Sign in

Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ

@matwatkinson.bsky.social
180 followers 244 following 255 posts

Slacker, name-dropper, former BBC journalist, 70s rock club DJ, socialist & piner after a return to the EU

PostsRepliesMedia
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
No words … www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...
theguardian.com
Gentleman’s Relish is toast after its maker axes the pungent anchovy spread
Falling sales end production of condiment created in 1828 – but London restaurant Simpson’s keeps it on the menu
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Could it be that @virginmedia can’t offer support through X Twitter because @elonmusk owns a large internet company called @Starlink ?
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Good morning,@BBCr4today. It’s pronounced Alfa Sentory, not Sentewereye. Alpha Centauri
010 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Yesterday’s @theguardian.com has a piece on The Joys of ageing,about how us old people see colour. Or ‘color,’ as they call it. Later, quoting from a UK university research paper, they talk about ‘gray.’ My ‘joy’ doesnt include embracing American versions of English, which easily trumps arthritis.
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Is there any update on Jeff Lynne’s health? His illness and Dave Edmunds’s have reminded me - not that I’d forgotten - that we need to let the people who help shape our lives know how much they mean to us, while they’re around to know.
011 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It’s a very simple formula.. Reform make a lot of noise (without any substance behind it), MSM lap it up and amplify it for them.. Giving the impression a 5 MP (as often 4 MPs due to turmoil) with just 10 councils, LibDems have 40, and Tories 33 are a mighty force given how much coverage they get 😡
bbc.co.uk
Reform UK declares war on Lincolnshire's net-zero projects - BBC News
MP Richard Tice and Lincolnshire mayor Andrea Jenkyns say they will fight green energy plans.
1722765 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Any clues as to why @theguardian.com published a photo of Paul Weller in its Saturday Staying In what’s on, but no explanation?
000 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/07/2025
The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
washingtonpost.com
U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread
Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.
68872583105 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
40 years ago, selfless people gave their time at Live Aid to try to save lives in Ethiopia but now as the Israeli government massacres innocent men, women and children, we can be locked up for begging our government to stop supporting the genocide. My, how times & the BBC have changed.
110 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If anyone knows how to pronounce his name, Heston Blumenthal does: he says “Bloomenthorl.” Wouldn’t it be a politeness for the people trailing his candid documentary about his own bipolar disorder to get it right? They say “Bloomentarl.”
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Having had the great privilege - and a lot of fun - to work for the BBC for twenty years, this makes sad reading: cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
cfmm.org.uk
BBC On Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards - Centre For Media Monitoring
010 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Starmer, Macron and Carney 'on the wrong side of humanity,' says Netanyahu. And his side is…?
010 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
@garylinker.bsky.social sad to see Mr L, an truly principled person, stitched up by his accidental repost of dodgy material. He’s a good man. Hope I’m not endorsing a fake account
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Go on, then. So, Race Across The World is taking place in the repressive country of China. How much of what we see is with permission of the government? Who agreed where they could go?
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I might be wrong but have the new owners @theobserveruk.bsky.social dumped the very necessary columns from Stewart Lee and David Mitchell?
010 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
@ryanairofficial.bsky.social how useless! Plane from Corfu delayed by 85 minutes! Which gate?
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Gluten frei?
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
People rarely deserve the government they get and the tragedy in Myanmar highlights its military rulers’ awfulness. Appealing for help from any country, someone needs to remind them of what kindness is. No-one would refuse but the country’s government’s a disgrace.
010 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Looking through possible food warming boxes for travel, I came across this, with an impressive number of positive reviews. And what does the marketing show being warmed? Salad!
010 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Sophie @anxi0usvirgo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year
368121954264 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
UK musicians hit with £914M+ loss post-Brexit. Streams, tickets, vinyl - it’s grim. Join @europeanmovement.co.uk to sign the petition: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/brexit_music...
europeanmovement.co.uk
Total Cost to Musicians Since Brexit - European Movement UK
The cost of Brexit to UK musicians is staggering. Discover the impact in Spotify streams, Wembley tickets, vinyl LPs, and more. Support the campaign and sign the petition!
051 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
😂😂😂
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/business/202... Surely if this company hadn’t rewarded investors at a time when it should’ve been improving its systems, this wouldn’t be necessary?
theguardian.com
Thames Water wins court backing for £3bn debt package
Deal approved at high court gives company £1.5bn in upfront cash to stave off collapse
