why can't Starmer say this sort of stuff?
The most terrifying thing about the Reform/MEGA surge w/ regards to the US isn't that so many British voters don't see the cruelty, illegality, authoritarian overreach, white Christian nationalism, bullying, incompetence etc - it's that they do see it and want it.
September 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The most terrifying thing about the Reform/MEGA surge w/ regards to the US isn't that so many British voters don't see the cruelty, illegality, authoritarian overreach, white Christian nationalism, bullying, incompetence etc - it's that they do see it and want it.