Matt Yeo
@mattjyeo.bsky.social
Labour Cllr, Reading Borough Council. Lead Cllr for Housing Used to be an Elections manager. PhD in Sports Economics from Univ of Reading.
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Four weeks since I have been on X and it is actually amazing how quickly and easily it disappeared from my routine. The impact is all upside.
February 8, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Four weeks since I have been on X and it is actually amazing how quickly and easily it disappeared from my routine. The impact is all upside.
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Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 31% (=)
LAB: 23% (+1)
CON: 16% (-1)
GRN: 13% (+2)
LDM: 10% (-3)
Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 4-6 Feb.
Changes w/ 21-23 Jan.
RFM: 31% (=)
LAB: 23% (+1)
CON: 16% (-1)
GRN: 13% (+2)
LDM: 10% (-3)
Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 4-6 Feb.
Changes w/ 21-23 Jan.
February 8, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 31% (=)
LAB: 23% (+1)
CON: 16% (-1)
GRN: 13% (+2)
LDM: 10% (-3)
Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 4-6 Feb.
Changes w/ 21-23 Jan.
RFM: 31% (=)
LAB: 23% (+1)
CON: 16% (-1)
GRN: 13% (+2)
LDM: 10% (-3)
Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 4-6 Feb.
Changes w/ 21-23 Jan.
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If people are going to make money from social media, it seems so wildly obvious that what can be broadcast by the platforms is regulated in the same was as TV is.
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 9:04 AM
If people are going to make money from social media, it seems so wildly obvious that what can be broadcast by the platforms is regulated in the same was as TV is.
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‘We lived a miraculous thing’: Castel di Sangro, 30 years on from their epic rise
‘We lived a miraculous thing’: Castel di Sangro, 30 years on from their epic rise
Small town club’s Serie B adventure captivated football and inspired a famous book. That spirit remains and is being passed to their successors
The WhatsApp group flickers into life at about 6am every day. It is the manager who goes first because, when you are 79, old habits die hard. “Good morning,” Osvaldo Jaconi hails his former players and staff before, little by little, the salutations roll in from across Italy. Maybe it is someone’s birthday or another special occasion; the conversation may be accelerated by an in-joke that recalls why, three decades ago, they were brought together in the first place. Just in case anyone could forget, the group’s title says: “Serie B.”
This is how miracles stay alive. Perhaps it is the point of what Castel di Sangro achieved in 1995-96. A rag-tag bunch from this backwater in mountainous Abruzzo had risen from local amateur leagues and then, in a crowning triumph with little precedent, made it to the second tier. “It’s like 30 years haven’t passed,” says Angelo Petrarca, who was nominally the masseur but often resembled a one-man backroom. “It shows how much love everybody has for each other, and did back then. As if everybody is still right here.” Continue reading...
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February 8, 2026 at 7:10 AM
‘We lived a miraculous thing’: Castel di Sangro, 30 years on from their epic rise
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Martin O’Neill’s impact on Celtic’s season has been nothing short of outstanding.
16 games.
13 wins.
2 draws.
1 defeat - away in Europe to Midtylland.
38 goals scored and 12 conceded.
He has the team playing with belief and purpose again even when not at their best.
16 games.
13 wins.
2 draws.
1 defeat - away in Europe to Midtylland.
38 goals scored and 12 conceded.
He has the team playing with belief and purpose again even when not at their best.
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Martin O’Neill’s impact on Celtic’s season has been nothing short of outstanding.
16 games.
13 wins.
2 draws.
1 defeat - away in Europe to Midtylland.
38 goals scored and 12 conceded.
He has the team playing with belief and purpose again even when not at their best.
16 games.
13 wins.
2 draws.
1 defeat - away in Europe to Midtylland.
38 goals scored and 12 conceded.
He has the team playing with belief and purpose again even when not at their best.
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Good campaign session this afternoon in the Manchester rain for Angeliki Stogia in Gorton.☔️
Great to see 100s of supporters and volunteers out campaigning for Labour and 1,000s of conversations on the doorstep were had today.
#VoteLabour on February 26th.🌹🗳
Great to see 100s of supporters and volunteers out campaigning for Labour and 1,000s of conversations on the doorstep were had today.
#VoteLabour on February 26th.🌹🗳
February 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Good campaign session this afternoon in the Manchester rain for Angeliki Stogia in Gorton.☔️
Great to see 100s of supporters and volunteers out campaigning for Labour and 1,000s of conversations on the doorstep were had today.
