Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialNettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week. 17270882919
mattooo.bsky.social @mattooo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026@marina-purkiss.bsky.social Nigel Farage owned Reform at the time he received the £5million 020
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news. 6743621523
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026GB News spreading stochastic terrorism via the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory. If only the UK had some sort of broadcast standards body. @ofcom.bsky.social 27312
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Farage is clearly misleading the public. The main reason that net migration fell by 445,000 (year to June 2025 it was 205k, having been 649k a year before) is that immigration fell by 401,000. The BBC should fact-check/verify and report that this was untrue. 8496184
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialThe News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 28/01/2026"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears" - George Orwell, 1984 As Trump removes the border patrol chief from Minneapolis after a second fatal ICE shooting, have observers have now become the city's eyes and ears? 48023
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialEddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Not many things in life will have you pumping your fist in the air, but watching little Tommy Robinson’s (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s) face and bravado drop when he gets called out for his racism and hypocrisy by boxer Ty Mitchell is one of them. This is glorious. 🔥 42968251
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Paul, in his Aston Martin gilet, 10 years from retirement, living in one of the most expensive houses in one of the best places in Britain, with savings and investments worth £2-4mil (excluding anything he has in tax-free ISAs), who has earned enough in his lifetime to pay “millions in taxes”… 8/ 660559
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...thetimes.comCovid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deathsLockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds 16039921405
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/11/2025To knit together two stories: through intimidation, litigation & extortion, Trump is clearly trying to create a media ecosystem where nobody asks him about Epstein - or indeed anything discomfiting. It is appalling to see so many UK media individuals & institutions aiding & abetting his corruption. 651585374
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/11/2025SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA 7541031312
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/11/2025www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jam...thelondoneconomic.comJames O'Brien's analysis of BBC Trump controversy perfectly sums up madness of it allJames O'Brien has perfectly summed up the madness at the heart of the controversy over the BBC's editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama programme. 20406108
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels. 852304476
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds. 901637395
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialBlasphemous Jones ↙️ @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 22/10/2025"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea... 36367311907
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 22/10/2025People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam. 14638581047
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialRhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes. 13877601966
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialDom White @domw.bsky.social · 07/10/2025"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?" Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census. 44536190
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you. 491438236
mattooo.bsky.social @mattooo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025@thejeremyvine.bsky.social given up on Bluesky Jeremy? 000
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialSilkabelli (cittadina UE 🇪🇺) @silkabelli.eurosky.social · 16/09/2025Queen 155108834489
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.yahoo.comLet’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy KimmelTrump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet. 19816136519518
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome 14402696010662
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference 501607579
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialStop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Foreigners from a backwards, woman-hating culture are influencing our politics & spreading dangerous, degrading messages about domestic violence. But Keir Starmer has invited their leader to a banquet with the king. @uklabour.bsky.social How does this fit in with your VAWG agenda?🤦♀️ 38638
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 03/09/2025He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens. 1822109546
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?" 1371611595
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/09/2025net immigration fell by more than half last year and the politics has gone in the complete opposite direction. It's not really about the numbers 25752262
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 29/08/2025My morning beef with Nick Ferrari on @lbc over his double standards… 53480109
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh… Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population) Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK Immigration isn’t draining us Inequality is. 241257395
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I do think X is seriously damaging the brains of the UK political class. It's wildly unrepresentative of actual public opinion but is still being treated as such. (Bluesky isn't representative either obviously but no one treats it as such). 1777199
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 27/08/2025"Bluntly, if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself."- on.ft.com/3HKB1zO via @stephenkb.bsky.socialon.ft.comLabour can’t turn voters against Nigel Farage if it doesn’t attack himIf government won’t call out the dangers of the Reform leader’s policies now, when will it? 11302117
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialArmando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 27/08/2025The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1082253876
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there. 9465402469
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialAlan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation 27548821974
mattooo.bsky.social @mattooo.bsky.social · 14/07/2025@mrjamesob.bsky.social PLEASE get yourself out and about on some of these call in shows to take on the likes of Charlie Mullin et al. 010
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialWill Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 30/06/2025London is over 291482447
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialSimon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 18/06/2025This is one of the most powerful things you’ll watch online or TV. It puts the Tories, and in particular Kemi Badenoch, to shame. Not to mention anyone else who has tried to use the horror of the grooming gangs for political point-scoring. 1920995
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers. 16444911089
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/05/2025The U.K. fishing industry - weaponised & then betrayed & then abandoned, by Johnson, Farage & the rest of them - is better off under Starmer’s deal than it was under Johnson’s. That’s not an opinion. It’s counting. Anyone claiming otherwise is a liar. 953514867
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialHugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why. 1331659447
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Brexit. Trump. Truss. Boris Johnson. Netanyahu… It never ceases to amaze me just how much of our media & politicians waltz away unscathed after being so catastrophically & hideously wrong about all the major moments of our time. 1062178406
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2025As mass murder and genocide escalate in #Gaza, the UK government should denounce them, cut off all support to Netanyahu's government and assist in its prosecution. Instead, Starmer silences his ministers. In doing so, he facilitates the crimes. 691777548
mattooo.bsky.social @mattooo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Hey @thejeremyvine.bsky.social, I recommend watching @lewisgoodall.com interviewing that Jan Halper Hayes today. I shall say no more. 041
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ 391896676
Reposted by @mattooo.bsky.socialSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Badenoch has no moral ground to cling to. She is fully in the swamp, flailing around and just covering herself in stink. 1043858
