MJ
@mathewheath.bsky.social
You knew me as @here_comes_B on that other place.
It's just not happening in fancy neighborhoods and it is not happening in diverse, mixed areas. National pride? From a bunch of guys who know the first line of Land of Hope and Glory only and imagine King Charles can boot the govt out? Clowns.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
It's just not happening in fancy neighborhoods and it is not happening in diverse, mixed areas. National pride? From a bunch of guys who know the first line of Land of Hope and Glory only and imagine King Charles can boot the govt out? Clowns.
The number one question for Reform voters needs to be "how do you hope to pay for more expensive and infinitely less available healthcare?" Because the NHS can't exist under these conditions. My guess is an older, less wealthy electorate also much more dependent on free healthcare.
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform
As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The number one question for Reform voters needs to be "how do you hope to pay for more expensive and infinitely less available healthcare?" Because the NHS can't exist under these conditions. My guess is an older, less wealthy electorate also much more dependent on free healthcare.
The opening track on the new Besnard Lakes album sounds like the East 17 Christmas song. And I am here for that. (Not as much as that Taylor Swift song sounds like Pixies "Where is my mind?".)
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The opening track on the new Besnard Lakes album sounds like the East 17 Christmas song. And I am here for that. (Not as much as that Taylor Swift song sounds like Pixies "Where is my mind?".)
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"I’m convinced that it’s the cost of living, not immigration, that voters care about. The Green party is the only party honest enough not to try to conflate the two for political convenience."
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Zack Polanski: ‘Hope has just won in New York – it can win here too’ | The Observer
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November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"I’m convinced that it’s the cost of living, not immigration, that voters care about. The Green party is the only party honest enough not to try to conflate the two for political convenience."
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
– @zackpolanski.bsky.social
It's like literally any chance they get, they'll put Farage on. It's dreadful. I don't get it at all as Tim Davie is a total Tory but few have done as much as the BBC in platforming Farage/UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform
*Again* the top story on BBC 6 music is about immigration
How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!?
The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre
How is Shabana Mahmood wanting to introduce a ‘Danish style’ system for refugees the top story this morning?!?
The obsession of 6 Music news on immigration and asylum is frankly bizarre
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's like literally any chance they get, they'll put Farage on. It's dreadful. I don't get it at all as Tim Davie is a total Tory but few have done as much as the BBC in platforming Farage/UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform
What I find pretty awful is you can sense that his first thought is something like "I will look weak next to this other old person who has a medical emergency, so I had better stand up straight and ignore it."
Which is pretty despicable.
Which is pretty despicable.
The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.
25/47
25/47
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
What I find pretty awful is you can sense that his first thought is something like "I will look weak next to this other old person who has a medical emergency, so I had better stand up straight and ignore it."
Which is pretty despicable.
Which is pretty despicable.
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I had the first Imperial Teen album. Joyous music. Love this guy.
Enjoyed reading the @steviechick.bsky.social interview with Roddy Bottum. Cards on the table, I have never seen Faith No More perform live… But I have seen Sasquatch: The Opera. #ILikeHisLaterStuff www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I was the only out queer guy in rock’: Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum
The keyboard player on his heroin overdose, how Kurt Cobain wanted to be gay and why his memoir will ruin his Christian relatives’ Thanksgiving dinner
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I had the first Imperial Teen album. Joyous music. Love this guy.
That and the fact that there is a huge disparity of so much between international cities and smaller towns/countryside.
“London and New York, two of the west’s largest, richest, and most diverse cities are now run by Muslim men, both of them elected on the ticket of left wing, pro-LGBT, pro-multicultural parties…The victory is a reminder of the fundamental weakness of Trumpism, Faragism, and the politics of hate.”
Mamdani shows a different way is possible
The New York mayor’s resounding victory is a warning to Trump and his own party’s old guard
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
That and the fact that there is a huge disparity of so much between international cities and smaller towns/countryside.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Guess they are made for one another. What a hateful pair.
Katie Miller is threatening the citizenship of a critic | Arwa Mahdawi
Katie Miller is threatening the citizenship of a critic | Arwa Mahdawi
Threatening to deport your critics, even those with US citizenship, seems to have become Maga policy
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Guess they are made for one another. What a hateful pair.
Again, I don't care. I don't see what difference it makes. Also, excluding minorities or less well abled people potentially minimises the profits a Corp can make. And why would they do that? I don't think these people know how capitalism works
41% of Britons say adverts "have gone too far" when it comes to making sure different social groups are represented
Gone too far: 41%
Balance about right: 29%
Need to go further: 16%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Gone too far: 41%
Balance about right: 29%
Need to go further: 16%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Again, I don't care. I don't see what difference it makes. Also, excluding minorities or less well abled people potentially minimises the profits a Corp can make. And why would they do that? I don't think these people know how capitalism works
I really don't care. I don't need to see a white person drinking a pepsi to want to buy a Pepsi.
27% of white Britons say they don't feel well represented in advertising in terms of their race, with Reform MP Sarah Pochin causing a row on the subject
White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%
Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%
Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I really don't care. I don't need to see a white person drinking a pepsi to want to buy a Pepsi.
Wait till he meets Jenrick, Lam and Badenoch.
