Alasdair Smith
@alasdairsmith.bsky.social
“People learn history best when they are making history” CLR James. Love teaching history. CTID🩵
These City players tonight are lightweight - far too easily bullied off the ball and not enough fight.
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
These City players tonight are lightweight - far too easily bullied off the ball and not enough fight.
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Happy Birthday to Joe Corrigan! 🩵
A Manchester-born keeper who made more than 600 appearances for City, won the 1976 League Cup, represented England, and even spent a spell with the Seattle Sounders. A true Sky Blue icon 🏆
A Manchester-born keeper who made more than 600 appearances for City, won the 1976 League Cup, represented England, and even spent a spell with the Seattle Sounders. A true Sky Blue icon 🏆
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Happy Birthday to Joe Corrigan! 🩵
A Manchester-born keeper who made more than 600 appearances for City, won the 1976 League Cup, represented England, and even spent a spell with the Seattle Sounders. A true Sky Blue icon 🏆
A Manchester-born keeper who made more than 600 appearances for City, won the 1976 League Cup, represented England, and even spent a spell with the Seattle Sounders. A true Sky Blue icon 🏆
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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If we have money for missiles & drones, we should have money for school buildings, support staff & resources.
Govt allocates 4.1% of GDP on education, down from 5.7% in 2010.
Why isn't this drop in funding - worth ££billions - not headline news?
We must invest in young people.
Govt allocates 4.1% of GDP on education, down from 5.7% in 2010.
Why isn't this drop in funding - worth ££billions - not headline news?
We must invest in young people.
June 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If we have money for missiles & drones, we should have money for school buildings, support staff & resources.
Govt allocates 4.1% of GDP on education, down from 5.7% in 2010.
Why isn't this drop in funding - worth ££billions - not headline news?
We must invest in young people.
Govt allocates 4.1% of GDP on education, down from 5.7% in 2010.
Why isn't this drop in funding - worth ££billions - not headline news?
We must invest in young people.
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Top result on the pitch and a great collection off it! Supporting Mancunian communities 🤝
Cheers to all who came and celebrated our alternate #115 - our 115th collection since we started the foodbank in 2020 👀
And huge thanks to volunteers Richard, Matthew, Katie and Honor 🩵
#MCFC
Cheers to all who came and celebrated our alternate #115 - our 115th collection since we started the foodbank in 2020 👀
And huge thanks to volunteers Richard, Matthew, Katie and Honor 🩵
#MCFC
November 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Top result on the pitch and a great collection off it! Supporting Mancunian communities 🤝
Cheers to all who came and celebrated our alternate #115 - our 115th collection since we started the foodbank in 2020 👀
And huge thanks to volunteers Richard, Matthew, Katie and Honor 🩵
#MCFC
Cheers to all who came and celebrated our alternate #115 - our 115th collection since we started the foodbank in 2020 👀
And huge thanks to volunteers Richard, Matthew, Katie and Honor 🩵
#MCFC
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Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.
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I shouldn’t be surprised, but it‘s pretty appalling to hear Today on BBC Radio 4 cover Hurricane Melissa exclusively through multiple interviews with British holidaymakers in resorts –completely ignoring actual Jamaicans & the millions of people in the UK worried about family and friends in Jamaica.
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I shouldn’t be surprised, but it‘s pretty appalling to hear Today on BBC Radio 4 cover Hurricane Melissa exclusively through multiple interviews with British holidaymakers in resorts –completely ignoring actual Jamaicans & the millions of people in the UK worried about family and friends in Jamaica.
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Le RN ?
Ce sont des fascistes et des racistes, surtout compatibles avec des milliardaires tout aussi fascistes et racistes, rien d'autre.
Il n'y a rien à tirer de ce parti profondément néfaste, sinon la ruine totale du pays et sa faillite morale absolue.
Ce sont des fascistes et des racistes, surtout compatibles avec des milliardaires tout aussi fascistes et racistes, rien d'autre.
Il n'y a rien à tirer de ce parti profondément néfaste, sinon la ruine totale du pays et sa faillite morale absolue.
