Reposted by Keith MatthewsSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize 7987411
Reposted by Keith MatthewsMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance. 744291966045
Reposted by Keith MatthewsAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That 'Keminaissance' in full 2437287
Reposted by Keith MatthewsIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film. 4653115838
Reposted by Keith MatthewsAdam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just as a counterpoint to some of the obituaries this morning, here's the start of the Archer chapter in my history of political lying, The Lies of the Land: 29401103
Reposted by Keith MatthewsRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists. 60073201803
Reposted by Keith MatthewsShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026somehow the game played in Australia with a team that showed up 5 min before kickoff with a coach who thought jet lag was a liberal conspiracy and another coach with a concussion was higher quality than this one 310813
Reposted by Keith MatthewsPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?independent.co.ukChemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at riskThe move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site 23292135
Reposted by Keith MatthewsPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🔴 Manchester City is what happens when the rich and powerful believe money trumps any rules or regulations I've written about club football's biggest ever scandal, and interviewed the brilliant @migueldelaney.bsky.social, for Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/manchester...democracyforsale.substack.comManchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal"I spoke to author Miguel Delaney about the UAE, industrial-scale cheating and football's “financial wild west.” 1522365
Reposted by Keith MatthewsCosyGapko @cosygapko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So UAE threatening the UK by saying investment will be affected in future if Man City charges are upheld…. Basically “let us cheat”. Integrity not a thing then. Laughable, if they’re not expelled then the games done with. 40942212
Reposted by Keith MatthewsDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I was thinking to myself earlier this week that it's better for the economy and the world to have 1,000 people who can afford a Rolls Royce than one person who can afford 1,000 Rolls Royces. It's weird to see a similar message in a political ad as if I manifested it. I agree with this 100%. 17863166
Reposted by Keith MatthewsGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied. 361376619
Reposted by Keith MatthewsMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think this will be one of the defining images of the Premier League's void years: a proudly working class fanbase celebrating that the ruling family of an oppressive regime had hired a barrister on £10,000-an-hour to try and prevent them suffering consequences for their cheating. Embarrassing. 23326112
Reposted by Keith MatthewsIndependent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wouldn’t disagree with much that Burnham said today in what was an excellent speech. But… 90% of the substance is focused on England catching up with Scotland (Bus fares, rail nationalisation, water in public control, free social care and PR in elections). Not much for Scotland except Unionism! 89655
Reposted by Keith MatthewsJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇 900264989108
Reposted by Keith MatthewsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it. 1232644516
Reposted by Keith MatthewsMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...premierleague.comPremier League Statement: Manchester City FCAn independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation. 622188
Reposted by Keith MatthewsAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack. 61596146
Reposted by Keith MatthewsDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Great photo from NYT’s Doug Mills appears to show authoritarian Xi Jinpeng gesturing toward the WH wall where Joe Biden is depicted as an autopen. Xi’s expression, to me, says “even I couldn’t get away with this shit” 5743381
Reposted by Keith MatthewsAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026BREAKING: Trump appointed judge orders the White House to immediately restore press credentials. 1503734906
Reposted by Keith MatthewsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Two times Conservative British Home Secretary Suella Braverman here... X-ing away without an apparent care for the paradox 6648689
Reposted by Keith MatthewsJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A characteristically coruscating thread from Mr Snow. 2353190
Reposted by Keith Matthews“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 24/09/2026🇬🇧 🏴 Captain Thugwash 🏴🇪🇺😎 1316244
Reposted by Keith MatthewsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president. 34567501532
Reposted by Keith MatthewsFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Laura Kuenssberg asks if it bothers Labour's Bridget Phillipson that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax, citing, Jim Ratcliffe, move abroad - except, that's not the full story. My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million? 60751329
Reposted by Keith MatthewsDoug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I didn't know any of this. Of course, none of it matters to someone who supports Trump. 841489586
Reposted by Keith MatthewsRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC. 18751215
Reposted by Keith MatthewsAlexander Laufer @alexlaufer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Even just replacing "AI" by "software" paints such a different picture. "our software broke out and hacked some organisations". Who's reponsible now? 422369
Reposted by Keith MatthewsIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo... 561582563
Reposted by Keith MatthewsJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Ok, so Liz Truss has taken up a job in Florida to talk about how to get Britain - the country that thinks she was a monumental failure - "back on track". Staying there would help... 4844086
Reposted by Keith MatthewsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyonestatic.klipy.comWW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic StorefrontALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront 411257560
Reposted by Keith Matthewsthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here 111112181906
Reposted by Keith MatthewsAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 17/09/20261/22 Two stories in #TheHormuzCrisis caught me this morning. The first is the reported US-Houthi understanding over Red Sea shipping. The second is Saudi Arabia finding a new way to move crude through Oman after damage to its Red Sea export route and Yanbu. 12811
Reposted by Keith MatthewsLisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.  329252975777
Reposted by Keith MatthewsFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/09/20262016: Nigel Farage says that if we Brexit other countries will also leave the EU 2026: Canada's Mark Carney accepts the Ursula von der Leyen's invite to explore becoming the first Associate Member of the EU My commentary follows, including a clip of Liz Truss saying Brexit will make us poorer 15375115
Reposted by Keith MatthewsThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Party that wants to retrospectively change rules so as to remove migrants also says retrospective rules on party funding are "dictatorship tactics". 171065334
Reposted by Keith MatthewsAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture. 11246211322
Reposted by Keith MatthewsPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues. 31570522532
Reposted by Keith MatthewsJonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Okay, so let’s get one of those. 30872146
Reposted by Keith MatthewsAndrew Howard @amhoward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This annoys me greatly, you’re the fucking government, you have the power to do something about it. 46512
Reposted by Keith MatthewsPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026US Justice Dept and Reform donor Ben Delo. Pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Built a company designed to flout US law; willfully failed to implement and maintain even basic anti-money laundering policies. $10 million criminal fine. 30 months of probation, waived by Trump.justice.gov 12339188
Reposted by Keith MatthewsRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026UK politics has never been a level-playing field financially. The Conservatives have always outspent other parties, & smaller parties invariably struggle for cash. But this is a different order of magnitude. It's the difference between having a larger army & an atomic bomb. Parliament *must* act. 637174
