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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Sales of “Any Old S**t” Jump This Christmas - Larry & Paul
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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December 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Commentatorballs: collecting the very best of the wisdom of pundits. These are all real quotes from real commentators.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Commentatorballs: collecting the very best of the wisdom of pundits. These are all real quotes from real commentators.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
Watch ‘An Evening with Private Eye 2025’ in full, on Private Eye’s YouTube channel now.
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It's almost as if people have contrived to turn immigration into an obsession
December 21, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It's almost as if people have contrived to turn immigration into an obsession
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Pleased to have been selected for In Proximity at Norwich Castle from 14 Feb-June.
Turn Off Your Mind
Oil on gesso diptych
2025.
A painting of beauty and unease.
Turn Off Your Mind
Oil on gesso diptych
2025.
A painting of beauty and unease.
December 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Pleased to have been selected for In Proximity at Norwich Castle from 14 Feb-June.
Turn Off Your Mind
Oil on gesso diptych
2025.
A painting of beauty and unease.
Turn Off Your Mind
Oil on gesso diptych
2025.
A painting of beauty and unease.
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this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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As we offer to collect and preserve creative work from alumni of retired agencies such as #FCB, #MullenLowe and #DDB we're pleased to announce that we have set up a simple cash donation option to support our work via JustGiving to protect anonymity if required: www.justgiving.com/campaign/hat...
Creative agency legacies
HAT has created a means whereby alumni from acquired or merged agency brands, such as FCB, MullenLowe and DDB, can send digital files to protect their legacies, whilst supporting our charitable aims w...
www.justgiving.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
As we offer to collect and preserve creative work from alumni of retired agencies such as #FCB, #MullenLowe and #DDB we're pleased to announce that we have set up a simple cash donation option to support our work via JustGiving to protect anonymity if required: www.justgiving.com/campaign/hat...
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An oldie but goodie.
( you have to be of a certain age)
( you have to be of a certain age)
December 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
An oldie but goodie.
( you have to be of a certain age)
( you have to be of a certain age)
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I've written for Psyche about some of the extraordinary things institutional trust enables us to do, and why we have to live with the fact that big organisations screw up.
Modern life relies on trust in civic institutions. Through a historical lens, this Idea looks back at the vast benefits trust once delivered, traces how scepticism has grown and touches on ways we might restore trust while retaining healthy scepticism @rostaylor.bsky.social
We’re losing trust in civic institutions – can we get it back? | Psyche Ideas
Historically, trust in institutions freed us to do extraordinary things. They can be flawed, but we lose them at our peril
buff.ly
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I've written for Psyche about some of the extraordinary things institutional trust enables us to do, and why we have to live with the fact that big organisations screw up.
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Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders
Saddened to see the village I grew up in north Kent has a Reform Councillor who said: "the motion [for Swale to sign up to the nationwide City of Sanctuary scheme] has caused 'division in the community' rather than bringing it together." I think we all know who promotes division councillor 😠
Council offices vandalised in ‘horrendous’ scenes during asylum seekers debate
Police were called in as a council debate about asylum seekers turned ugly with toilets smashed up and councillors spat at.
www.kentonline.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Saddened to see the village I grew up in north Kent has a Reform Councillor who said: "the motion [for Swale to sign up to the nationwide City of Sanctuary scheme] has caused 'division in the community' rather than bringing it together." I think we all know who promotes division councillor 😠
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This morning in the House of Commons, I raised the assault on Swale Borough Council that took place last night. The Speaker responded firmly: ‘Attacks on our democracy are unacceptable'.
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This morning in the House of Commons, I raised the assault on Swale Borough Council that took place last night. The Speaker responded firmly: ‘Attacks on our democracy are unacceptable'.
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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I recently visited the 'Seeds of Hate and Hope' exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, part of the ‘Can we stop killing each other?’ season. Read my full review for @fadmagazine.com.web.brid.gy now >> buff.ly/VZpTnKz #LondonArtCritic #LondonExhibitions
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I recently visited the 'Seeds of Hate and Hope' exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, part of the ‘Can we stop killing each other?’ season. Read my full review for @fadmagazine.com.web.brid.gy now >> buff.ly/VZpTnKz #LondonArtCritic #LondonExhibitions
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"Nigel Farage is the ghost of Christmas Future!"
Colin from Portsmouth is on the line.
Colin from Portsmouth is on the line.
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Nigel Farage is the ghost of Christmas Future!"
Colin from Portsmouth is on the line.
Colin from Portsmouth is on the line.
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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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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 👇