Matt Rudd
@mattrudd.bsky.social
Contributing editor and columnist at the Sunday Times. Occasional author, most recently, of Man Down. Patron of the Counselling Centre, a charity in the South East doing brilliant work in the mental health trenches (message me if you want more info)
“They’re not dogs” Now in podcast format (love The Story podcast and very pleased our terrible treatment of pets gets an airing on it)… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
How extreme breeding is making our pets sick - The Saturday Story
Podcast Episode · The Story · 1 August · 18min
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‘They’re not dogs’: how extreme breeding is making our pets sick www.thetimes.com/article/1385...
‘They’re not dogs’: how extreme breeding is making our pets sick
Matt Rudd meets the vets attempting to repair the damage done by our mania for cute — but ever more unhealthy — dog breeds
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Life with locked-in syndrome: ‘Despite everything, you are alive’ www.thetimes.com/article/51fc...
Life with locked-in syndrome: ‘Despite everything, you are alive’
Matt Rudd has remarkable conversations with three Britons who, after life-changing accidents, have fully active minds but cannot move or speak, and can communicate only via the blink of an eye
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For one day, I got to imagine what Ant & Dec & a Third Wheel would be like… the conversation was supposed to be about their new podcast but instead, we focused on the joy and horror of turning 50… their joy, my horror
Bravely, I have declared war on lasagne (and to everyone saying I need to be a better cook, I am a great cook but lasagne is impossible) www.thetimes.com/article/c9c7...
Sorry, Delia, but lasagne is not a ‘simple supper’
Never in the entire history of the English language has such unimaginable misery been concealed so convincingly in just 34 words of a recipe
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Must be hard enough to find a partner when you have an arm penis but being called the blob can't help "Also known as the blob octopus, they have eight arms - but in males one of the arms is also a reproductive organ that they attach to females when mating." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mystery as remains of seven-arm deep-sea octopus wash up on beach
Arms from the rarely-seen species were discovered at an Aberdeenshire national nature reserve.
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Late contender for headline (and stand) of the year… so nice to read furniture that isn’t SEOed to death (unless search engines are now tuned to partner and bishop?)
Reading for pleasure is essential for health and joy, but Britain is facing a reading crisis. I am supporting the Sunday Times Get Britain Reading campaign. Join me and pledge to spend at least 10 minutes a day reading for the next six weeks… link.thetimes.co.uk/join/74t/sig...
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Ten years after building a 3,000-piece Lego Death Star with my kids (9, 7 and 2), I did it again. The kids were older, I was older… the Death Star was much, much bigger… The galactic task of building a 9,000-piece Lego Death Star www.thetimes.com/article/95eb...
The galactic task of building a 9,000-piece Lego Death Star
Ten years after building its little brother — a mere 3,000 pieces — Matt Rudd and his sons tackled Lego’s largest and most expensive set. Was the force with them?
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Beautiful, upsetting, maddening, heartwarming interview What happened when @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social met her heroine Kathy Burke www.thetimes.com/article/89f8...
What happened when Caitlin Moran met her heroine Kathy Burke
She grew up in poverty and went on to become a comedy icon and best actress winner at Cannes. Now Kathy Burke has written a shocking memoir about her childhood. Caitlin Moran meets her heroine
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The ultimate example of nominative determinism... surgeon Neil Hopper jailed after amputation of his own legs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Surgeon Neil Hopper jailed after amputation of own legs
Neil Hopper claimed that injuries to his legs were the result of sepsis and not self-inflicted.
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When I was nine, I devised a plan to meet Luke Skywalker… it was simple… I would become a journalist and then interview him… didn’t expect it to take 40 years but still…
How many of these do you think we have in our small holiday cottage bedroom? One? Two? …
Friendly annual reminder to all A-level/GCSE students collecting exam results - if a photographer asks you to hold a piece of paper and jump in the air with delight, just say no.
Bags, blenders, antique clocks — if you name it, this army of volunteers in Tunbridge Wells can probably sort it with a smile and a story
My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free
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Favourite story of the year… meeting the 81 - 81! - volunteers and seeing their combined decades of expertise put to work at the Tunbridge Wells repair cafe… My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free www.thetimes.com/article/d9f4...
My uplifting day at the repair café that fixes anything for free
Bags, blenders, antique clocks — if you name it, this army of volunteers in Tunbridge Wells can probably sort it with a smile and a story
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Goodness me, how depressing: The US government is spending $160,000 to burn nearly $10m of contraceptives rather than sell them to the UN to ship to poor nations, according to sources.
An ode to a dog who had a stroke… I used to think it was a waste of money keeping an old dog alive www.thetimes.com/article/6dab...
I used to think it was a waste of money keeping an old dog alive
‘Five years ago I watched in disbelief as a friend spent thousands of pounds he didn’t have on improbable surgery for his 12-year-old dog’
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Excited about National Caviar Day on the 18th. Only 11 more sleeps
Anyone else getting a lot of "press releases" from "relaytheupdate.com", "signalthenews.com" or similar? Emails from alleged humans eg Jasmine, Sienna, Adriana, Iris, Lucille etc. Replies get bounced back. Repping companies such as Number 1 Plates, Ski Vertigo, Plumb World. Is this death by AI PR?
Forecast in the UK is scorching for the next week. If you can, please put out some water sources. One for bees/butterflies* and one for bigger critters. *Shallow bowl with stones is ideal for insects, so they can drink without drowning. If you can manage a bird-height one as well, brilliant.
Very happy to bird bore with you @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social any time… I can play you our top 10 Merlins. Also, we have a tame baby magpie this year. Magpies are ruthless killers but this one is very cute. Ps lovely column
Tried watching Gladiator 2 last night but zzzzzz… is it just Gladiator but with fancier / worse fx? Is it just Game of Thrones with a fancier / worse story? Should I try again?
The legend that is JMW Turner was born 250 years ago, tomorrow, and a host of exhibitions are celebrating his legacy this year. If you want to spend the summer retracing the artist's footsteps throughout the UK @mattrudd.bsky.social tells you how in The Times: www.thetimes.com/article/e01c...
My walk through JMW Turner’s Britain, 250 years later
To celebrate the anniversary of his birth, Matt Rudd retraces the great painter’s steps
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“It’s for the napkins at the truffle brunch on day three. Before the spa treatments at the palazzo and after the blessing from the Dalai Lama on the superyacht.” @mattrudd.bsky.social
When Bezos Met Bridezilla
An exclusive look inside Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Venice wedding—zero-gravity Botox, diamanté candelabras, Dom Pérignon, and all.
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Child A is 16,000th in the queue for a driving test after logging into the DVLA at 6.00.02am one year after the transport minister said it was “unacceptable” that robot scalpers were snapping all the tests released each week. Should this be harder than Oasis tickets? Ridiculous
A great piece by my colleague of 20+ years… Flying rats, gruelling shifts — why do we treat binmen like rubbish? www.thetimes.com/article/75ff...
Flying rats, gruelling shifts — why do we treat binmen like rubbish?
Amid the ongoing refuse collectors’ strike in Birmingham, Stephen Bleach joins a crew in Coventry for an exhausting day
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