#VoteLabour on February 26th.🌹🗳
Great to see 100s of supporters and volunteers out campaigning for Labour and 1,000s of conversations on the doorstep were had today.
#VoteLabour on February 26th.🌹🗳
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So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.
This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax
Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:58 AM
So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.
This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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This is who Michelle Obama is to me - a woman who instinctively knows when a hug & encouragement is needed. I refuse to repost the midnight madman’s racist rant. I choose to do what she did for me on this day - to center her, her compassion and love for others, her beauty and grace.
February 6, 2026 at 9:31 PM
This is who Michelle Obama is to me - a woman who instinctively knows when a hug & encouragement is needed. I refuse to repost the midnight madman’s racist rant. I choose to do what she did for me on this day - to center her, her compassion and love for others, her beauty and grace.
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Tommy Robinson hanging round schools again - who could have seen this coming
Trans teacher followed home by right-winger Tommy Robinson
A teacher was approached at home by Tommy Robinson after parents complained about them allegedly requesting to use the title 'Mx'.
www.thepinknews.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Tommy Robinson hanging round schools again - who could have seen this coming
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A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today.
The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.
#ShowYourStripes
The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.
#ShowYourStripes
February 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM
A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today.
The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.
#ShowYourStripes
The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.
#ShowYourStripes
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This by-election is bigger than day to day politics. It’s about stopping Reform’s toxic politics coming to my city. The Greens misleading claims, dodgy bar charts & briefings risk letting them in the back door. Only voting Labour can stop Reform. My letter to Green Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social 👇🏻
February 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This by-election is bigger than day to day politics. It’s about stopping Reform’s toxic politics coming to my city. The Greens misleading claims, dodgy bar charts & briefings risk letting them in the back door. Only voting Labour can stop Reform. My letter to Green Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social 👇🏻
How and why the cowardly Republicans haven't removed this disgrace of a man as president is beyond me and at some point the selfish benefits to them will hopefully backfire.
President Trump removes a racist video shared on his Truth Social account depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes following bipartisan outrage. https://cnn.it/4khadWs
February 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
How and why the cowardly Republicans haven't removed this disgrace of a man as president is beyond me and at some point the selfish benefits to them will hopefully backfire.
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The two-child benefit limit is being scrapped. That's 450,000 children lifted out of poverty by 2029.
In Hodge Hill and Solihull North - where nearly half of kids are growing up in poverty - this matters.
Life happens - job losses, bereavements - our safety net needs to be there.
In Hodge Hill and Solihull North - where nearly half of kids are growing up in poverty - this matters.
Life happens - job losses, bereavements - our safety net needs to be there.
February 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The two-child benefit limit is being scrapped. That's 450,000 children lifted out of poverty by 2029.
In Hodge Hill and Solihull North - where nearly half of kids are growing up in poverty - this matters.
Life happens - job losses, bereavements - our safety net needs to be there.
In Hodge Hill and Solihull North - where nearly half of kids are growing up in poverty - this matters.
Life happens - job losses, bereavements - our safety net needs to be there.
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Russell Crowe! Playing a charming Nazi! We're watching the confused, subtext-is-for-coward show-AND-tell fest that is Nuremberg.
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War Movie Theatre: Nuremberg - with Henry Dyer
Russell Crowe makes another pitch for an Oscar as he plays Herman Goering, on trial for his life. But is he let down by a film that is determined to both show and tell? Does he have the silliest la...
pod.fo
February 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Russell Crowe! Playing a charming Nazi! We're watching the confused, subtext-is-for-coward show-AND-tell fest that is Nuremberg.
champ.ly/1li6Z85W
champ.ly/1li6Z85W
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Kemi Badenoch's mouse scurrying past live on TV
You tell me.
February 5, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Kemi Badenoch's mouse scurrying past live on TV
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Speaking as someone whose area got £20m Pride in Place this autumn, I am over the moon for more areas to join the programme
It will be transformative
It will be transformative
Sir Keir Starmer pledges to 'reverse devastating decline' with £800m extra investment in 40 communities
In a speech on Thursday, the prime minister will attack what he calls the "scorched earth of Tory austerity", while recognising the threat from Reform UK, comparing it to a "contest between renewal an...
news.sky.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Speaking as someone whose area got £20m Pride in Place this autumn, I am over the moon for more areas to join the programme
It will be transformative
It will be transformative
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Gonna write this up at more length.
