
Matthew Syed
@matthewsyed
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Author of Rebel Ideas, Black Box Thinking, Bounce and You Are Awesome. Columnist for @TheTimes and The Sunday Times. Presenter of Sideways on @BBCRadio4
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Joined May 2010
Debate with @piersmorgan: is.the UK a racist society? Absolutely not. But we need to ban cousin marriage, as proposed by @RicHolden. Cousin marriage keeps some immigrant communities separate from wider society - and incubates block voting and other scourges
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RT @AndrewGold_ok: The best explanation I've ever heard for why mass immigration hasn't worked in the UK. @matthewsyed on the history of co….
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Fascinating interview with @netanyahu. Tough and perceptive questioning from @KonstantinKisin and @francisjfoster
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Podcast Episode · TRIGGERnometry · 20/08/2025 · 43m
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This is an absolute gem of a conversation! Not just about Melvyn Bragg but so much more. @GylesB1 is perhaps the finest interviewer of the age
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Podcast Episode · Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · 22/08/2025 · 59m
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RT @matthewsyed: The majority are right that borders matter; love of nation is admirable; illegal immigrants should be deported; biological….
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Ordinary people will no longer stand for being told common sense is ‘far right’ — and quite rightly so
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The majority are right that borders matter; love of nation is admirable; illegal immigrants should be deported; biological males shouldn’t compete in women’s sport; people should be judged on merit, not colour; & western history is admirable, not shaming.
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Ordinary people will no longer stand for being told common sense is ‘far right’ — and quite rightly so
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RT @simonmontefiore: Commonsense voters see the abject folly of the West’s purity spiral.
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Ordinary people will no longer stand for being told common sense is ‘far right’ — and quite rightly so
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RT @matthewsyed: The astonishing purity spiral of hyperliberals threatens the liberal order .
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Ordinary people will no longer stand for being told common sense is ‘far right’ — and quite rightly so
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The astonishing purity spiral of hyperliberals threatens the liberal order .
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Ordinary people will no longer stand for being told common sense is ‘far right’ — and quite rightly so
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RT @dolphinsands: Matthew Syed gives a compelling take on the multi-dimensionality of time.
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Matthew Syed asks if slow-motion experiences suggest the way we think of time is illusory.
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RT @matthewsyed: Difficult to say this given the national euphoria. But Hannah Hampton’s bottle stunt was clearly wrong - and it’s embarras….
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England goalkeeper should be condemned for throwing away Spanish counterpart’s water bottle during Euro 2025 shoot-out, not have her boasts met with admiration
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Difficult to say this given the national euphoria. But Hannah Hampton’s bottle stunt was clearly wrong - and it’s embarrassing that she boasted about it 👇.
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England goalkeeper should be condemned for throwing away Spanish counterpart’s water bottle during Euro 2025 shoot-out, not have her boasts met with admiration
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Can time slow down? Sideways episode on time dilation experienced by stuntmen: how everything seems to go into slow motion during a death defying stunt. And how quantum physics might explain this 👇
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Matthew Syed asks if slow-motion experiences suggest the way we think of time is illusory.
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Excellent from @Dannythefink. There is no future in politics of victimhood.
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Mass migration was a reckless error but encouraging white majority resentment as a response would be calamitous
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Debate with @MearsheimerJ on the future of Ukraine. I argue the “realist” position is unrealistic and dangerous and set out the alternative. Hosted by the excellent (and fair-minded) @freddiesayers of @unherd
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Podcast Episode · UnHerd with Freddie Sayers · 19/08/2025 · 1h 16m
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RT @AmandaPCraig: We have failed Ukraine in every way, even with the words we use. Stunningly good, fierce, truthfu….
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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RT @matthewsyed: Calling all journalists! Never call Putin “President”. He’s a “parasite” on Russia, a “kleptocrat”, one of the great “mon….
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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Calling all journalists! Never call Putin “President”. He’s a “parasite” on Russia, a “kleptocrat”, one of the great “monsters” of history. Get the language right and perhaps moral clarity and courage might follow….
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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