Matthew Sweet
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Lovely to see that the Choral is a prequel to A Cream Cracker Under the Settee.
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Lovely to see that the Choral is a prequel to A Cream Cracker Under the Settee.
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OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
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Terrible news: Rachel Cooke has died. She was 56.
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Terrible news: Rachel Cooke has died. She was 56.
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?
In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and in...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry
www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...
Hail Mary! Here’s my bit on del Toro’s wonderfully Catholic Frankenstein www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/how-...
How Netflix turned Frankenstein Catholic
Director Guillermo del Toro has soaked his adaptation in Catholic imagery, but Frankenstein was written by a Protestant
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hail Mary! Here’s my bit on del Toro’s wonderfully Catholic Frankenstein www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/how-...
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Over the past decade Mark Bradford, Simone Leigh, Jeffrey Gibson, and Martin Puryear occupied that Jeffersonian space—the “mini Monticello” that is the American pavilion—with complex, beautiful institutional critiques of America. Now we can look forward to authoritarian aesthetics in their place.
US Government Calls for Venice Biennale Proposals Focused on “American Values”
The newly opened grant portal for the United States pavilion features updated Trumpian language and a shortened timeline for applications.
hyperallergic.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Over the past decade Mark Bradford, Simone Leigh, Jeffrey Gibson, and Martin Puryear occupied that Jeffersonian space—the “mini Monticello” that is the American pavilion—with complex, beautiful institutional critiques of America. Now we can look forward to authoritarian aesthetics in their place.
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Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein in conversation with Bill Sherman exploring the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#GothicModern #ArtHistory #Modernity
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#GothicModern #ArtHistory #Modernity
Warburg Director's Seminar - Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined
This event explores the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein in conversation with Bill Sherman exploring the discoveries, insights and inspiration of the Gothic as a pivotal site for re-imagining modern art.
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#GothicModern #ArtHistory #Modernity
📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg
warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#GothicModern #ArtHistory #Modernity
Oddly the actual piece says it’s impossible for him to sue the BBC and win.
The Telegraph appearing to side with a foreign President over British licence fee payers
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Oddly the actual piece says it’s impossible for him to sue the BBC and win.
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My grandfather only liked Salt & Vinegar crisps and was a prolific consumer of them. Yet they were only invented in 1967 when he was in his mid 50's.
I hope something so delicious and life changing will be invented when I am that age and that I will be open to such life changing taste sensations
I hope something so delicious and life changing will be invented when I am that age and that I will be open to such life changing taste sensations
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My grandfather only liked Salt & Vinegar crisps and was a prolific consumer of them. Yet they were only invented in 1967 when he was in his mid 50's.
I hope something so delicious and life changing will be invented when I am that age and that I will be open to such life changing taste sensations
I hope something so delicious and life changing will be invented when I am that age and that I will be open to such life changing taste sensations
These are of course gorgeous. (Look closely at the bottom row.)
My TV Crime Penguin Postcard series is now available as a choose-your-own quintet. Get your bunch of fives here: colemandesign.co.uk/tv-crime-pen...
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
These are of course gorgeous. (Look closely at the bottom row.)
Make Letraset Great Again
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Make Letraset Great Again
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Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train
news.sky.com/story/train-...
news.sky.com/story/train-...
Train company LNER 'extremely proud' of rail worker in critical condition after mass stabbing as family call him 'hero'
Samir Zitouni, 48, was injured while trying to protect passengers during the mass stabbing on Saturday.
news.sky.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train
news.sky.com/story/train-...
news.sky.com/story/train-...
Installing our show Liberation Radio at the Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. Opens Friday. Here’s a picture of the kitchen. indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/...
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Installing our show Liberation Radio at the Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. Opens Friday. Here’s a picture of the kitchen. indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/...
On Sergelstorg baht ‘at
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
On Sergelstorg baht ‘at
All Souls night in Skogskyrkogården
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
All Souls night in Skogskyrkogården
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Ghosts, witches and vampires in the Warburg Library?
Our latest blog takes a Halloween-inspired look at the Library’s Subject Catalogue — the card index that helps readers find specific topics scattered across the stacks.
Discover more:
Our latest blog takes a Halloween-inspired look at the Library’s Subject Catalogue — the card index that helps readers find specific topics scattered across the stacks.
Discover more:
The Warburg Library’s Subject Catalogue: ‘It doesn’t have to be scary’
blog
warburg.sas.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Ghosts, witches and vampires in the Warburg Library?
Our latest blog takes a Halloween-inspired look at the Library’s Subject Catalogue — the card index that helps readers find specific topics scattered across the stacks.
Discover more:
Our latest blog takes a Halloween-inspired look at the Library’s Subject Catalogue — the card index that helps readers find specific topics scattered across the stacks.
Discover more:
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This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
Me in the Economist on the inert postmodernism of Trump's ballroom, Ceausescu's palace, Jacob Zuma's swimming pool. (£) www.economist.com/culture/2025...
Lessons from history on renovating official buildings
They rarely start from solid foundations
www.economist.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Me in the Economist on the inert postmodernism of Trump's ballroom, Ceausescu's palace, Jacob Zuma's swimming pool. (£) www.economist.com/culture/2025...
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You don't get this level of technical jargon on Casualty. #Crossroads
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
You don't get this level of technical jargon on Casualty. #Crossroads
Pickled in time like gherkins in a jar
October 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Pickled in time like gherkins in a jar
Magisterial
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Magisterial
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Attention: a quick #PSA reminder that episode 1 of the once seen, never forgotten 1979s Scottish/German co-pro SF TV series Star Maidens is on Rewind (Freeview 81) at 1700, for any of you lucky enough to be free
Go on, treat yourself. It’s quite special.
Go on, treat yourself. It’s quite special.
October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Attention: a quick #PSA reminder that episode 1 of the once seen, never forgotten 1979s Scottish/German co-pro SF TV series Star Maidens is on Rewind (Freeview 81) at 1700, for any of you lucky enough to be free
Go on, treat yourself. It’s quite special.
Go on, treat yourself. It’s quite special.
It’s an old one, this. Gave a talk on this at @qedcon.org last week - how rancid old conspiracy theories are discovered anew by fresh generations of gullible chumps.
Even the conspiracy theories are getting dumber.
Just had lunch with a great friend and colleague who told me solemnly that the Labour Party is now controlled by the Fabians and that Fabians are radical communists. This is my first real world sighting of this amazing idea.
October 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It’s an old one, this. Gave a talk on this at @qedcon.org last week - how rancid old conspiracy theories are discovered anew by fresh generations of gullible chumps.
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OMG the FT is hiring a junior arts editor -- what a terrific opportunity! job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
Junior Arts Editor
London
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
OMG the FT is hiring a junior arts editor -- what a terrific opportunity! job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Have started listening to the 'Welcome to Jurassic Park' Theme every morning when I wake up, to start the day. Best thing I have ever done for my mental health. Can literally deal with anything after those 7.55mins. Thoroughly recommend.
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Have started listening to the 'Welcome to Jurassic Park' Theme every morning when I wake up, to start the day. Best thing I have ever done for my mental health. Can literally deal with anything after those 7.55mins. Thoroughly recommend.