Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Dedicating a solid minute of your speech to how the tax code is too long and complicated and then having the main policy proposal be "more caveats and loopholes for inheritance tax" is just *chefs kiss* 000
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It's even weirder than that, they're writing reams and reams about how well it's leader is doing! 000
Reposted by Matt BoldJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 1002216785
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Han, Luke and Leia are out here fighting for their lives and Chewbacca is smoking a spliff on Joe Rogan musing how the Emperor kinda has a point. 000
Reposted by Matt BoldJamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller. 20747501187
Reposted by Matt BoldTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There are, of course, only two ethnicities - Cymry (good) and Saes (everyone else, bad) 5485
Reposted by Matt BoldJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026This is true. But also, sometimes you just have to stand up for stuff even if you don't know the effect it will have. 1525138
Reposted by Matt BoldThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... 321420631
Reposted by Matt BoldAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 4920931254
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The BBC taking the line that it's "unclear" if Trump offering cash for people to vote Republican is illegal is bizzare, because if it is "unclear", feels like the story should be - contrary to a hundred years of legal theory US electoral law doesn't ban literally bribing the electorate 000
Reposted by Matt BoldKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026@ stephenkb.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head of course. "the Labour Party has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point" - as.ft.com/r/97d33f08-a...as.ft.comLabour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggeryA government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse 22863322
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Ofgem let sewage get pumped into our seas, Ofcom let a propaganda channel run 24/7, the Electoral Commission thinks dodgy foreign donations aren't its business. When did our laws become guidelines? 000
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026For real tho whose the 10% who see a potted plant and are like "streets gone" 010
Reposted by Matt BoldStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“Deluded” to think it is at the least, *possible* for a charismatic man to succeed in academia while telling tall tales and with questionable research without a helping hand from “EDI”. Can these people hear themselves? 3867478
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Only modern Hollywood could make "The Purge but sex", & then take out the sex 000
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Its bonkers that, "do less as the world burns and we can't grow the food we need" is now seen as the"grown up" & "sensible" position 010
Reposted by Matt BoldJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis. 61930260
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2025The Wales Snr Mens Team stink, the Snr Women's team stink, the Mens U20s stink, and the WRU really think the solution is to cut two Snr Men's pro teams rather than sorting themselves out? 001
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025I've spent 10 minutes staring as this headline trying to fathom a scenario where it's a direct choice between Henry V and "Mr Men" 120
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Being schmoozed s an unusual feeling as a Millennial. Because our entire political system and most of our practical lives is based on "well you're gonna have to put up with this shit" 000
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Objectively hilarious that people are very much in favour of other people doing National Service. 010
Reposted by Matt BoldSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 04/01/2025There now follows a short thread of Captain Holt quotes on screenshots of Kratos. Why? Because I wanted to, that's why. 13213
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 25/05/2025In a country where more and more children are going hungry, more and more people have to sleep on our streets and you're spending your money on that? 57820
Reposted by Matt BoldThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Something that the Lucy Connolly case has illustrated - something that is well known to those who work in criminal justice but often overlooked in public debate - is the complexity and nuance in the lives and characters of people appearing before the courts. A short 🧵👇 12343114
Reposted by Matt BoldStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Too many people at the top of the BBC think that they should be competing with the private sector not providing an important thing that the market can't. Should focus on providing detailed coverage of 'what's in it?' that someone with the reading age of a seven year old can parse. 101494277
Reposted by Matt BoldSarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025They should invent chess merch that’s good 161921
Reposted by Matt BoldSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/05/2025The first two points contradict each other, and the last is meaningless. Great. 4343283
Reposted by Matt BoldJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/05/2025The "island of strangers" line from Starmer is deeply cynical, placed in a paragraph that allows deniability of the worst characterisations of it, but there if their imaginary Reform-Labour switcher wants to hear it (which they won't, because they're imaginary) 4748
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Presuming that there are two kinds of voters, a) those that agree with the below and b) those that don't. Voter B) now won't vote for you and Voter A) still won't vote for because they trust Farage over you to "deal with it". Congratulations, you've played yourself. 000
Reposted by Matt BoldCrisis @crisis-uk.bsky.social · 06/05/2025It has been 3 years since Royal Assent was given to the repeal of the Vagrancy Act (1824). But people forced to sleep rough still face fines or even prison because parliament has failed to complete repeal. Thank you to Baroness Alicia Kennedy for raising this vital issue. 033
Reposted by Matt BoldSeth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 05/05/2025this continues to be the most useful metaphor I’ve seen 2504146
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Excellent point here about the incompatibility of wanting to, apparently, fundamentally change the UK and also not have any individual policy that could be portrayed as scary or radical 000
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025What is the point of winning elections if you can't then use your power to help starving children because you're too afraid of the next election? 120
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Politicians: We should run Government like a business Business: 010
Reposted by Matt BoldMidnight Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Good night, Bluesky 634384535
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 24/03/2025The best change they could make is turn it back to the way it was 10 years ago when it was actually useful 010
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Oh youre a fan of St Patrick? Name your favourite hagiography 000
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025"Ideas the left find offensive" is a funny way of saying "Nazi shit" Every time I pop over to Twitter I get bombarded with Nazi shit. If there was a part of town where every time I went I got bombarded with Nazi shit, I would stop going. It's the same. 010
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025One of the slipperiest tricks of modern political "commentary" is that conservative talking points are sprayed across the press on a daily basis but presented as some kind of secret, forbidden lore. 010
Reposted by Matt BoldEllen @ellenoffrell.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A senator turns up 10 mins late to the Roman senate on a day Cicero is giving a speech. Says to the guy next to him, “What did I miss?” The guy replies, “I don’t know, he hasn’t got to the verb yet.” 26819
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Blue Lab "sank... when it emerged that such protections would include restrictions on the import of cheaper migrant labour". Lab 15 - Control immigration mugs Lab 17 - End free movement Lab 24 - Slash illegal immigration This article is utterly ahistorical. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAn exiled group within Labour is making a comeback – it could hold the key to repelling Farage | Julian ComanMany of Blue Labour’s diagnoses have been proved correct. With Reform targeting Labour’s working-class support, a reappraisal is overdue, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman 120
Reposted by Matt BoldMorgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I've seen a lot of comment about Glasman of late that doesn't really take in – well, lots of things he says publicly, so we've laid out some of them here. I think his view on Trumpism is a fundamental political choice, and should colour our understanding of his other interventions: 158137
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This is a strange article, where the author pretends to not understand that a key reason people treat cavapoos differently from XL Bullies is that one can kill you & one can't. (And ignores her own stat showing 5/9 fatal dogs attacks are by XL Bullies) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comA year into the XL bully ban, one thing is clear: it is not the solution to dog attacks | Elle HuntThe legislation is confusing and may actually increase the risks. There is an solution, but it involves improving human behaviour, says freelance writer Elle Hunt 000
Matt Bold @boldmatt.bsky.social · 17/01/2025At this point the Not Picked Wales XV might beat the real XV #Wales #Rugby #SixNations 1. Carre* 2. Coughlan 3. Henry 4. Davies 5. Fender 6. Cracknell 7. Basham 8. Morris 9. Hardy 10. Evans 11. Dyer 12. Owen 13. Llewellyn 14. Rosser 15. Winnett *25 cap rule 110