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Matt Ray Brown
@mattraybrown.bsky.social
Actor, based in Cambridge UK.
https://app.spotlight.com/1259-0167-4932
French & German speaker, lover of art, music, and rowing - and probably read more crime literature than is healthy 🎭🔎
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The problem of PFI explained in 60 seconds 👇
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The NHS is struggling under the weight of long-term PFI debts

Yet this government are considering bringing in more private finance at the Autumn budget ⁉️

Patients must come before profit. Add your name to the petition 👇

vist.ly/4epjz
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Today we mark Palestinian Independence Day.

Now more than ever, we call for an end to occupation, justice, and a real path to lasting peace.

#PalestinianIndependenceDay
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water
Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%
An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.
www.independent.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
bylinetimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I've been Labour my whole adult life, but I can't disagree with this.

Reform are indistinguishable from the National Front in 1995. And Labour are indistinguishable from Tories in 1995.

That's not a progressive option. That's the other thing. It's complicity when we need radicalism. It's failure.
"Polanski is adamant that Labour no longer deserves to be thought of as progressive.

"The Labour Party is so dead and gone in terms of being a progressive force. You don’t need to be in the Labour Party: @greenparty.org.uk time is now.”

www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
Labour vs the left
While Keir Starmer focuses on the threat of Reform and the populist right, is his real problem a resurgent progressive politics?
www.newstatesman.com
September 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Released 30 years ago, Se7en changed the rules of the game—and David Fincher’s career.

Read our deep dive: cinephiliabeyond.org/se7en-rain-d...
‘Se7en’ at 30: A Rain-Drenched, Somber, Gut-Wrenching Thriller that Restored David Fincher’s Faith in Filmmaking • Cinephilia & Beyond
Se7en poster art by Krzysztof Domaradzki By Sven Mikulec “The movie is a horror movie. The movie is about utter and total loss of control.” —David Fincher on Se7en Slightly more than 22 years ago, Dav...
cinephiliabeyond.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#unlicensedmovie will open this year's London Independent Film Festival on 3rd October 🤩🎞🥊
Bring it on! #Film #supportindiefilm #acting #drama
🎟 www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101956
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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American independent cinema owes much to Sundance king Robert Redford | Adrian Horton
American independent cinema owes much to Sundance king Robert Redford | Adrian Horton
With his Sundance film festival and institute, Robert Redford used his considerable power to bring generations of talented film-makers to a bigger audience
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Robert Redford tributes: Jane Fonda says the late actor 'stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.'
Jane Fonda and More Pay Tribute to Robert Redford: ‘He Stood for an America We Have to Keep Fighting for’
Robert Redford tributes: Jane Fonda says the late actor 'stood for an America we have to keep fighting for.'
bit.ly
September 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#RIP #RobertRedford photographed here in a publicity still with co-stars Paul Newman and Katharine Ross for “BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID” (1969) dir. George Roy Hill

🎬 20th Century-Fox
September 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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This Wednesday let's remind the Government that free speech is alive and well by protesting against Trump's state visit.

Trump, MAGA, Musk and their attacks on human rights, accountability, and the rule of law are not welcome here!

stoptrump.org.uk/protest/
September 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We're almost there 🌟🎞🥊
Tickets are available for our London screening at All Is Joy in Soho, London on Monday 15th September.

We’ll be doing a Q&A and having networking drinks afterwards.

We can’t post the link so DM for details!

See you there!!

#movies #featurefilm #boxingmovie #unlicensedmovie #filmscreenings🎬
September 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's here at last - the trailer to #unlicensedmovie by @markhampton.bsky.social
Screening this Friday, 12th September at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse 🌟🎞
#film #supportindiefilm
youtube.com/watch?v=us1G...
"Unlicensed" Trailer
YouTube video by Mark Hampton
youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Despite the media attention he receives, Farage does not represent the majority of people in Britain, nor the values that our country is built on - cooperation, democracy, fairness, human rights and the rule of law.

Don't let him persuade you his policies are popular.
@europeanmovement.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Brilliant 🤣 👏
Nice bit of local press coverage in the Cambridge Independent for Unlicensed!

A two-page spread is a fantastic and I’m pleased they included so many of the cast in the photos.

Also, spot the name error on the main photo!😂😂

#movies #featurefilm #presscoverage
#publicity #cambridge #independentfilm
August 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback
UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback
Exclusive: Labour ministers choosing to weaken green protections inherited from the bloc, analysis reveals * From clean air to pesticides: how UK has lagged behind EU on the environment The UK is using Brexit to weaken crucial environmental protections and is falling behind the EU despite Labour’s manifesto pledge not to dilute standards, analysis has found. Experts have said ministers are choosing to use Brexit to “actively go backwards” in some cases, though there are also areas where the UK has improved nature laws such as by banning sand eel fishing. The planning and infrastructure bill, which overrides the EU’s habitats directive and allows developers to pay into a general nature fund rather than keeping or creating new habitat nearby to make up for what is destroyed. The UK falling behind on water policy, with the EU implementing stronger legislation to clean rivers of chemicals and microplastics and making polluters pay to clean up. Air pollution, as the EU is legislating to clean up the air while the UK has removed EU air pollution laws from the statute book. Recycling and the circular economy, as the EU enforces strict new standards for designer goods that could leave the UK as a “dumping ground” for substandard, hard-to-recycle products. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Premiere of "Unlicensed" by Cambridge based actor/writer/director Mark Hampton - selling fast!
#film #supportindiefilm
August 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Lots of time and effort has gone into the Independent Water Commission, which reports tomorrow. Unfortunately, it's a largely wasted exercise, because the government insisted that renationalisation of the water companies was outside its terms of reference: ie, it was not allowed to consider it.🧵
July 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Last week I wrote about yet another of the disastrous outcomes of privatisation. If there's one thing almost everyone in England wants, it's renationalisation of water. But no, we can't have nice things. Just more shit. Literally in this case.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot
In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM