Matt Cross

"...And the music they constantly play;
It says nothing to me about my life..."

EU Touring: Impact of Brexit Worsening, Says UK Music Report 02.12.2025: The impact of Brexit on EU touring for UK creators is getting worse, a new survey featured in UK Music’s This Is Music report has revealed. Our This Is Music report into the economic…

UK Music has surveyed music creators on their experiences of touring the EU following Brexit. And the picture is still bad and is getting worse.🚨

Of those affected by Brexit, 95% experienced a decrease in earnings, up 8% from 87% in 2023.

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You'd think intelligent journalists by now (after all the debunking of the anti-renewables arguments) might start moving the debate on. They're so beholden to ultra conservative view points they fail to see the reality.

In the Hot Seat | Santa vs Father Christmas – where did they originate from? 🎅

UEA’s Christmas expert, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Thomas Ruys Smith, unwraps the surprising history behind Santa🎄

#ChristmasHistory #SantaClaus #FatherChristmas #UEAResearch

A lot of journos got addicted to the years of chaos. It made for clicks and content and that's deeply fucking problematic if we want this country to actually work.

Yes - hold the government to account and do it robustly. But partisan news coverage has leaked into mainstream from the GB news sewer.

All the coverage of Reeves ‘lying’ debagged in a single sentence.

Yes, that would be harsh 😂😂 They’ll be there again, especially after such a great performance yesterday

For the first time this season I went to the match on my own as neither my daughters nor my wife could make the match with me. So turns out I'm the Lucky Charm 🤣💚💛

Just watched the highlights now I'm back home from the match. That was a very close decision. Looked just onside to me, so unlucky for Josh. If we keep playing like today though, he'll be back scoring soon #OTBC

YouTube video by Norwich City Football Club Philippe Clement's Yellows 🙌

Victory.

#NCFC

Finally. The sort of half that #NCFC fans have been promised at Carrow Road by two different head coaches and a wide range of staff and players. They were positive, energetic, technically good and, most importantly, on the same page.

Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.

Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax

I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.

@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

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Certainly chimes with what I hear, particularly if you live outside London, opportunities are very thin on the ground for graduates.

The Public Services Performance Tracker is regularly described as ‘sobering’ but this is definitely the first time we’ve had ‘almost lyrical’

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That famous left-wing bias again

List of funny Scottish gritter names for winter

Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile

I might start a meaningless, empty relationship following a big Premier League side or some European behemoth just so that I don't have to really care about football anymore 😞

This research is important because it corroborates what we already knew - that when comparing the UK to peer economies, it has had a big slowdown since 2016. It does so with firm-level data and finds more EU-connected firms have sizeable shortfalls in productivity and investment compared to less.

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Why would they though as they’re not really held accountable for it. Their media buddies would wade in and support them if they are questioned so they’ve no real need to ‘come clean’.

Be Stiif: The Stiff Records Story is available now. Get your copy here!

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#book #punk #stiffrecords #elviscostello #devo #lenelovich #iandury #madness #thedamned #thepogues

Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit

Yup. Absolutely bizarre political positioning. Can't see Starmer using it in a similar way to Carney in Canada though. But if progressives are canny (and worked together) they could make a huge impact exploiting this. I mean "traitors" isn't exactly a good look (except the TV programme 😉)

A former Plaid Cymru Chief Executive is now being paid £190k a year as the BBC's Nations Director. This is living proof that the BBC is infected with left-wing bias right to the top-

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.

So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.