Sharp and insightful analysis coupled with vivid firsthand reporting on America’s toxic politics, which shows how forces that were once seen as marginal and even deranged have entered the mainstream.

My substack piece on Alex Garland, civil wars and cold civil wars, Mike Wendling's Day of Reckoning, and the MAGA movement's yearning for violence: open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr/p…

Tories & Labour giving the young some help - not.

All this to please the rightwing nationalists who are grinding the UK into the dust, and because our politicians are too cowardly to admit to what this ghastly Brexit farce has taken away.

Disgraceful and thoroughly depressing

My piece on Israel and Iran’s game of chicken was published on Tuesday, but you don’t need to be a prophet to guess what these maniacs will do, aided and abetted by spectacularly useless US ‘leadership.’

#IsraelAttackIran

open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr/p…

Seriously? ‘Don’t attack Iran and we’ll give you Rafah?’ Israel running rings round Biden. The West now as complicit in the coming horrors as they were in those we’ve already seen.

And when Israel has destroyed Rafah, it will attack Iran, and will be allowed to do that too.

Another reminder to read my piece about the potentially catastrophic consequences of Israel and Iran’s deadly game of chicken: open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr/p…

#IranAttackIsrael #IranIsraelConflict #WorldWarIII

‘Nowadays everybody’s having these dreams.’ My substack piece on Israel and Iran’s game of chicken, and a world hurtling towards calamity: open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr/p…

Netanyahu running rings round a hapless and gutless US leadership, whose only message is ‘we don’t want escalation, but go ahead and escalate anyway’, and (not said) ‘we’ll support you if you do.’

Science minister used £34k public money to defend her defamation of an academic
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

My piece on them destruction of Gaza, with thoughts on military necessity and atrocity propaganda: open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr/p…

Because ‘middle-class lefties’ can all afford private treatment, and the working classes all want privatisation. Such cheap strawman pseudo-class politics fakery presented, as usual as ‘boldness.’ I despair.

I’ve told Big Issue what Wes Streeting should be doing, instead of making inflammatory, divisive comments🚨

💙RT if you agree!💙

“he should commit to a significant pay rise for NHS staff, he should commit investment to fix crumbling buildings, and he should commit to ending

Lovely exchange. So great to see this kind of humanity and empathy in a society where such qualities are too often absent.

Scrapings of the scraped barrel. This is what happens when a member of a party crashing in the polls and suffering from a bad case of PIND (post-imperial nostalgia disorder), takes acid, ketamine, and falls off the white cliffs of Dover staring at their IPhone.

So much attention to detail goes into every one of Steve’s creations. The ludicrous cast of characters. Westminster’s deluded ‘Global Britain’ political elite. And the reality: the UK’s international reputation as the world watches post #Brexit chaos.

That the Times even carries such a headline today shows the absolute viciousness of Rishi Sunak’s government.

They seriously set out to criminalise homelessness.

Only pulled back because a few of their own became mutinous.

Stone cold venality.

The rules:

Israel is allowed to kill

- 32,000 + Palestinians

- any Palestinian entering a 'kill zone', regardless of who they are

- journalists, health workers, women, children,

-British aid workers... as long as it says sorry and investigates why it killed them