The Two Matts Q&A: Are we journalists or activists?
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Matts answer your questions in their regular Sunday Q&A show, including whether their mission to see Reform fail is blinding them to the full picture, how the war in Iran is going for Donald Trump, whether Scotland’s MSPs can hack it, whether we have a problem in discussing Muslim culture in the UK and if The Repair Shop was right to cancel Bob Monkhouse. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | We were quite early, you know, before it was fashionable, to say that Farage could be |
| 0:07.2 | Prime Minister, you know, that he had skills and talents and abilities that should not be ignored. |
| 0:16.2 | I think one thing that Trump has done, for all the wrong reasons, maybe as far as we are concerned, |
| 0:23.6 | is he's made it clear that European defence has been totally inadequate. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm old enough to have a kind of fondness for the phrase, political correctness gone mad, because it's all wokeness now. Yeah, the wokeness gone mad, workerati. But political correctness gone mad, because it's all wokeness now. |
| 0:37.8 | You know, wokeness gone mad, wokeerati. |
| 0:40.0 | But political correctness gone mad has got a real 90s vibe to it. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello and happy Sunday. |
| 0:47.8 | Happy Sunday, one and all. |
| 0:49.3 | Hope you're all having a great weekend. |
| 0:50.8 | This is the two mats podcast brought to you by the subscribers of the New |
| 0:54.1 | World magazine. Do join them. First question comes from Dan in Warwickshire and Dan says, |
| 1:00.9 | on a number of occasions in recent weeks, both of you have stated that your number one objective |
| 1:07.0 | between now and 2029 is to prevent a reform government. |
| 1:11.6 | Whilst I wish you well in your endeavours, is there a danger in blurring the line between being a journalist and being an activist? |
| 1:19.6 | Could either of you, for example, bring yourselves to write anything positive about reform, even if you genuinely believed it to be true? Or would your |
| 1:29.3 | number one objective always win out? Well, Matt, are you a journalist or an activist or something? |
| 1:34.7 | Well, by way of preamble, in the culture newsletter on Friday, I recommended a great, great |
| 1:41.5 | movie, which I recommend to everyone everyone called Orwell 2 and 2 plus |
| 1:46.3 | equals 5, directed by Raal Peck, which just resurfaces a lot of Orwell's greatest hits, as it were, |
| 1:53.1 | just makes you realize how constantly, he's so familiar, but he's also so vivid. That's the |
| 1:59.3 | paradox of him. And one of the lines that's in the movie, and it really, you know, I wrote it down is the opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. |
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