000 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Happy International Crumpet Day, to all who celebrate! I once overheard someone getting annoyed with his friend on the train and instead of saying “you’re getting on my tits” or “you’re pissing me off,” he said “you’re burning my crumpets” (and I will not rest until this becomes a common expression)
3761486 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
The Random Jottings of Gildersleeve @gildy65.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Time for a coffee. Most food downstairs. I may have a small portion of jam on a piece of panini roll. Having slept most of the day I won't sleep for quite awhile. Music listening for the foreseeable.
032 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
22678147120157 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.
7712237010831 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 18/02/2025
"If the person who threw the suggestions box into the skip, returns it reception, nothing more will be said. Thank you."
bylines.scot
Bylines Scotland - Powerful Citizen Journalism
Nurturing democracy through not-for-profit citizen journalism
0152 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
You wont fit that on an A board, alas😕
000 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
American planes are crashing almost every day and the Secretary of Transportation is visiting the Daytona 500 and tweeting at Pete Buttigieg.
764360227911 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@bbclooknorth.bsky.social morning. Please tell Dave Edwards it’s Lower Graham School, not Lower Grantham 😁
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Why do so many people, including chefs who should know better, refer to almonds as “ollmuns”? greatbritishmenu
000 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Interesting how on one hand, the UK government’s being petitioned to stop harsh prison sentences for climate protests & on the other, it’s insisting more flights from a new runway are vital.
000 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Times essentially reprinted the Telegraph's nonsense story about "illegal migrants" [thread appended below.] They have now published a detailed correction. I expect the Telegraph to follow.
We wrongly said that a study on behalf of Thames Water showed “1 in 12 Londoners is an illegal migrant” (News, Jan 23). In fact the study covered only 7 million people in specific “water resource zones”, not the whole population of London, which is closer to 9 million. 1 in 12 was the highest of a range of estimates for the proportion of “irregular migrants”, but these estimates included some people who are not illegal immigrants, such as those given indefinite leave to remain, as well as some British-born children of migrants with irregular status.
501139390 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Demelza Klass (She/Her) 🇬🇧 @demelzaklass.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It’s about time all organisations came off xtwitter. Some German universities have, in my view it should be banned in the UK & Europe.
1111 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Good to be co-signatory to letter about urgency of introducing the #NaturalHistory GCSE pioneered by fab Mary Colwell. As she says, we must get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again & feel wonder & awe - if we only pass on to young people that Earth is a problem to be fixed, we’ll fail
1246487 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
In other news @bsky.app continues to fly 👏
4324615808 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Steve Richards @steverichards.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Rock n Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on Monday week at 7…a lot going on: www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
kingsplace.co.uk
Steve Richards presents Rock 'n' Roll Politics - The First Show of 2025 • Words • Kings Place
Political commentator and broadcaster, Steve Richards, presents the latest behind-the-scenes guide to the epic dramas and the characters shaping seismic events. How have we got here? What’s going to h...
1104 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A lot of this money certainly came to, or through, the UK, global #Corruption capital. I will keep pushing for government action to help uncover and recover it www.ft.com/content/c23a...
ft.com
Bangladesh hires Big Four audit firms to review ‘robbed’ banks
Central bank governor says EY, Deloitte and KPMG have already begun work after loss of estimated $17bn
1369 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Look at this sign. Look at this emblem. I mean REALLY look at it! He was telling us all along, wasn’t he.
1121179182 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
475276626876 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
The Artist Taxi Driver @chunkymark.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Artwork on newspaper 😎👉 www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
2268 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This is a disgrace. And Starmer’s failure to address it illustrates his lack of commitment to tackling the climate crisis & his callous disregard for people who care: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
Exclusive: Gaie Delap told she will have to serve 20 more days that correspond to period of time at home after recall
031 0
Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ @matwatkinson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
What a great example! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Former ‘Maga Granny’ refuses to accept Trump’s pardon for actions on January 6
Pamela Hemphill insists on taking responsibility for role she played in trying to overturn the 2020 election results
000 0
Reposted by Mat Watkinson - Penthouse DJ
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
HMRC denies running a "deliberately poor" phone service to push taxpayers to seek help online instead. 44,000 customers cut off without warning after being on hold for 70 minutes last yr, even worse now. So, wrong taxes paid, little people prosecuted and fined. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
HMRC denies 'deliberately poor' phone service for taxpayers
Thousands on hold to HMRC's helpline say they were cut off after waiting for 70 minutes.
35342173 0