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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?

BY Matthew Sweet / 6 mins

Vasectomies won’t save the planet

BY Matthew Sweet / 6 mins

The humiliation of the Elephant Man

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

When fake news was harmless fun

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

Do you believe in luck?

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

Could you spot a conspiracy theorist?

BY Matthew Sweet / 7 mins

Charlie Chaplin would’ve beaten Hitler

BY Matthew Sweet / 6 mins

The other virus haunting our screens

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

Stop fighting over street names

BY Matthew Sweet / 2 mins

Was the British Empire a curse?

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

The painful truth about gout

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

Cheap crap is who we are

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

The last gasps of a European empire

BY Matthew Sweet / 4 mins

Hull’s irresistible perversity

BY Matthew Sweet / 6 mins

Let food bank clients eat cake

BY Matthew Sweet / 6 mins

Why panto has its knockers

BY Matthew Sweet / 6 mins

Have you been paying attention?

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

Did Colston deserve his watery grave?

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

Anti-Semitism runs deep in Britain

BY Matthew Sweet / 6 mins

Since when did the Tories care about workers?

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

Enough with the crazy talk, Eamonn Holmes

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

How Boris became the body politic

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins

How to live in a dying society

BY Matthew Sweet / 3 mins

Sex: a warning from history

BY Matthew Sweet / 5 mins