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Matt Carr

@mattcarr.substack.com
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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

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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 27/09/2026
Mt substack newsletter on Andy Burnham's meeting with Trump. mattcarr.substack.com/p/mmm-yup?ut...
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Mmm, yup
Manchester Goes to New York
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lethargy in place of strategy. New post on my fortnightly Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at the urgent lessons from the Reform mega-donations, Piddington, and the growth of the far right; reset inertia; and the real lessons from Canada & Carney: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/leth...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 22/09/2026
I know some people will call Burnham a 'Trump whisperer' and describe his grovelling as 'clever diplomacy' but it reeks of cowardice, collusion and amoral acceptance of the mad king's agenda. So weak and so depressing and so horribly predictable
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 06/09/2026
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Patriots on Parade
From Stop the Boats to Stop the Cars
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 05/09/2026
This Nazi/ICE balaclavad paramilitary filth on the streets of Dover feels very much like a Musk/Yaxley-Lennon production. This is also the future Reform/Restore have in store for us. Police seem much better at hauling away Palestine Action pensioners than dealing with this rabble. I wonder why?
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 04/09/2026
Nadine Dorries on C4 News today. What a gross spectacle. Black eyes oozing hatred, stupidity, aggression and resentment. Mouth twisted from cynicism and dishonesty. Head swaying - is it booze or pills? Lying, like she's been doing all her horrible political life. A travesty of a human.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 23/08/2026
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Cruel To Be Cruel
The Death of Jason Arday
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 17/08/2026
Reflections on the billionaire space race, SpaceX and attendant disorders. mattcarr.substack.com/p/a-rocket-o...
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A Rocket on the Moon
In the Path of Singularity
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 09/08/2026
Reflections on the 'invasion' of Ceuta and its weaponisation: mattcarr.substack.com/p/barbarians...
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Barbarians at the Gates?
The ‘Invasion’ of Ceuta
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 07/08/2026
The World Cup is over, but you can still read my piece in @Historia about the history behind Latin American hostility to the Argentinian football team. historiamag.com/argentina-fo...
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Argentina: football and history – Historia Magazine
The unpopularity of Argentina goes back much further than the reaction to their behaviour during the 2026 World Cup. It's rooted in the 150-year-old idea that "Argentines came from boats from Europe" ...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 04/08/2026
Another reason to be grateful to Mic Wright.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 03/08/2026
There are those who only want us to think about migrants in boats. But we really need to be thinking about this: substack.com/@mattcarr/no...
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World on Fire
The Future is Here
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 01/08/2026
Nice review of my novel from the Historical Novel Society #booksky #historicalfiction @historia emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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The Emperor of Seville - Historical Novel Society
Spain, 1586. There has been a murder of an important banker, Sandro Grandoni, and so magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza has been sent to discover what has been going on and to bring the murderer to justic...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 26/07/2026
My substack newsletter on the madman in the White House and his enablers #Iran #US-Iranwar open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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US-Iran: The Madman's War
Who’s Crazy Now?
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 24/07/2026
As we watch the horrific #wildfires devastate France and Spain, I hope people will remember the politicians & individuals that did so much to prevent any attempts to address the #climateemergency, who called net zero a woke anticapitalist scam etc etc. So much to answer for. They never will.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 22/07/2026
@historia-hwa.bsky.social Hi. I've been trying to contact Frances to pitch pieces but never get a reply. Suspect I'm going to spam. Can you help please?
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 20/07/2026
For those Interested in knowing more about how #Argentina became the way it is, check out my book Darwin’s Savages. ##booksky #books #History www.hurstpublishers.com/book/darwins...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 20/07/2026
I wrote this before the #WorldCup final yesterday. But actually #Argentina were worse than I thought. Played like sulky ungracious thugs. Thank god they lost. open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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Don’t Score for Me Argentina
The World Cup Comes to an End
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 20/07/2026
On #BookBub #ebook deals today. The Emperor of Seville for 99p. You can also buy The Devils of Cardona for the same price: www.amazon.co.uk/Emperor-Sevi... #BookSky #books #Seville #Historicalfiction
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 19/07/2026
My substack newsletter on #Argentina, the #WorldCup and related matters. substack.com/@mattcarr/no...
