Matthew Whitfield

@matthewwhitfield

buildings, politics, miscellaneous Everybody's gay, Kimmy. It's the 90s.

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Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jul 15

Whether it’s retirement carriage clocks or defending the genocides of strategic allies, this guy never experienced a convention he didn’t gleefully subscribe to

Starmer gifted carriage clock in his final days as PM

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jul 14

Useful stats from Counter Terrorism Policing. 100% of arrests for Islamist or Far Right causes. But that rounding error that doesn’t even make a single percentage point, that’s definitely what they’ll pursue. No recorded cases of right wing people murdering other right-wingers, eh?

CTP arrests, on average, around 250 people every year on suspicion of terrorist offences. The
largest single focus of our investigations is Islamist extremist terrorism, in many cases inspired, and
in some enabled, by groups such as Islamic State (Da-esh) or Al Qaeda.
Of the 254 people in prison for terrorism and terrorism-connected offences, around 60% were
convicted as Islamist terrorists. Nearly a third (30%) are white-supremacists, neo-Nazis – Extreme
Right Wing Terrorists (ERWT). Of those remaining, some have less clear ideologies, often related
Statistics correct as of 12/2/2025
Counter Terrorism Policing: Our mission
conspiracy theories. This split reflects the reality of our investigations with MI5, which is roughly
75% Islamist terrorism, 25% ERWT, with a small number of left wing and single-issue ideologies.

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jul 14

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jul 9

No idea who the casting director was for this but I do know they are the most belligerent TERF-addled weirdo ever

A poster for Noel Coward‘s Present Laughter starring Trace-Ann Oberman and James Dreyfus

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jul 6

in all seriousness, podcasts are just about anything now, just Tombola the whole thing with hosts and topic and you’ve no need for a basic premise or for it to make sense

‘Outsiding’ podcast. Caitlin Moran talks to a bloke from gardeners world about what it’s like to be outside.

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jul 1

me when my boyfriend asks me if I've seen the forecast for another heatwave next week

Lucille Bluth saying "I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it"

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jul 1

we also need basic military training for civilians along the lines of WENT THE DAY WELL? (1942) so we can all learn to take on Putin‘s hoardes in our own homes, like the late Thora Hird did

A black-and-white still of Thora Hird pointing a gun out of an open sash window

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 24

the FT and Bluesky (and definitely the Parliamentary Labour Party) exist on different plains of existence

Financial Times Headline: James Purnell, set to be Andy Burham's Chief of Staff, reassures Labout MPs about presumptive PM's management of the econony

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 23

update: artfully styling out the heat in numerous positions

A black cat in a very bendy pose lying on a pale orange sheet

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 22

tfw there’s nothing else for it

Pudding, a black cat, sprawled on a teak desk next to a big white fan that looks a little like the Jodrell Bank space telescope

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 22

also undone by the glasses he’s holding onto there, one of many freebies he scammed off the taxpayer despite being easily in the top 1% of earners

Financial Times headline : How Keir Starmer was undone by caution and no clear plan

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 21

this utter menace went missing for an entire 24hrs and damn near shredded my soul. He walked back in without a care in the world, I don’t even think he’d been trapped somewhere. He was just ‘out’

Pudding, a beautiful black cat sitting inside cardboard box that he’s partly eaten one side of

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 17

In ridding the world of him, let’s look for inspo from the plot of TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1997) in which James Bond attempts to prevent Elliot Carver, a megalomaniacal media mogul, from manipulating world events to bring about World War III. It’s nothing too complex - some brute violence and a snog

Bond and Wai Lin board Carver's stealth ship to prevent him from firing the missile at Beijing. Wai Lin is captured, forcing Bond to devise a second plan. Bond captures Gupta to use as his own hostage, but Carver kills Gupta, claiming he has "outlived his contract". Bond detonates a grenade in the hull, damaging the ship, thus rendering it visible to radar and vulnerable to a subsequent Royal Navy attack. While Wai Lin disables the engines, she is recaptured by Stamper. Bond kills Carver with his own drilling machine and attempts to destroy the warhead with detonators, but Stamper attacks him, sending a chained Wai Lin into the water. Bond traps Stamper in the missile firing mechanism and saves Wai Lin as the missile explodes, destroying the ship and killing Stamper. Bond and Wai Lin kiss amidst the wreckage as HMS Bedford searches for them.

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 16

things going great in Surrey, Stoke, Devon. I imagine generally well all around the country. Super.

