Matt Rudd
@mattrudd.bsky.social
Contributing editor and columnist at the Sunday Times.
Occasional author, most recently, of Man Down.
Patron of the Counselling Centre, a charity in the South East doing brilliant work in the mental health trenches (message me if you want more info)
Occasional author, most recently, of Man Down.
Patron of the Counselling Centre, a charity in the South East doing brilliant work in the mental health trenches (message me if you want more info)
Reading for pleasure is essential for health and joy, but Britain is facing a reading crisis.
I am supporting the Sunday Times Get Britain Reading campaign. Join me and pledge to spend at least 10 minutes a day reading for the next six weeks…
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October 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reading for pleasure is essential for health and joy, but Britain is facing a reading crisis.
I am supporting the Sunday Times Get Britain Reading campaign. Join me and pledge to spend at least 10 minutes a day reading for the next six weeks…
link.thetimes.co.uk/join/74t/sig...
I am supporting the Sunday Times Get Britain Reading campaign. Join me and pledge to spend at least 10 minutes a day reading for the next six weeks…
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Ten years after building a 3,000-piece Lego Death Star with my kids (9, 7 and 2), I did it again. The kids were older, I was older… the Death Star was much, much bigger…
The galactic task of building a 9,000-piece Lego Death Star
www.thetimes.com/article/95eb...
The galactic task of building a 9,000-piece Lego Death Star
www.thetimes.com/article/95eb...
The galactic task of building a 9,000-piece Lego Death Star
Ten years after building its little brother — a mere 3,000 pieces — Matt Rudd and his sons tackled Lego’s largest and most expensive set. Was the force with them?
www.thetimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ten years after building a 3,000-piece Lego Death Star with my kids (9, 7 and 2), I did it again. The kids were older, I was older… the Death Star was much, much bigger…
The galactic task of building a 9,000-piece Lego Death Star
www.thetimes.com/article/95eb...
The galactic task of building a 9,000-piece Lego Death Star
www.thetimes.com/article/95eb...
Beautiful, upsetting, maddening, heartwarming interview
What happened when @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social met her heroine Kathy Burke
www.thetimes.com/article/89f8...
What happened when @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social met her heroine Kathy Burke
www.thetimes.com/article/89f8...
What happened when Caitlin Moran met her heroine Kathy Burke
She grew up in poverty and went on to become a comedy icon and best actress winner at Cannes. Now Kathy Burke has written a shocking memoir about her childhood. Caitlin Moran meets her heroine
www.thetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Beautiful, upsetting, maddening, heartwarming interview
What happened when @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social met her heroine Kathy Burke
www.thetimes.com/article/89f8...
What happened when @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social met her heroine Kathy Burke
www.thetimes.com/article/89f8...
The ultimate example of nominative determinism... surgeon Neil Hopper jailed after amputation of his own legs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Surgeon Neil Hopper jailed after amputation of own legs
Neil Hopper claimed that injuries to his legs were the result of sepsis and not self-inflicted.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The ultimate example of nominative determinism... surgeon Neil Hopper jailed after amputation of his own legs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When I was nine, I devised a plan to meet Luke Skywalker… it was simple… I would become a journalist and then interview him… didn’t expect it to take 40 years but still…
August 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
When I was nine, I devised a plan to meet Luke Skywalker… it was simple… I would become a journalist and then interview him… didn’t expect it to take 40 years but still…
How many of these do you think we have in our small holiday cottage bedroom? One? Two? …
August 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
How many of these do you think we have in our small holiday cottage bedroom? One? Two? …
Friendly annual reminder to all A-level/GCSE students collecting exam results - if a photographer asks you to hold a piece of paper and jump in the air with delight, just say no.
August 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Friendly annual reminder to all A-level/GCSE students collecting exam results - if a photographer asks you to hold a piece of paper and jump in the air with delight, just say no.
Reposted by Matt Rudd
Bags, blenders, antique clocks — if you name it, this army of volunteers in Tunbridge Wells can probably sort it with a smile and a story
My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free
www.thetimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Bags, blenders, antique clocks — if you name it, this army of volunteers in Tunbridge Wells can probably sort it with a smile and a story
Favourite story of the year… meeting the 81 - 81! - volunteers and seeing their combined decades of expertise put to work at the Tunbridge Wells repair cafe…
My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free
www.thetimes.com/article/d9f4...
My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free
www.thetimes.com/article/d9f4...
My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free
Bags, blenders, antique clocks — if you name it, this army of volunteers in Tunbridge Wells can probably sort it with a smile and a story
www.thetimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Favourite story of the year… meeting the 81 - 81! - volunteers and seeing their combined decades of expertise put to work at the Tunbridge Wells repair cafe…
My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free
www.thetimes.com/article/d9f4...
My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free
www.thetimes.com/article/d9f4...
Yes
July 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Yes
Goodness me, how depressing: The US government is spending $160,000 to burn nearly $10m of contraceptives rather than sell them to the UN to ship to poor nations, according to sources.
July 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Goodness me, how depressing: The US government is spending $160,000 to burn nearly $10m of contraceptives rather than sell them to the UN to ship to poor nations, according to sources.
An ode to a dog who had a stroke…
I used to think it was a waste of money keeping an old dog alive
www.thetimes.com/article/6dab...
I used to think it was a waste of money keeping an old dog alive
www.thetimes.com/article/6dab...
I used to think it was a waste of money keeping an old dog alive
‘Five years ago I watched in disbelief as a friend spent thousands of pounds he didn’t have on improbable surgery for his 12-year-old dog’
www.thetimes.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
An ode to a dog who had a stroke…
I used to think it was a waste of money keeping an old dog alive
www.thetimes.com/article/6dab...
