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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Also. Everybody listen to the latest edition of @feap.bsky.social's The Stack on Monocle Radio, in which @chrisharrigan.bsky.social introduces the spectacular debut print edition of @thestoryau.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
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‘GQ France’, 15 years of ‘Delayed Gratification’ and new Australian title ‘The Story’ - Monocle
We celebrate 15 years of Delayed Gratification with Rob Orchard. Plus: Chris Harrigan of new Australian title The Story and...
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Much needed – a campaign for better paternity leave in the UK dadshift.org.uk
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The Dad Shift
It's time the UK had a paternity leave policy fit for the 21st century. Join the campaign now.
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
As a person – and possibly the only person – who supports both Leeds United and Barnet FC, yesterday was the greatest day in the history of sport. Promotion to the Premier League and near-as-dammit promotion to the Football League all in one marvellous afternoon. #LUFC #BarnetFC
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The contrast between a society that realises democracy is at stake and one that doesn’t.
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
There's an excellent report on the latest goings-on and fallings-out at Tower Hamlets council by @samgelder.bsky.social for London Spy. The collapse of local media has left us pretty much in the dark during the government’s inspection so thankful for Sam doing this work
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding," says Steven Levitsky. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say (Gift Article)
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts goes beyond what has happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, where leaders spent years remaking the judiciary.
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Most underrated London band right now www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
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‘Saying you’re in a jangle-pop band is a red flag’: the Tubs talk speed, squalor and their glorious second album
As they embark on a UK tour, the band’s frontman recounts how terrible dates, struggles with OCD and a family tragedy all fed into their new record
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"We need to take back control of the word “journalism” and leave 'content creation' to others."
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
So here for the dosa coverage at @vittles.bsky.social – a proper treat to get a newsletter about London's best Indian crepes today. I've been busy exploring the east London chaat scene – without doubt the best way to spend £3 or less in the city
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This was a good listen, and particularly resonant because it happened at my secondary school, a couple of years before I joined. Was taught by some of the teachers mentioned; not at all surprised that a 14-year-old victim of sexual abuse would have been considered 'lucky' back then
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Worth taking the time to reread this NYT story on Rodrigo Duterte's brutal 'war on drugs' from 2016 – and feel glad he's now in the Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity, even if his arrest is more about the Marcos-Duterte family feud than the rule of law www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’ (Published 2016)
Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days.
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Jim Ghedi and his band were so good at Moth Club last night. His new album, Wasteland, is perhaps my favourite of 2025 to date – big, bold, dark and ambitious folk-rock, with lyrics worth paying attention to jimghedi.bandcamp.com/album/wastel...
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Wasteland, by Jim Ghedi
10 track album
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Seen many James Graham plays but The Punch at Young Vic might be the best of the punch. Fantastic acting and incredibly moving www.youngvic.org/whats-on/punch
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Punch
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I've managed to not mention politics on social media for three years because it's not good for my health. But right now I can't hold it in. Fuck Trump. Fuck Vance. They are the worst of humanity and bring shame to America. Solidarity with Ukraine.
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Brilliant news. Probably my favourite podcast, though Jonathan Goldstein's CBC show WireTap comes close www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...
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‘Heavyweight,’ an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast, Returns
Pushkin Industries, the podcast company that will release the show, is betting that documentary-style audio programs can still win an audience.
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Sad news about Bill Fay. There's a moment in Mia Hansen-Love's One Fine Morning when Fay's Love Will Remain comes on and it's just perfect pitchfork.com/news/bill-fa...
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Bill Fay, Cult British Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 81
Having released two albums in the early 1970s, Fay experienced a late-in-life career revival after being rediscovered by musicians including Jim O’Rourke and Jeff Tweedy
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem was raided today, and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Mona, were arrested. The bookstore is one of the premier Palestinian cultural institutions of East Jerusalem; Mahmoud Mona is among the most inspiring figures in the city. via @nirhasson.bsky.social
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I went to Southport three months after the awful events of July to write about the community response and the possibility of healing www.slow-journalism.com/long-reads/p...
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Picking up the pieces
In the last photo taken of Alice da Silva Aguiar, shared by her family on the day of her funeral, she is standing next to a life-sized cardboard cut-o
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Seeing Mainliner, with Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple, in a tiny Osaka basement club owned by a guitarist from the Boredoms, was a very worthwhile Japanoise pilgrimage (though my ears are still ringing, despite the earplugs)
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A tough read but remarkable reporting.