The LGBT section of the BBC News website with stories about cancelled Prides and moral panics around LGBT events in council libraries

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 12

it’s worse than that, he’s quoting Boris Johnson’s own metaphor about his leadership ambitions from 2013. Tragic.

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 12

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 11

we need a ‘Jeremy Cromblyns!!!’ version of Steve Reed. It’s blunt, but how about ‘Steve Fucking Reed’

The Grade II listed Coventry Central Baths (1962-66), once described as ‘one of the finest swimming pools in the world’, is to be demolished by Coventry City Council after Steve Reed MP – Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government – formally approved the bulldozing of the building

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· Jun 2

Wilfred Frost is a great example of Dawn Foster's “if I’ve heard of yer da, I don’t need to hear from you” rule. A nepo baby of media aristocracy and literal bloodline aristocracy, Oxbridge PPE, did a *weekend course* in journalism to start his career

Early life and education
Frost is the son of Sir David Frost, an interviewer and television host, and Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, a daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk. Frost attended Eton College and the University of Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.[1]

Career
After graduating, Frost worked for Newton Investment Management in London for 5 years.[1] In 2011, after attending a weekend-long media-training programme in London, he left his job to pursue a career in broadcasting

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 23

feel free to come for me in 2030 when the Russian Federation flag is fluttering over Tallinn but for now I tend to think that NATO wargames in Charing Cross tube are happening because the military think it makes them look based, and nudges their experience closer to a film they once watched

military men trying to look cool whilst on laptops on the platform of the disused Charing Cross Jubliee line station

an ops room underground bathed in red light

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 22

love how there’s an elite modernist park in London that nobody ever talks about

Thames Barrier Park, showing topiary ‘waves’ of a sunken dock garden. The Thames Barrier itself is visible in the distance

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 21

found this buried somewhere on my phone while looking for something else, Bluesky should find a way to do random archival Twitter posts, happier days

A picture of Diane Abbott and Shami Chakraborty in front of the red brick Bedford railway station. Caption: The 19th century red brick industrial vernacular revival of the 1970s, overlooked by brutalist dads and Pomo kids alike, getting valuable exposure here - book now for Diane and Shami’s tour of the British Rail southern region highlights

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 21

me when AI tries to do historical research or write a novel: well this fucking sucks, what the fuck me when AI ends mathematics: hahahah fuck yeah! yes!

One of the UK's leading mathematicians talking about a new proof from an OpenAI model. Maths really is being transformed - the key is that unlike most AI output, proofs can be strictly verified as true. Really hard to say what happens next

It's not necessarily the end of mathematics, but it's hard to see how the all the social structures that support the subject will be able to avoid major disruption over the next few years.

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 19

I am not ready for what lies ahead. Go on without me, save yourself

Highs of 28 degrees in the 10 day weather forecast

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 17

this terrazzo, used once in North Greenwich tube in 1999, never used again anywhere because it was too powerful

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 16

can’t say off the top of my head what this ‘discrimination’ looks like to them (and the BBC aren’t teasing any more from their vox pops from the march) and I genuinely do want to know more, what is structuring their thought?

Reporting from the scene, BBC correspondent Tom Symonds said people there had a wide range of views - including those who want to see the end of the current government, and others who feel that white people, in particular white working class people, are being discriminated against in the UK today.

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 16

if it stuck to the facts, maybe there was a piece here about mediocrities doing badly, albeit without significant depth or analysis. But it trots out lies, like the Danish social democrats ‘cutting into’ the far right vote with far right policies. Nope! They did not!

Scan across Europe and there are leaders who appear to have bucked the trend, Zuleeg said. After seven years in power, Mette Frederiksen is still in with a shout of staying on as the prime minister of Denmark after an election in which her Social Democrats party was left bloodied but not bowed. Coalition talks are continuing. Frederiksen had cut into the votes of the far right by taking a tough stance on immigration and had navigated the clash with Donald Trump over his claims to Greenland, a Danish territory. “She’s a steady hand,” said Emil Sondaj Hansen from the Europa thinktank in Copenhagen.

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 15

all tasteful contemporary gardens

Jenna Maroney from 30 Rock saying ‘what if the theme was alliums?’

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 15

at the new QEII garden, Regents Park

pathways, grasses and water, with a lot of purple alliums

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 15

At the bottom of my street and on my running route for a few years, just completely camp

Dame Judi Dench Walk, along the river in York

Matthew Whitfield@matthewwhitfield· May 15

I’m having a nice chat with @grindrod.bsky.social later this month about his amazing new book on LGBTQ+ lives in the suburbs. You can buy tickets for it in London or online secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...