Reform councillor defects to Tories after party’s policies left him ‘uncomfortable’
Reform councillor defects to Tories after party’s policies left him ‘uncomfortable’
Dartford representative James Buchan says ‘devastating’ immigration plans had created a lot of fear and anxiety
A Reform UK councillor has defected to the Conservatives saying he became “uncomfortable” in Nigel Farage’s party.
James Buchan, who sits in the south-east London borough of Dartford, said he struggled with the idea of facing his relatives while a member of a party whose anti-immigration policies spread fear. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Wait till he meets Jenrick, Lam and Badenoch.
I only saw one. And it was on a dad. Sort of a goth superman.
I know it's anecdotal and incomplete data, but there were noticeably fewer superhero costumes out last night. Of the 30 or so kids that came to my door, there was only one (Batman).
On the same night, two little boys dressed as Kneecap!
On the same night, two little boys dressed as Kneecap!
November 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I only saw one. And it was on a dad. Sort of a goth superman.
Things we knew ten years ago but didn't hate foreigners enough to want to risk..
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Things we knew ten years ago but didn't hate foreigners enough to want to risk..
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Wouldn’t be the same record without Alkas beats!!!
Honored to have worked with @rogerodonnell.com on his fantastic new electronic release.
Check out the great compiled footage video via Mimi Supernova 🩶
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFW...
Check out the great compiled footage video via Mimi Supernova 🩶
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdFW...
Projections
YouTube video by RogerODonnellTV
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October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Wouldn’t be the same record without Alkas beats!!!
I did a work event in the Groucho once and I sent this to all the people who came. It's so cool.
I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out
October 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I did a work event in the Groucho once and I sent this to all the people who came. It's so cool.
Do you have your Lorelle tix yet?
Yes!! #musicsky
Get excited and set your clocks
Lorelle meets the Obsolete
May ‘26, Live. 🎶
Tickets on Dice
Get excited and set your clocks
Lorelle meets the Obsolete
May ‘26, Live. 🎶
Tickets on Dice
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Do you have your Lorelle tix yet?
The irony of an immigrant (Musk) in a nation built on immigratoon (USA) recommending remigration.
The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws.
Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities
"I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities
"I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The irony of an immigrant (Musk) in a nation built on immigratoon (USA) recommending remigration.
What gets my goat is halfwit politicians making racist comments who don't even understand how capitalism works. If adverts include "people who look like me", they will appeal and people will buy more stuff.
If Pochin wants to only see white folks, is she prepared for a slump in consumption?
If Pochin wants to only see white folks, is she prepared for a slump in consumption?
To the surprise of nobody, Grok is sharing an innumerate and exaggerated defence of Sarah Pochin's comments, which is being widely celebrated by those with as or more prejudiced views than those expressed by Pochin.
October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What gets my goat is halfwit politicians making racist comments who don't even understand how capitalism works. If adverts include "people who look like me", they will appeal and people will buy more stuff.
If Pochin wants to only see white folks, is she prepared for a slump in consumption?
If Pochin wants to only see white folks, is she prepared for a slump in consumption?
Farage is performer in everything. Like Trump is an entertainer.
We don't need these people in politics. We need people who can achieve things.
We don't need these people in politics. We need people who can achieve things.
"MPs are allowed to put their name into a ballot for extra questions at PMQs. The last time Nigel Farage's name was put into the 'shuffle' was in July."
In fairness, he is rarely around. ~AA
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
In fairness, he is rarely around. ~AA
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Farage's 'PMQs strike' mocked as he hasn't asked for extra questions in months
MPs are allowed to put their name into a ballot for extra questions at PMQs. The last time Nigel Farage's name was put into the 'shuffle' was in July
www.mirror.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Farage is performer in everything. Like Trump is an entertainer.
We don't need these people in politics. We need people who can achieve things.
We don't need these people in politics. We need people who can achieve things.
Govt and oppo parties should go down the hospitals and look at who is doing all the jobs there. Anti-immigrant or racist pronouncements should be followed by a caveat that the NHS would fall apart on Day One of any ethnonationalist purge.
It's easy to look at public statements purely through a prism of free speech. But words have consequences. Being *legally permitted* to say awful things, doesn't mean we must all go around saying them. The bare minimum should not be the most we can expect. ~AA
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Govt and oppo parties should go down the hospitals and look at who is doing all the jobs there. Anti-immigrant or racist pronouncements should be followed by a caveat that the NHS would fall apart on Day One of any ethnonationalist purge.
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Shoegaze legends Chapterhouse will perform their classic 1991 debut album ‘Whirlpool’ in full at Islington Assembly Hall in London on April 29, 2026 – exactly 35 years to the day since it was released...
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Shoegaze legends Chapterhouse will perform their classic 1991 debut album ‘Whirlpool’ in full at Islington Assembly Hall in London on April 29, 2026 – exactly 35 years to the day since it was released...
Yes?
Windrush commissioner: Black Britons asking if UK is ‘going backwards’
Windrush commissioner: Black Britons asking if UK is ‘going backwards’
Rev Clive Foster says rhetoric targeting legal migrants makes some wonder if history is repeating itself
Black Britons are asking if the UK is “going backwards”, the Windrush commissioner has warned in an interview marking his 100th day in office.
The Rev Clive Foster said Windrush scandal survivors were questioning whether “history is repeating itself” as UK politicians target legal migrants. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes?