Matthew Steeples

Broadstairs, London

Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at The Steeple Times

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Ban the keeping of sloths as pets in the UK

1 month ago | change.org | Matthew Steeples

The mistreatment of sloths - Neotropical xenarthran mammals - in the UK is an absolute disgrace and their being kept as 'pets' must be banned. As Google points out: "You CAN legally keep sloths in the UK because they are neither classified as dangerous nor invasive. But you need a really big enclosure, the necessary skills, and the right amount of cash to properly care for them.
Justice For Jeremy Bamber 2025 – Shocking Expose Of CCRC

2 months ago | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

Last week, in two separate articles, The Guardian’s senior crime and legal affairs reporter Emily Dugan shockingly shared: “For the wrongfully convicted, watching the years disappear from a prison cell, the miscarriage of justice watchdog represents their final hope.
Buy Bargain House Where King Charles I Slept For Just £50k

2 months ago | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

Dame Vanessa Redgrave lived in Bromyard in eastern Herefordshire with her family during the East End Blitz before returning to London in 1943 whilst Garrick Roberts of The Boomtown Rats resided there until his death in November 2022. Now, a timber framed Grade II* listed house where King Charles I was “thought to have slept” on the night of 3rd September 1645 in this market town is up for sale for the surprisingly low sum of just £50,000.
Buy Bargain House Where King Charles I Slept For Just £50k

2 months ago | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

Dame Vanessa Redgrave lived in Bromyard in eastern Herefordshire with her family during the East End Blitz before returning to London in 1943 whilst Garrick Roberts of The Boomtown Rats resided there until his death in November 2022. Now, a timber framed Grade II* listed house where King Charles I was “thought to have slept” on the night of 3rd September 1645 in this market town is up for sale for the surprisingly low sum of just £50,000.
£3.3m ‘Bathtub Bonk Pad’ For Sale; Insane Ghislaine Maxwell

Dec 30, 2024 | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

Just as the meddling mate of the mendacious mucky madam and her pension pot plundering papa that is Peter Mandelson has been ‘anointed’ in Game of Thrones style as Keir Starmer’s ambassador to the United States of America, it can be revealed that the infamous former London home of Ghislaine Maxwell is back on the market.
3 Huge True Crime Cases, 8 Dec

Dec 6, 2024 | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

After Get Carman author Karen Phillipps and her publishers Biteback informed us that she is now unfortunately unavailable due to commitments unexpected elsewhere in the country for our Christmas discussion dinner on Sunday 8th December, we today announce that Matthew Steeples will instead delve into three of the moment cases in a discussion with revered investigative journalist Alexis Parr on the same evening at PJ’s Chelsea Brasserie in London, SW3.
8 Dec Dinner, Karen Phillipps

Dec 2, 2024 | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

“One has to express things in a way a jury finds attractive” and “it is not the duty of a barrister to find out the truth; that is for the jury” are two of the late, great George Carman QC’s most notable remarks. Now, with the publication of Karen Phillipps’s “gripping” new book, Get Carman, reminder of such again comes to the fore.
Put Out To Pasture 2024 Mad Rachel Johnson & Richard Madeley

Nov 17, 2024 | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

Boris Johnson’s birdbrained sister Rachel Johnson couldn’t help herself finding it “hard not to feel a batsqueak of pity for Ghislaine Maxwell” back in November 2021 in an article for The Spectator. Prior, in July 2020, Supermarket Sweep style, champagne loving sort Richard Madeley went further of the since convicted “socialite” turned “sex offender” and bizarrely raged in the Daily Express:“The sharks are circling; they smell blood in the water… Innocent until proven guilty?
Meddling Peter Mandelson SHOULDN'T Be UK Ambassador To US 24

Nov 14, 2024 | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

The Right Honourable Lord Mandelson PC is undoubtedly a terribly clever chap. He became known as the ‘Prince of Darkness’ with very good reason and it is understable that he is noted as “ruthless” and “media savvy.” Here, indeed, is a 71-year-old former Young Communist League member who has not only “played the game” for his entire career, but here also is someone who has most definitely “manipulated it” throughout his entire lifetime.
Best - Worst Trending Topics, Steeples Says - 12th Nov 2024

Nov 12, 2024 | thesteepletimes.com | Matthew Steeples

Billionairess busybody Taylor Swift…Prized pillock politicians would do well to distance themselves after their Cruel Summer with this blonde bombshell. Hanging off her coattails didn’t turn into a Love Story for either Kamala Harris or Keir Starmer. Sir Keir Starmer allowing Lord Alli to pay for his wife’s clothing and his own spectacles…Send her to Primark; send him to Specsavers.