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Don’t Score for Me Argentina
The World Cup Comes to an End
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 19/07/2026
Things you can buy for 0.99 p: Kitchen foil Cat treats 15 m garden wire And now (drum roll) for a limited period, you can also travel back in time to the 16th century by buying my historical crime novel The Emperor of Seville for the same price! #booksky www.amazon.co.uk/Emperor-Sevi...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 13/07/2026
Looking for some summer reading? Like historical fiction? Why not try The Emperor of Seville? First three replies to this post get a free digital copy. #booksky www.amazon.co.uk/Emperor-Sevi...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 13/07/2026
Even by his own detestable standards, Farage’s self-serving attempts to use Ann Widdecombe's murder politically, despite a police request not to, are a shocking new low.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 12/07/2026
My substack piece on Mosley-Farage's by-election gambit. open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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The Binfire of the Vanities
Mosley-Farage Goes to the People
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 11/07/2026
Chris Grey. Essential analysis as always.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 05/07/2026
My substack newsletter on Citizen Vigilante, Elon Musk's extremism and the failure to confront it: open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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We Need to Talk About Elon
One Man in a KKKhole
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 04/07/2026
Interesting how the stench of sleaze follows Mosley-Farage wherever he goes. Anyone would think he is nothing but a low-life grifter, a liar and a crook.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I do hope Austria v Spain is known as the Habsburg Derby. Whoever loses, I’m sure they’ll take it on the chin.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 28/06/2026
Reached into my inner Froissart and William of Malmesbury for this one: open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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Chronicles of Brexitland
Chapter XLV: How the King of the North Went South
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 24/06/2026
Badenoch: to know her is to loathe her. And also, to be astonished that such an unpleasant and arrogant know- nothing should ever have become the leader of a political party. But then it is the Conservative Party.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 23/06/2026
This loathsome void.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 21/06/2026
My substack newsletter on Briain's fascist slide and its facilitators open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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Britain's Fascist Slide
The Perpetrators and the Facilitators
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 16/06/2026
For your #summer reading, why not try the second of my Bernardo de Mendoza series, set in sleazy, sweltering 16th century Seville: aspectsofcrime.com/the-emperor-...
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The Emperor of Seville by Matthew Carr – Review - Aspects of Crime
The Emperor of Seville by Matthew Carr – Review The 2nd Bernardo de Mendoza mystery, after The Devils of Cardona. A gripping murder mystery that paints a picture of sixteenth century Spain, the financ...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 16/06/2026
Free digital copies of The Empire of Seville going to the first three people who answer these questions: aspectsofcrime.com/the-emperor-...
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The Emperor of Seville by Matthew Carr – Review - Aspects of Crime
The Emperor of Seville by Matthew Carr – Review The 2nd Bernardo de Mendoza mystery, after The Devils of Cardona. A gripping murder mystery that paints a picture of sixteenth century Spain, the financ...
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 14/06/2026
In case you've forgotten, the #WorldCup is underway!
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In case you missed it 👇
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There is too much focus on Musk and too little focus on how British politics and media have created the conditions for the pogroms in Belfast. Yes, Musk and X should face consequences but it‘s too easy the externalize the reasons for an empowered far right.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 11/06/2026
My substack piece on the #WorldCup from hell World Cups past. open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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2026 FIFA
Welcome to the World Cup from Hell
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Trump gets the "FIFA Peace Prize." Months later his DOJ drops a bribery case involving FIFA officials. FIFA "leases" office space at Trump Tower NYC that reportedly sits empty. Meanwhile, federal regulators look the other way as FIFA price gouges fans. Where's the red card when you need it?
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 10/06/2026
One thing about the bully: he (it's usually a he) is always the victim of intolerable wrong. This belief enables him to torment, beat up and even kill the weak and feel justified doing it. A rule that applies equally to Nazis, Israelis and the Belfast pogroms.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 03/06/2026
Forensic dissection of how some of the worst 'commentators' in the country are exploiting the Henry Nowak tragedy for political gain whilst also pretending they have a moral compass and a heart.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 02/06/2026
For readers of historical fiction, first three correct replies to these 3 questions get a free digital copy of my novel The Emperor of Seville. 1) Who commanded the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto? 2) Which king was known as The Prudent King? 3) Name the patron saint of El Escorial
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 31/05/2026
23 years after promoting a war on false pretences, Tony Blair wants the UK to join another one. mattcarr.substack.com/p/the-psycho...
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The Return of the Thin White Ghoul
Tony Blair and our Age of Monsters
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 24/05/2026
Hi there. I'm Nigel Farage. I was given £5 million to a) ensure I would be protected for life b) as a reward for Brexit. Also, Russia hacked my phone and stopped me from keeping it secret and I want you to feel sorry for me and also give my party your vote.
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Lie Detector Needle Swings to Lie
ALT: Lie Detector Needle Swings to Lie
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 24/05/2026
Reflections on the Makerfield by-election and the 'King of the North': open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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Burnham Down the House
The Mysteries of Makerfield
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The smell of BS in the morning…. Farage is clearly very worried about this £5m bung from Harborne. And rightly so - British voters really don’t like big money in politics, Reform voters as much as anyone So Farage is trying everything to distract from the crypto bros bankrolling Reform.
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 20/05/2026
Outstanding work from Republicans in throwing out one of the members of the GOP with any courage or integrity, because he had the temerity to demand the full release of the #Epstein files and demand full accountability for the paedophile president. Hope everyone who did this feels suitably proud
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 18/05/2026
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Labour Implodes
And No one Knows What Happens Next
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