MattKennard.com

Where Am I?

Where Can I Go?

What I Have Been Saying

• Donald Rumsfeld
• Sam sat down.
• I found my Wabo
• Dickens and ‘Dombey and Son’
• Monbiot on careers
• Son on Father
• What it might feel like to be from the suburbs
• Veterans job fair demonstrates how they are abandoned after service
• Lesbian kicked out of restaurant for looking too manly!
• How prepared for a disaster is New York City?

What I Have Been Writing

• TBP.com: Barack Obama is not a black man
• Republican Convention: ‘Lax American security’ (Day 5)
• Republican Convention: ‘Inside the RNC’ (Day 4)
• Republican Convention: ‘Bush rails against angry left’ (Day 3)
• Republican Convention: ‘Land of the free’ (Day 2)
• Republican Convention: ‘Diehard teen Republicans’ (Day 1)
• TBP.com: Sibel Edmonds and the U.S. media
• TBP.com: Let’s Focus on Real Issues, People!
• Joseph Stiglitz
• Joseph Stiglitz transcript

What They Say

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  "Smart alec"
  - Henry Kissinger
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  "The only interviewer to have quoted me properly in several years, and this is appreciated in spite of his unsound views"
  - Christopher Hitchens
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  "Great piece...[and]... a beautiful letter."
  - Noam Chomsky
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  "In places you write as if your [sic] unhinged"
  - Frank Ellis, former Leeds Univeristy lecturer
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  "A really great write-up"
  - Howard Zinn
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  "You are very well qualified!"
  - Tony Benn
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  "Huge thanks for your warm and touching token of memory of our meeting"
  - Zygmunt Bauman
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  "Some young twerp"
  - Will Self
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  "Congrats on your great interview, which I admired very much "
  - Mary Riddell
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  "Me gustas tu"
  - Matthew Parris
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  "I withdraw permission for you to use the interview with me"
  - Richard Dawkins
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  "Repeating a lie doesn't make it true, but that's exactly what Matthew Kennard attempted "
  - Alan Dershowitz
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  "Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar too nice "
  - Johann Hari
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  "You know your stuff"
  - Michael Mann
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  "That's a great piece... will they print it?"
  - Norman Finkelstein
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  "Matthew Kennard has been one of BULB's finest contributors; on a consistant basis, undoubtedly our best"
  - Amaranta Wright, editor of Bulb magazine
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  "You gave him a harder time than most journalists"
  - Jack Straw's press secretary
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  "The most talented student journalist I've encountered"
  - Maureen Freely
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  "If you fail to take the article down from your website and publish an apology, we will issue proceedings against you without further notice for an injunction,damages and costs."
  - Marilyn Stowe's lawyers
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  "Mr. Kennard is a quite extraordinary student, perhaps among the top five it has been my pleasure to teach"
  - Ricardo Blaug
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  "One could easily see the honorary degrees being busily prepared for Matthew and his neo-Stalinist solution to the universities' ongoing dilemma!"
  - Chris Brand