Professor Peter Matthews
@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social
Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Will there be anything left to announce in the budget?!
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Will there be anything left to announce in the budget?!
FFS
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 11:06 AM
FFS
This is an absolutely cracking job for someone:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN334/q...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN334/q...
Qualitative Researcher at The Ada Lovelace Institute
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November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This is an absolutely cracking job for someone:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN334/q...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN334/q...
I think the Guardian shouldn't correct that TV review, but double-down on it to drive the clicks for the LOLz
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I think the Guardian shouldn't correct that TV review, but double-down on it to drive the clicks for the LOLz
I've popped on Martha Wainwright's eponymous first album and I'd forgotten how it's one of the best albums ever recorded in the world ever. I saw her touring it in Edinburgh 21 years ago, in the venue that used to be that soft-play place everyone of a certain age had been to in Fountainbridge
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I've popped on Martha Wainwright's eponymous first album and I'd forgotten how it's one of the best albums ever recorded in the world ever. I saw her touring it in Edinburgh 21 years ago, in the venue that used to be that soft-play place everyone of a certain age had been to in Fountainbridge
With the announcement of Jimmy Cliff's death, I had to look up this classic, from when adverts were 60 second feature films:
youtu.be/sWnTWNDPTJo?...
youtu.be/sWnTWNDPTJo?...
Nescafé - Sunrise (1988, UK)
YouTube video by The Hall of Advertising
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November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
With the announcement of Jimmy Cliff's death, I had to look up this classic, from when adverts were 60 second feature films:
youtu.be/sWnTWNDPTJo?...
youtu.be/sWnTWNDPTJo?...
Peter Matthews, here for your "it's devolved" policy hot-takes on social media for nearly 15 years now...
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Peter Matthews, here for your "it's devolved" policy hot-takes on social media for nearly 15 years now...
As education is fully devolved across the UK, would Reeves have to use the Single Market Act to enforce this? Or would it just apply to English unis?
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
As education is fully devolved across the UK, would Reeves have to use the Single Market Act to enforce this? Or would it just apply to English unis?
SURANNE JONES HAS BEEN SPOTTED!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
SURANNE JONES HAS BEEN SPOTTED!!!!
They're filming something on campus, but we don't know what. These fake signs have appeared. Any ideas?
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
They're filming something on campus, but we don't know what. These fake signs have appeared. Any ideas?
"Hiya! Y'alright babez?!?"
BREAKING: Keir Starmer had a “brush by” with Chinese premier Li Qiang at G20 summit in Johannesburg at weekend - although reporters on trip were not told about this.
Understand this was a brief hello in leader’s lounge and nothing of substance was discussed.
Understand this was a brief hello in leader’s lounge and nothing of substance was discussed.
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Hiya! Y'alright babez?!?"
Just realised why I'm working with people called Jack all of a sudden:
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society...
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society...
Parents warned to stop calling their children Lily or Jack
BRITISH parents' desire to give all children the name Jack or Lily could have sociological repercussions, experts have warned.
www.thedailymash.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just realised why I'm working with people called Jack all of a sudden:
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society...
www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society...
MONDAY MORNING UPDATE: seems to be reopened, at least at the Crewe Toll end
UPDATE: councillor a bit miffed that it's still closed and will be contacting officers on duty tomorrow
GOOD NEWS! According to my councillor, the path should reopening tomorrow and officers will explore more sensible options
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
MONDAY MORNING UPDATE: seems to be reopened, at least at the Crewe Toll end
Starting the week with an article rejection 🙄 I've been rejected by this journal twice and it has the weirdest submission and review process. I don't think I'm going to bother with it ever again
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Starting the week with an article rejection 🙄 I've been rejected by this journal twice and it has the weirdest submission and review process. I don't think I'm going to bother with it ever again
Do I choose: Room at the Top; Billy Liar; The Railway Children; Rita, Sue and Bob Too; The Dresser; one of the many versions of Wuthering Heights.....?
Post a movie where you're from.