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
The only end-of-year list that really matters is finally here. It's my unsolicited, massively self-indulgent, tremendous waste-of-time top 60 albums of the year list
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
It's my X anniversary! I joined 15 years ago today. I celebrated the big day by deactivating my account.
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Delayed Gratification @dgquarterly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Use discount code BLUESKY5 to get £5 off a gift subscription to Delayed Gratification. If you have friends or family who find the relentless news cycle exhausting and disheartening, our reflective quarterly review will make the ideal gift www.slow-journalism.com/subscribe
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I hope everyone will watch this video from Syria. Extraordinary, terrifying and hopeful moments. It's a reminder of why we fight. www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/w...
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‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention | CNN
While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime’s legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN’s Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncover...
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Biased Xmas gift advice: nothing beats a subscription to the world's first Slow Journalism publication. Message me for a discount code www.slow-journalism.com/subscribe
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Alma's Not Normal is my favourite British sitcom in ages. Eccentric, angry at times heartbreakingly sad; brilliant acting, complex characters, extremely funny.
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Surprised to see that Vice News still exists. But less surprised to see Shane Smith pivoting towards far right conspiracy theories
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
'Cook Pass Babtridge' next time please. Easier to explain to my five-year-old when I stop to take a photo
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Heard so many weird, wonderful and beautiful audio stories on Short Cuts over the years, and most of them would never have been aired on national radio without Short Cuts. Hope the BBC reconsider
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Twitter/X stopped working for us around the time Musk took over. Feeling positive about Bluesky
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today's uplifting music news: a first album in 19 years from Edith Frost. Her first four are all wonderful, and there's a free album of demos on her website that I've often returned to over the years edithfrost.com/album/275641...
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Demos
Studio versions of these songs can be found on my albums <a href="http://www.dragcity.com/products/calling-over-time">Calling Over Time</a> (1997), <a href="http://www.dragcity.com/products/telescopic...
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Waited two and a half years for this guy to reach the UK and his near two hour set didn't disappoint. Wild how popular he suddenly is - lots of people (Lenderfans? Lendermaniacs?) singing along to every word
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Currently writing an article for Delayed Gratification about the aftermath of the Southport attacks and riots. Last year, when a similar series of incidents happened in Ireland, I focused on the rise of the far right www.slow-journalism.com/long-reads/i...
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“Nothing like this ever happens here” | Delayed Gratification
Cliff Nolan finished work later than usual on 23rd November 2023, the day three young children and a care worker were stabbed outside a Dublin primary
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The likelihood of the world's second-most powerful vindictive thin-skinned narcissist falling out with the world's most powerful vindictive thin-skinned narcissist is somewhere north of 99 percent. I'll give the Musk/Trump partnership a year, and that's being generous
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Tell Them You Love Me, a documentary about a white female professor's sexual abuse of a non-verbal black man, is fascinating, disturbing and impressively sensitive and even-handed. One of the best docs I've seen in some time www.sky.com/watch/tell-t...
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
'Is It Like Today?' is a perfect pop song. Sad news www.theguardian.com/music/2024/m...
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
How To with John Wilson is the best thing on TV. New series now on iPlayer – have seen it all and it does not disappoint www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
I still haven't settled on my 2023 album of the year, but the record I've listened to the most is Growing at the Edges by Mutual Benefit. It's just gloriously beautiful – perfectly crafted and optimistic – and they're playing in London later this month dice.fm/event/qlpwx-...
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Mutual Benefit Tickets | £19.25 | 20 Mar @ St Matthias Church, London | DICE
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Catching up with the last handful of episodes of Jonathan Goldstein's Heavyweight, now it's been released from Spotify's grip. It really is one of the greatest podcasts ever made – exquisite, heartwarming storytelling. Really hope it finds a new home www.ft.com/content/f514...
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Just uploaded a great piece my Delayed Gratification colleague @jamespiotr.bsky.social wrote about Jerry Springer, who was born on the platform of Highgate Tube station 80 years ago today www.slow-journalism.com/long-reads/b...
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Becoming Jerry Springer
“I’m Jerry Springer and I want to be your governor. After sharing some specific solutions for our unemployment and education problems in the state
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Matthew Lee @matthewinlondon.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
'Putin vs the West' is superb, and I'd love to know how Norma Percy secures interviews with everyone short of Putin himself. The last four British PMs, secretaries-general of Nato/UN, the CIA head, Zelensky… Is this thanks to personal connections, the lure of the BBC, a crack team of reseachers…?
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