Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet is a broadcaster and writer. His books include Inventing the Victorians and Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers and Themselves.

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Are you normal?

25 Jul 2022

Vasectomies won’t save the planet

02 Feb 2022

The humiliation of the Elephant Man

19 Oct 2021

When fake news was harmless fun

17 Sep 2021

Do you believe in luck?

23 Aug 2021

Could you spot a conspiracy theorist?

23 Apr 2021

Charlie Chaplin would’ve beaten Hitler

08 Apr 2021

The other virus haunting our screens

22 Jan 2021

Stop fighting over street names Robert Jenrick's ideological battle with Birmingham Council is unnecessary

18 Jan 2021

Was the British Empire a curse?

31 Dec 2020

The painful truth about gout

15 Dec 2020

Cheap crap is who we are

02 Oct 2020

The last gasps of a European empire

02 Sep 2020

Hull’s irresistible perversity

12 Aug 2020

Let food bank clients eat cake

15 Jul 2020

Why panto has its knockers

08 Jul 2020

Have you been paying attention?

16 Jun 2020

Did Colston deserve his watery grave?

08 Jun 2020

Anti-Semitism runs deep in Britain

20 May 2020

Since when did the Tories care about workers?

01 May 2020

Enough with the crazy talk, Eamonn Holmes

16 Apr 2020

How Boris became the body politic

08 Apr 2020

How to live in a dying society

09 Aug 2019

Sex: a warning from history

30 Oct 2018