But if you believe Trump's goons will not follow the law, if you believe Trump will reverse November's election.
Your job is NOT to doom monger. It is to treat people-in-the-streets as the one remaining measure.
But if you believe Trump's goons will not follow the law, if you believe Trump will reverse November's election.
Your job is NOT to doom monger. It is to treat people-in-the-streets as the one remaining measure.
February 4, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Gonna write this up at more length.
But if you believe Trump's goons will not follow the law, if you believe Trump will reverse November's election.
Your job is NOT to doom monger. It is to treat people-in-the-streets as the one remaining measure.
But if you believe Trump's goons will not follow the law, if you believe Trump will reverse November's election.
Your job is NOT to doom monger. It is to treat people-in-the-streets as the one remaining measure.
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Keir Starmer is going ahead tomorrow with his speech on community cohesion & national renewal: this includes announcing extending the Pride in Place programme to 40 more places. Sky News reports some of the themes of his speech, released to the media
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
Sir Keir Starmer pledges to 'reverse devastating decline' with £800m extra investment in 40 communities
In a speech on Thursday, the prime minister will attack what he calls the "scorched earth of Tory austerity", while recognising the threat from Reform UK, comparing it to a "contest between renewal an...
news.sky.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Keir Starmer is going ahead tomorrow with his speech on community cohesion & national renewal: this includes announcing extending the Pride in Place programme to 40 more places. Sky News reports some of the themes of his speech, released to the media
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...
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Sometimes there aren’t enough words in the dictionary…
This is exactly why I chose to stand for the Senedd in Afan Ogwr Rhondda, despite polling. I don’t care about polls.
I care about eradicating poverty.
This is exactly why I chose to stand for the Senedd in Afan Ogwr Rhondda, despite polling. I don’t care about polls.
I care about eradicating poverty.
Let's put this another way: 5p off your pint but thousands of children go hungry.
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Sometimes there aren’t enough words in the dictionary…
This is exactly why I chose to stand for the Senedd in Afan Ogwr Rhondda, despite polling. I don’t care about polls.
I care about eradicating poverty.
This is exactly why I chose to stand for the Senedd in Afan Ogwr Rhondda, despite polling. I don’t care about polls.
I care about eradicating poverty.
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Those saying Mandelson is the “greatest scandal ever” presumably refer to what happened under the last Labour govt in 09/10. For it to a scandal about this one, they must show No10 knew more about Epstein links than was in public domain when so many of them hailed his appointment as a “masterstroke”
February 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Those saying Mandelson is the “greatest scandal ever” presumably refer to what happened under the last Labour govt in 09/10. For it to a scandal about this one, they must show No10 knew more about Epstein links than was in public domain when so many of them hailed his appointment as a “masterstroke”
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No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again.
And nothing above is hyperbole.
God, but you are not a leader for this time.
And nothing above is hyperbole.
God, but you are not a leader for this time.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 11:00 PM
No. Commonsense reform is to burn ICE to the waterline and scatter the rubble so that all of us who value a constitutional republic with a Bill of Rights can prevent such a monstrosity from ever being constructed again.
And nothing above is hyperbole.
God, but you are not a leader for this time.
And nothing above is hyperbole.
God, but you are not a leader for this time.
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I know we’ve gotten used to it, but this type of behavior is disgusting and people should speak up about it
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
February 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I know we’ve gotten used to it, but this type of behavior is disgusting and people should speak up about it
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KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
February 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
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The American election experience could benefit a lot from learning how we count votes in Britain.
In a provincial sports centre on a Thursday night, all by hand, no running tallies, and most people are home by 5am.
In a provincial sports centre on a Thursday night, all by hand, no running tallies, and most people are home by 5am.
So much of GOP conspiracy land is simply not understanding how counting works. No one is ever “ahead” or “behind” until the counting is over.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
February 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The American election experience could benefit a lot from learning how we count votes in Britain.
In a provincial sports centre on a Thursday night, all by hand, no running tallies, and most people are home by 5am.
In a provincial sports centre on a Thursday night, all by hand, no running tallies, and most people are home by 5am.
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3 million disgusting nudified images were produced by Grok in just 11 days.
Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI.
My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.
Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI.
My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
3 million disgusting nudified images were produced by Grok in just 11 days.
Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI.
My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.
Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI.
My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.