I used to think it was a waste of money keeping an old dog alive
www.thetimes.com/article/6dab...
Excited about National Caviar Day on the 18th. Only 11 more sleeps
July 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Excited about National Caviar Day on the 18th. Only 11 more sleeps
Anyone else getting a lot of "press releases" from "relaytheupdate.com", "signalthenews.com" or similar? Emails from alleged humans eg Jasmine, Sienna, Adriana, Iris, Lucille etc. Replies get bounced back. Repping companies such as Number 1 Plates, Ski Vertigo, Plumb World. Is this death by AI PR?
July 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Anyone else getting a lot of "press releases" from "relaytheupdate.com", "signalthenews.com" or similar? Emails from alleged humans eg Jasmine, Sienna, Adriana, Iris, Lucille etc. Replies get bounced back. Repping companies such as Number 1 Plates, Ski Vertigo, Plumb World. Is this death by AI PR?
Reposted by Matt Rudd
Forecast in the UK is scorching for the next week. If you can, please put out some water sources. One for bees/butterflies* and one for bigger critters. *Shallow bowl with stones is ideal for insects, so they can drink without drowning. If you can manage a bird-height one as well, brilliant.
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Forecast in the UK is scorching for the next week. If you can, please put out some water sources. One for bees/butterflies* and one for bigger critters. *Shallow bowl with stones is ideal for insects, so they can drink without drowning. If you can manage a bird-height one as well, brilliant.
Very happy to bird bore with you @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social any time… I can play you our top 10 Merlins. Also, we have a tame baby magpie this year. Magpies are ruthless killers but this one is very cute. Ps lovely column
June 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Very happy to bird bore with you @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social any time… I can play you our top 10 Merlins. Also, we have a tame baby magpie this year. Magpies are ruthless killers but this one is very cute. Ps lovely column
Tried watching Gladiator 2 last night but zzzzzz… is it just Gladiator but with fancier / worse fx? Is it just Game of Thrones with a fancier / worse story? Should I try again?
May 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Tried watching Gladiator 2 last night but zzzzzz… is it just Gladiator but with fancier / worse fx? Is it just Game of Thrones with a fancier / worse story? Should I try again?
Reposted by Matt Rudd
The legend that is JMW Turner was born 250 years ago, tomorrow, and a host of exhibitions are celebrating his legacy this year. If you want to spend the summer retracing the artist's footsteps throughout the UK @mattrudd.bsky.social tells you how in The Times: www.thetimes.com/article/e01c...
My walk through JMW Turner’s Britain, 250 years later
To celebrate the anniversary of his birth, Matt Rudd retraces the great painter’s steps
www.thetimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The legend that is JMW Turner was born 250 years ago, tomorrow, and a host of exhibitions are celebrating his legacy this year. If you want to spend the summer retracing the artist's footsteps throughout the UK @mattrudd.bsky.social tells you how in The Times: www.thetimes.com/article/e01c...
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“It’s for the napkins at the truffle brunch on day three. Before the spa treatments at the palazzo and after the blessing from the Dalai Lama on the superyacht.” @mattrudd.bsky.social
When Bezos Met Bridezilla
An exclusive look inside Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Venice wedding—zero-gravity Botox, diamanté candelabras, Dom Pérignon, and all.
airmail.news
April 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“It’s for the napkins at the truffle brunch on day three. Before the spa treatments at the palazzo and after the blessing from the Dalai Lama on the superyacht.” @mattrudd.bsky.social
Child A is 16,000th in the queue for a driving test after logging into the DVLA at 6.00.02am one year after the transport minister said it was “unacceptable” that robot scalpers were snapping all the tests released each week. Should this be harder than Oasis tickets? Ridiculous
April 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Child A is 16,000th in the queue for a driving test after logging into the DVLA at 6.00.02am one year after the transport minister said it was “unacceptable” that robot scalpers were snapping all the tests released each week. Should this be harder than Oasis tickets? Ridiculous
A great piece by my colleague of 20+ years…
Flying rats, gruelling shifts — why do we treat binmen like rubbish?
www.thetimes.com/article/75ff...
Flying rats, gruelling shifts — why do we treat binmen like rubbish?
www.thetimes.com/article/75ff...
Flying rats, gruelling shifts — why do we treat binmen like rubbish?
Amid the ongoing refuse collectors’ strike in Birmingham, Stephen Bleach joins a crew in Coventry for an exhausting day
www.thetimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A great piece by my colleague of 20+ years…
Flying rats, gruelling shifts — why do we treat binmen like rubbish?
www.thetimes.com/article/75ff...
Flying rats, gruelling shifts — why do we treat binmen like rubbish?
www.thetimes.com/article/75ff...
Shiny apples. Get your shiny apples ‘ere.
March 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Shiny apples. Get your shiny apples ‘ere.
My long read for the day (which you can read for free, you lucky people)…
Five years of the WFH experiment: is it working?
www.thetimes.com/article/4c3f...
Five years of the WFH experiment: is it working?
www.thetimes.com/article/4c3f...
Five years of the WFH experiment: is it working?
After half a decade of ‘you’re on mute’, are we all about to be hauled back to our office desks full-time? Matt Rudd reports
www.thetimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
My long read for the day (which you can read for free, you lucky people)…
Five years of the WFH experiment: is it working?
www.thetimes.com/article/4c3f...
Five years of the WFH experiment: is it working?
www.thetimes.com/article/4c3f...