Matthew McGregor

Interesting to see how this worked out in the recent Australian federal elections for the Tories down under (it was ugly). www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?

”I didn’t do anything because of hate. I didn’t care. It’s just I wanted the clicks.”

A must-read piece by @londoncentric.media on why we're so absolutely cooked.

www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

*several people are typing*

This is just embarrassing.

I need to hear the audio asap

It’s all a bit *many people are typing* for a Sunday lunchtime

Water firms could be let off pollution fines as part of government overhaul Exclusive: Campaigners claim changes will let companies ‘off the hook’, as government prepares to unveil new white paper for water industry

Are water companies too shit to fail?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Colonel Matthieu is looking good for his age

If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.

Ignore the sceptics: with this new vaccine, chickenpox could become a thing of the past | Wes Streeting Thousands develop serious complications from the varicella virus. Today the NHS rolls out a new jab, alongside measles, mumps and rubella, says health secretary Wes Streeting

We had one kid vaccinated for chickenpox (when we lived in the US) and one kid who wasn’t (after we moved to the UK) and the different parenting experience when each had chickenpox was *extremely* stark. This is a good decision. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Have you done the cable car to Roosevelt island

Easter stuff on sale before Christmas is absurd, but this is taking things too far. 11 months to go before bonfire night!!!!

My favourite books this year There’s more to life than books you know, but not much more. I’ve tended to shy away from doing book lists in case I look like Chris Finch from 'The Office' boasting, "I read a book a week, me".

The best books I read this year. I’m now on the hunt for (history, ideally) recommendations for 2026. Any pointers? www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-fav...

His tax cut for billionaires and millionaires would have cost middle class families an average of $2000 moms and dads with two kids. I’m glad he’s changed his tune.

“Tax. The. Rich.” The message from our new polling out today on the front page of the Daily Mirror.

Avoiding austerity & helping people with the cost of living isn’t free. Voters are ready for some tax rises - but only if the wealthy pay their fair share.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket

This is good, actually? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

Not to be a grinch but it feels like @jim.londoncentric.media winter wonderland woes come earlier and earlier each year. We should keep winter wonderland stories special by saving them for 1 December imho.

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🙌 Zohran Mamdani's victory in the NYC mayoral election
🇺🇸 what else was missed in coverage of US politics
👀 speculation around the upcoming Budget

Instead of engaging in a peaceful transfer of power, Trump rallied supporters on Inauguration Day, told them to “fight like hell” and then sat watching on TV saying and doing nothing while those supporters rioted their way into Congress. Some BBC goof up doesn’t change that.

'Gordon Brown, Labour MPs, and voters agree: Act on child poverty now' - LabourList Gordon Brown, Labour MPs and the public agree - tax gambling companies and end child poverty now.

You can’t cut child poverty without scrapping the two child benefit limit, and you can’t be a Labour government if you preside over rising child poverty. Me for @labourlist.bsky.social on the route to getting done what Labour must get done. labourlist.org/2025/11/gord...

Just been to see the greatest football painting of all time. An absolute beauty.

Want to feel old? The new mayor of New York wasn’t even alive when England lost the semi final to West Germany in 1990.

Higher taxes on the wealthy, especially via closing loopholes, is very popular in itself. Using the money to fund public services even more so. Labour made an election promise to ensure “those with the broadest shoulders” paid their fair share and won a mandate to do so.

My “I’m not involved in any smear campaigns” tshirt is prompting some questions already answered by my tshirt.

Irish politics is having an absolutely sensational few days.

Norwich will win the champions league if I can save up enough money to buy the club, I announce to world.

Starmer faces cabinet revolt over Budget tax rises driving wealthy away ‘The trouble is we have crossed a line in trying to encourage aspiration. The non-dom change and the VAT on school fees have sent the opposite message,’ minister tells The Independent

Cabinet ministers giving anonymous quotes attacking sensationally popular commitments made in a manifesto they got elected on is quite the move. Bravo! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

Even just a couple years ago, Jenrick would have already been sacked for this and would be a pariah from across the political spectrum, including most of the media. The change we’ve seen over the last ten years is incredibly stark. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...