Matt Blake

@mattblakeUK

Have shorthand, will travel | ex Mirror/Independent reporter | now features (RIP) etc.

London, England
matt-blake.co.uk
Joined December 2009
54 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @mattblakeUK

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @mattblakeUK

  1. Retweeted
    Apr 4

    Fortnightly 79: Nan Shepherd's 'The Living Mountain' with | Thinking about 'Hamlet' | Funny stories via | Tayto crisps & | Bedtime stories with | Steinbeck with |

    2 retweets 5 likes
    Undo
  2. Retweeted
    Apr 2

    ‘Reading to children has magical powers.’ Separated from his daughter by the lockdown, was forced to figure out a new way to read to her, from afar. Read his touching essay in full here.

    3 replies 26 retweets 78 likes
    Undo
  3. Apr 2

    So, I did a bit on reading stories to The Kid while we're separated by coronavirus, and the magical powers of children's books. Also, Burglar Bill is a vital morality tale and the best picture book ever written, imho! | via

    1 retweet 4 likes
    Undo
  4. Retweeted
    Mar 31

    Next up I want Kate Winslet’s advice on surviving a shipwreck and erasing all your memories after a bad relationship

    3:43
    Kate Winslet starred in the film Contagion about a hypothetical virus outbreak and gives tips on how to keep safe during the pandemic. Get the latest news here:
    199 replies 700 retweets 4,429 likes
    Undo
  5. Retweeted
    10 Dec 2019

    🙏🏻It’s down to youth thanks ⁦⁩ 👀

    2 replies 32 retweets 47 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  6. 29 Nov 2019

    Pretty sure that's Southwark Bridge

    London Bridge closed after reports of gunfire via
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    3 Nov 2019

    A column about my brain and also an explanation of why I might not have replied to your emails recently, sorry

    263 replies 135 retweets 1,461 likes
    Undo
  8. 15 Oct 2019

    It's not just the mistress of madness and baby-turtle guidance system. The moon also destroyed my entire bedtime parenting strategy...

    4 likes
    Undo
  9. Retweeted
    12 Oct 2019

    In case you missed it: my cover-story for the on the false history behind "Global Britain" - and how, for Johnson, Rees-Mogg and co, "history becomes the mask worn by ideology, when it wants to be mistaken for experience".

    15 replies 135 retweets 302 likes
    Undo
  10. Retweeted
    28 Aug 2019

    Charles I: No one has as much contempt for parliamentary sovereignty as I. Boris Johnson: Hold my beer.

    15 retweets 24 likes
    Undo
  11. 27 Aug 2019

    Thanks to and for their input on this by the way - two very clever and interesting people whom we should all listen to, regularly.

    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  12. Retweeted
    27 Aug 2019

    In the new issue has an interesting piece about national identity, Windrush, and Brexit via magazine

    1 retweet 3 likes
    Undo
  13. 27 Aug 2019

    My bit on Brexit and the stories that create nations and post-imperial hair of the dog | via

    2 replies 9 retweets 21 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    24 Aug 2019

    I wrote about how crowdfunding evolved from a "needs" to a "wants" -based model over the last decade, and how you can now crowdfund for everything and anything 👛🤲

    5 replies 29 retweets 153 likes
    Undo
  15. 1 Aug 2019

    Love this, by ... maybe they just hadn't had time to sanitise them

    2 replies 5 likes
    Undo
  16. 2 Jun 2019

    This, by Jon Day, is beautiful

    1 like
    Undo
  17. 22 May 2019

    Wrote this about how you market legal products to illegal markets, and Britain's weird, and very hazy, relationship with weed

    2 likes
    Undo
  18. 20 Mar 2019

    First Theresa May, and now this! Tough week for cabinets, this. But great to see MailOnline still fearlessly tackling the Big Stories

    1 like
    Undo
  19. 6 Mar 2019

    Sex workers all over Britain - from prostitutes to porn stars, escorts to strippers - are going on strike on Friday (to march on London). I spoke to one about it.

    2 likes
    Undo
  20. 5 Mar 2019

    FINALLY, ON BEING REMEMBERED: I want people to have seen the band and felt that something’s happened in their life – that it transported them away from politics and bullshit. Id like to think we’ve represented ourselves.

    3 retweets 5 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo

@mattblakeUK hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·