Matthew Fell

What I say, what you hear, what I mean, what you understand. Watching history repeat itself. Words are all my own. Older, not wiser

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@FPLMattW Jacquet and andrey Santos

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@clairlemon Tell me more about that assessment of aerobic bias and what else did it tell you? Was it worth it and have you changed based on the data?

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@chilternrailway @chilternrailway I stand corrected. Apologies. Your app said 2 carriages at 7.10 and your 7.25 train turned up at GM with 5 carriages. All is good.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@chilternrailway I appreciate you and engineering works over the weekend that lasted to yesterday, but why has the 7.25 only got two carriages and not its usual 5? Poor planning? Poor availability? Or do you think everyone is still on Easter break and travelling less?

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@chilternrailway Great. What is your unit availability percentage for today? I can’t believe the 7.25 from great missenden is the only one missing three carriages!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Frank Gardner @FrankRGardner]

Dr.Fiona Hill, co-author of the UK Strategic Defence Review, tells a packed audience at London’s Guildhall she believes WW3 has already begun, just not in the way most people imagine.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@AnfieldWatch Hell no

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Reform

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@indykaila I am disgusted at how leaky our club is with information.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@indykaila @LFC Get back in your lane.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@almurray Excellent tie, Sir.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@McFaul Cheesemakers

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@Acyn Les incompétents

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@LiverpoolVista Stunning.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@edwardstrngr Maintain your values and standards Air Marshal. Not your best response.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@deanwball @Dominic2306 The next war was always over natural resources. This is where the war starts.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@TheAnfieldWrap 600-0. Isak with so many Hattricks.

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@almurray @WeHaveWaysPod I saw you two in Kelly’s Heroes I’m sure. Tank crew weren’t you?

[Matthew Fell @MatthewAFell]

@WHW_CambridgeIC @almurray @WeHaveWaysPod @AndyAitcheson Love a Bailey bridge.