Matt Chorley

London

Presenter at BBC Radio 5 Live

Politics live from Westminster: weekdays from 2pm on @bbc5live. Tour dates now on sale 👇

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1 month ago | mattchorley.substack.com | Matt Chorley

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The end of the end of two-party politics

1 month ago | mattchorley.substack.com | Matt Chorley

Just back from a weekend in Paris. Where on Sunday evening we went to this great hidden little restaurant, Le Cafe du Mars, which came from this excellent list of recommendations by Shelby Chambers which itself came from this excellent list of recommendations from India Knight. Which is all very Substack. We reserved and got a nice table near the bar looking out at, well, cordon fencing.
Chorley Not

1 month ago | mattchorley.substack.com | Matt Chorley

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‘Celine Dion is a no’

1 month ago | mattchorley.substack.com | Matt Chorley

God he’s turning up all the time now with his emails isn’t he? What is it now? Well this is exciting. Really exciting. Friday has arrived so tonight is my first outing as the new Friday presenter of Newsnight. Actual Newsnight. Wacka-wa wa-wa-wa-wah Newsnight. Did you threaten to over-rule him Newsnight. Pizza Express in Woking Newsnight. Could you live on £70 a week Newsnight. Thriller on Halloween Newsnight. And now me on Newsnight.
‘F@%£ off Ed, we’ll put balloons around it’

1 month ago | mattchorley.substack.com | Matt Chorley

There will be lots of comment around today about this week’s elections – including on my 5 Live show from 2pm – but I wanted to go back to a big moment in politics which happened exactly 10 years ago today. Which makes me feel very old. Again. When I wrote about what happened in a car park in Hastings for my book, none of those closest to it would speak on the record. Even now. Let that be a lesson to everyone.
When Macca met Maggie

2 months ago | mattchorley.substack.com | Matt Chorley

As this lands in inboxes I will be at a Raymond Blanc cookery school – a gift from colleagues at The Times when I left last year. Maybe I’ll pick up some foodie tips which will help with the tour. Have been struggling with post-Japan jet lag this week, waking up at 4am or 5am and wide awake. All remedies appreciated.
Big in Japan

2 months ago | mattchorley.substack.com | Matt Chorley

Firstly I’m aware that this is a bit “what I did in my holidays”. OK quite a lot that. But I’m going to try to write on here a bit more often. (Are Sunday mornings a good time?) And this is what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks. So in no particular order, and accepting that this is not a deep assessment of a nation but merely a round-up of lightweight observations, some things that struck me about Japan and the Japanese people.
Local elections might lack glamour, but they matter

2 months ago | bbc.com | Matt Chorley

Matt Chorley: Local elections might lack glamour - but they matterBBCIsaac Newton knew a thing or two about politics. After the great philosopher and scientist had been struck by inspiration (if not actual fruit) when an apple fell from a tree in his Lincolnshire garden, he went on to become an MP. Wandering around that same garden, staring at that same tree (or at least a descendant of it) I thought of all those candidates standing in next month's local elections. Hoping to defy political gravity.
MATT CHORLEY

2 months ago | mattchorley.com | Matt Chorley

For two decades I have feasted on politics, stalking the corridors, pubs and restaurants of Westminster. Now I have all the ingredients to cook up a brand new show looking at parliament's feuding food factions and how politicians really are what they eat. From Keir Starmer’s fish and cheese, to Kemi Badenoch’s love of sandwiches, from Nigel Farage’s proper milk to Ed Davey’s fig rolls, everything (and everyone) is on the menu. WARNING: Politics may contain nuts.
We don't pay enough for our food, says Alan Titchmarsh

2 months ago | bbc.com | Matt Chorley

We don't pay enough for our food, says Alan TitchmarshMatt ChorleyAlan Titchmarsh tells Matt Chorley what he would do as PMTV gardener and horticulturalist Alan Titchmarsh has warned that Britons don't pay enough for their food - but suggested people receive tax cuts for growing their own. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live after watching PMQs, Mr Titchmarsh said food accounted for around 30% of household spending in 1950s, compared to between 8% and 12% today.