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Matt Blake

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  • Freelance Journalist and Reporter, Freelance
London
As seen in: The Waterstones Podcast, MSN, MSN UK, Yahoo Entertainment, Daily Mail, Irish Daily Mail, Scottish Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Sun and
Covers:  Human interest, sport, sex, crime, war, mental health and the meaning of life. Others, too.
Author/Journalist | My book HEARTH OF DARKNESS (@eandtbooks) out 30 OCT 2025 | Agent: Dotti Irving @greyhoundlitag

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Matt Blake is a long-form feature writer and journalist from London. His work has appeared in a bunch of national newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Telegraph, Vice, FHM, ShortList, Grazia, Men’s Health, The Independent and The London Magazine.

He started his career at the Daily Mirror as a Graduate Trainee, where he became General Reporter. Though, while he also covered health, sport, showbiz and defence, he mostly reported on crime and the courts for the paper.

Matt later b…

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What is "Zeus' Law" in 'The Odyssey' and Why Does it Matter? An Explainer

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By Matt Blake Verified
| Esquire (UK) Verified
Imagine a world where hospitality to strangers is the law – on pain of divine punishment – and guests are bound to repay it with grace and gratitude. A world where the treatment of outsiders is a test of civilisation, and strangers welcomed today may become hosts tomorrow. It's not that bigots wouldn't exist – just that they'd all have been turned into pigs. What a different world that would be.
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The Odyssey's Brutal Ending Explained: What Happens to Odysseus After That Final Scene?

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By Matt Blake Verified
| Esquire (UK) Verified
Christopher Nolan’s shot at Homer’s ancient classic has been hailed as a towering monument to epic filmmaking. Critics have gushed over the beauty of it all, the magnitude, the cinematic achievement. But it wasn’t half complex, was it? Which I suppose is what Homer would have wanted. Did you follow? Well, if you still don’t know your Circe from your Calypso, or your Scylla from your Charybdis, read on. The Massacre of the Suitors “Odysseus ripped off his rags.
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The Best Watches in Romeo Beckham's Collection, Including a Rolex "Sprite" and a 1980s Audemars Piguet

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By Matt Blake Verified
| Esquire (UK) Verified
If time is a luxury, then Romeo Beckham is wasting none of it. There he was, supporting Our Brave Boys in Atlanta on Wednesday night, counting the seconds like the rest of us as they held onto a 1-0 lead over Argentina, before crumbling at the death in a World Cup semi-final to forget. Of course, there was no need to tell Romeo how long they held out; he only had to look at the £25,000 Royal Oak Selfwinding from Swiss titan Audemars Piguet that he’s worn throughout the tournament.
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