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Do I choose: Room at the Top; Billy Liar; The Railway Children; Rita, Sue and Bob Too; The Dresser; one of the many versions of Wuthering Heights.....?
Reposted by Professor Peter Matthews
Here’s this week’s column, in which I beg the chancellor to go big this week - on both headroom and narrative - so that by next year, if she’s still here to deliver it, the budget will be boring, because we all know the plan 🙏🏻
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Rachel Reeves, please, let’s make budgets boring again | Heather Stewart
Budgets need to be reassuringly dull with no repeat of this year’s long, drawn-out and chaotic buildup
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Here’s this week’s column, in which I beg the chancellor to go big this week - on both headroom and narrative - so that by next year, if she’s still here to deliver it, the budget will be boring, because we all know the plan 🙏🏻
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
*smiles smugly with the abolition of peak fares in Scotland*
Train fares frozen: not happened for decades.
Bringing rail back into public ownership means we can take action on fares.
Bringing rail back into public ownership means we can take action on fares.
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
*smiles smugly with the abolition of peak fares in Scotland*
I'm struggling to suspend disbelief with one part of this stupid #TheArchers in The Traitors storyline - if you had that much money for this holiday, surely you'd employ a travel agent to make sure it wasn't such a disaster?
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I'm struggling to suspend disbelief with one part of this stupid #TheArchers in The Traitors storyline - if you had that much money for this holiday, surely you'd employ a travel agent to make sure it wasn't such a disaster?
Become Wout van Aert's physiotherapist.
Or Jonathan Bailey's kept man.
Or Jonathan Bailey's kept man.
What's your absolutely unworkable plan to drop out of your current life (or at least work life) and do something completely different?
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Become Wout van Aert's physiotherapist.
Or Jonathan Bailey's kept man.
Or Jonathan Bailey's kept man.
We're watching Girlbands Forever, and they've just gone through the Sugababes line-up changes, and I know The Three Degrees had done something similar, so I looked them up.
There's been TWENTY members of the Three Degrees over the years!!!
There's been TWENTY members of the Three Degrees over the years!!!
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We're watching Girlbands Forever, and they've just gone through the Sugababes line-up changes, and I know The Three Degrees had done something similar, so I looked them up.
There's been TWENTY members of the Three Degrees over the years!!!
There's been TWENTY members of the Three Degrees over the years!!!
Reposted by Professor Peter Matthews
“I’d like the most Yorkshire quote you can get.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“I’d like the most Yorkshire quote you can get.”
Me as your Bsky therapist:
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Me as your Bsky therapist:
I've got to say, as a councillor, engaging with your constituents and getting problems solved, is a sure fire way to guarantee a vote or two. SGP and the LibDems are going to be higher on my ranking than they otherwise would be because of this
UPDATE: councillor a bit miffed that it's still closed and will be contacting officers on duty tomorrow
GOOD NEWS! According to my councillor, the path should reopening tomorrow and officers will explore more sensible options
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I've got to say, as a councillor, engaging with your constituents and getting problems solved, is a sure fire way to guarantee a vote or two. SGP and the LibDems are going to be higher on my ranking than they otherwise would be because of this
No one's leaving #Strictly this week.....
Because otherwise the series is a week short and we don't know how to fill the gap in the schedules
Because otherwise the series is a week short and we don't know how to fill the gap in the schedules
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
No one's leaving #Strictly this week.....
Because otherwise the series is a week short and we don't know how to fill the gap in the schedules
Because otherwise the series is a week short and we don't know how to fill the gap in the schedules
UPDATE: councillor a bit miffed that it's still closed and will be contacting officers on duty tomorrow
GOOD NEWS! According to my councillor, the path should reopening tomorrow and officers will explore more sensible options
Ferry Road Path CLOSED to pedestrians and cyclists from today to 16 January for installation of a security fence at Leonardo. TTRO closure order was signed on Wednesday with the below diversion: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/fi... #EdTravCyc @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
UPDATE: councillor a bit miffed that it's still closed and will be contacting officers on duty tomorrow