Professor Peter Matthews
@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social
Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Reposted by Professor Peter Matthews
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
So true. But then MORE THINGS arrive to get done. And that's just rude.
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I stopped faffing about and Did The Thing and it turns out that this is What Gets Things Done.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So true. But then MORE THINGS arrive to get done. And that's just rude.
Turned to BBC 1 and wondered if I was going to get an interesting biopic about how Montagu Burton created a made to measure tailoring empire, but alas....
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Turned to BBC 1 and wondered if I was going to get an interesting biopic about how Montagu Burton created a made to measure tailoring empire, but alas....
Tonight's dinner was another cracker from Meera Sodha. Delicious and simple. I prepped the veg and dressing yesterday so it took 20 minutes to cook:
www.theguardian.com/food/article...
www.theguardian.com/food/article...
Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for white cabbage, peanut butter and gochujang noodles | The new vegan
You don’t need to be a straight A student to cook these easy instant noodles
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Tonight's dinner was another cracker from Meera Sodha. Delicious and simple. I prepped the veg and dressing yesterday so it took 20 minutes to cook:
www.theguardian.com/food/article...
www.theguardian.com/food/article...
Ok, so they've got Chris Patten on PM and it's brilliant 😆
I cannot be f**ked engaging with BBC News today. They played a clip of a politician who owes his success to disproportionate appearances on Question Time saying the BBC were institutionally biased. I could hear the screams of pain as irony died a slow and horrible death...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ok, so they've got Chris Patten on PM and it's brilliant 😆
I cannot be f**ked engaging with BBC News today. They played a clip of a politician who owes his success to disproportionate appearances on Question Time saying the BBC were institutionally biased. I could hear the screams of pain as irony died a slow and horrible death...
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I cannot be f**ked engaging with BBC News today. They played a clip of a politician who owes his success to disproportionate appearances on Question Time saying the BBC were institutionally biased. I could hear the screams of pain as irony died a slow and horrible death...
This is the sort of WhatsApp message my mum sends me these days
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is the sort of WhatsApp message my mum sends me these days
I fancied listening to something about real existing socialism on my walk into town just now, so I searched BBC Sounds for "GDR". They're getting their archives on there now, so I found the gem from February 1989 - Profile asking whether Honecker had lost his touch!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Profile - Erich Honecker - BBC Sounds
A profile of the East German politician who was the last leader of the GDR
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I fancied listening to something about real existing socialism on my walk into town just now, so I searched BBC Sounds for "GDR". They're getting their archives on there now, so I found the gem from February 1989 - Profile asking whether Honecker had lost his touch!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Reposted by Professor Peter Matthews
same people who deny the validity of trans identities insist on calling boats “she”
this is known as “assigned female at berth”
this is known as “assigned female at berth”
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
same people who deny the validity of trans identities insist on calling boats “she”
this is known as “assigned female at berth”
this is known as “assigned female at berth”
54% is technically a majority, I suppose 🙄🤦🏻♂️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
54% is technically a majority, I suppose 🙄🤦🏻♂️
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Can we organise an international conference of wine glass manufacturers and dishwasher manufacturers so that they can coordinate to make their respective products compatible with one another?
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Can we organise an international conference of wine glass manufacturers and dishwasher manufacturers so that they can coordinate to make their respective products compatible with one another?
Reposted by Professor Peter Matthews
This could work for lower league Scottish football.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This could work for lower league Scottish football.
Notes passing bandwagon.
Don't mind if I do...
Don't mind if I do...
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Notes passing bandwagon.
Don't mind if I do...
Don't mind if I do...
Reposted by Professor Peter Matthews
bluesky branding refresh unveiled
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
bluesky branding refresh unveiled
I'd never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald but this year it's ALL over my socials 🤷🏻♂️
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I'd never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald but this year it's ALL over my socials 🤷🏻♂️
Watching Star Wars and heavily empathising with C3PO when he said "we're just made to suffer"
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Watching Star Wars and heavily empathising with C3PO when he said "we're just made to suffer"
Well, that was quite exciting
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Well, that was quite exciting
I'm in the room while The Witcher is being watched and it is truly terrible
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I'm in the room while The Witcher is being watched and it is truly terrible
Watching The Traitors on Gogglebox is almost as good as watching it!
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Watching The Traitors on Gogglebox is almost as good as watching it!
Today at work I managed to make one of my problems someone else's problem. And that was great.
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today at work I managed to make one of my problems someone else's problem. And that was great.
Celebrity Traitors was SO good. A proper tonic for the soul
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Celebrity Traitors was SO good. A proper tonic for the soul
Guessing the weather was bad for the ceremonial pouches #TheTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Guessing the weather was bad for the ceremonial pouches #TheTraitors
I'm behind! But... LISTEN TO JOE!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I'm behind! But... LISTEN TO JOE!!!!