Matt

A runner, a reader and a writer. Supporter of QPR and AFC Richmond who used to spend too much time on Twitter. Now on BlueSky, same handle…

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on Nigel Farage’s wildly differing conduct in the wake of three murders that horrified the nation

https://t.co/reI7oQbjVc

[Matt @TheMerce1]

@RATW_official Flawless television. Thank you. The BBC at its very best… 👏 📺 🌍 #RaceAcrossTheWorld

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

[Matt @TheMerce1]

@RowennaDavis Siri, show me a class act… 👀

[Matt @TheMerce1]

@forwardnotback Yes both his books - the memoir and his diary of a year’s eating - are excellent!

[Matt @TheMerce1]

@jcorrigangolf As is listening to The Chipping Forecast, with Eddie alongside @iaincartergolf and @MrAndrewCotter ⛳️ 👏

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@Scaramucci The way he points his finger at her. The rudeness. Still shocking yet no less revolting.., 🤮

[Matt @TheMerce1]

@chrissiebrooks_ Good luck! 🏃‍♀️ 🔵⚪️

[Corey Atad @CoreyAtad]

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. @The_SummerMan https://t.co/mNHk8iiMLY

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Every time you see clips from movies like this all you want to do is watch the film from beginning to end again.
In the case of ATPM - is there anything like this still being made?

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

All the President’s Men turns 50 today.

This famous “six‑minute shot” is a masterclass in phone acting and pure technical nerve.

Director Alan J. Pakula and cinematographer Gordon Willis pull off a single, unbroken slow zoom: from a wide, humming newsroom to a tight close-up on Redford. No cuts. No safety net. Tension builds in real time.

Redford carries it with typical quiet confidence. Six minutes of note-taking and talking into a phone, no flashy “Oscar clip.” He even flubs a name (“McGregor” for “Dahlberg”), corrects himself naturally, and Pakula keeps it because it feels authentic.

The background is part of the story. As Woodward hones in on his phone call, everyone behind him huddles around a TV watching Senator Tom Eagleton resign. The contrast is deliberate: they chase the “obvious” headline, while the camera drifts past them to Woodward, and the real story.

To hold Redford and the busy background in focus early on, they used a split‑diopter lens, then had to ease it out as the camera moves in. A technical tightrope. The timing of both actor and cinematographer is spot on.

As Woodward closes in on the truth, the world literally falls away: the newsroom blurs, the noise fades, and we lock into his obsession. It’s one of cinema’s great moments: Redford doing almost nothing—and somehow everything at the same time.

What makes this shot brilliant is the contrast it carves between Redford and the newsroom around him. The visual language does the talking: he’s locked in, disciplined, driven, all focus and fire. He stands apart because the work matters more than anything else.

[Matt @TheMerce1]

@JeffDarlington Great story but ironically it’s the direct opposite of what Tiger’s buddy, Trump, is trying to do to public golf courses in Washington… https://t.co/UDcYm6Pr7V

[Joel Beall @JoelMBeall]

The National Links Trust saved three Washington D.C. golf courses from ruin. Then Donald Trump got involved. A story about power, whether people have any claim to the places they've spent their lives, and a president's war on public golf https://t.co/WB08TEacBW

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

He is an abomination.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump's Iran War has been a disaster in the U.S., as gas prices eclipse $4.

But in the developing world, the shock of spiralling energy prices has been cataclysmic.

1/ A short thread the scope of the damage Trump has caused. There are crises everywhere and you need to know.

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

This both breaks my heart and fills me with joy.
Four very good people on a long, rare voyage together.
A fine example to us all.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

NASA is the best of America, what America used to be: professional, science-based, dedicated to excellence, idealistic, and dazzlingly ambitious. May America one day recover its NASA soul.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

"Oh yeah, I was just talking to the President."

Tiger Woods strikes me as a massive tool and a huge dickhead.

[Nidhi Razdan @Nidhi]

To think that millions of Americans voted for this man not once, but twice.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

Some days you can’t love social media enough. This is one of those days. It began like this. Someone stole 12 tons of KitKats.

And then the replies started coming in. Scroll down.