October 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Le RN ?
Ce sont des fascistes et des racistes, surtout compatibles avec des milliardaires tout aussi fascistes et racistes, rien d'autre.
Il n'y a rien à tirer de ce parti profondément néfaste, sinon la ruine totale du pays et sa faillite morale absolue.
Ce sont des fascistes et des racistes, surtout compatibles avec des milliardaires tout aussi fascistes et racistes, rien d'autre.
Il n'y a rien à tirer de ce parti profondément néfaste, sinon la ruine totale du pays et sa faillite morale absolue.
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The Louvre Heist gets even more adorable. They escaped on a portable funicular. You know what, let them keep the priceless jewels. Leave 'em to it.
October 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Louvre Heist gets even more adorable. They escaped on a portable funicular. You know what, let them keep the priceless jewels. Leave 'em to it.
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Chaka Khan - I Feel for You (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]
YouTube video by Chaka Khan
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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14 years ago, today: The Demolition of Old Trafford. 😍
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
14 years ago, today: The Demolition of Old Trafford. 😍
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.
The system is broken.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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If we want to build on our momentum, it’s time to prepare for a General Strike.
Build networks of mutual care.
Wean yourself off chain stores.
Disengage from mass consumerism.
Billionaires and corporations don’t care about us.
Starve the beast before it starves us.
🗣️@davenorton.bsky.social
Build networks of mutual care.
Wean yourself off chain stores.
Disengage from mass consumerism.
Billionaires and corporations don’t care about us.
Starve the beast before it starves us.
🗣️@davenorton.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If we want to build on our momentum, it’s time to prepare for a General Strike.
Build networks of mutual care.
Wean yourself off chain stores.
Disengage from mass consumerism.
Billionaires and corporations don’t care about us.
Starve the beast before it starves us.
🗣️@davenorton.bsky.social
Build networks of mutual care.
Wean yourself off chain stores.
Disengage from mass consumerism.
Billionaires and corporations don’t care about us.
Starve the beast before it starves us.
🗣️@davenorton.bsky.social
FYI. The last time City lost three straight Premier League matches was back in the 2005-06 season under manager Stuart Pearce. 😂😂😂#citytillidie
October 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
FYI. The last time City lost three straight Premier League matches was back in the 2005-06 season under manager Stuart Pearce. 😂😂😂#citytillidie
City fans - ManUre beating Liverpoo has to be a great result? Puts Slop under pressure and means Amorim will stay even longer - that’s a win win 😂😂😂 #citytillidie
October 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
City fans - ManUre beating Liverpoo has to be a great result? Puts Slop under pressure and means Amorim will stay even longer - that’s a win win 😂😂😂 #citytillidie
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No kings except Haaland. C’mon City!
October 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
No kings except Haaland. C’mon City!
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“Now is the time to speak up, while you still have a voice.”
#AnimalFarm
#NoKings
📚 @getbetterwithbooks (IG)
#AnimalFarm
#NoKings
📚 @getbetterwithbooks (IG)
October 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“Now is the time to speak up, while you still have a voice.”
#AnimalFarm
#NoKings
📚 @getbetterwithbooks (IG)
#AnimalFarm
#NoKings
📚 @getbetterwithbooks (IG)
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“To celebrate Black History Month, we commissioned a poem by Lemn Sissay OBE to reflect on the club’s journey from Maine Road to today, celebrating the influential black figures who have helped bring us here”
via @mancity.com on the other app
#MCFC
via @mancity.com on the other app
#MCFC
October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“To celebrate Black History Month, we commissioned a poem by Lemn Sissay OBE to reflect on the club’s journey from Maine Road to today, celebrating the influential black figures who have helped bring us here”
via @mancity.com on the other app
#MCFC
via @mancity.com on the other app
#MCFC
Sunlight through the trees
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sunlight through the trees
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Want to involve your kids in No Kings but not comfortable taking them to the protest? 👧🏽🧒🏻👦🏼
Be a morale booster. 🚙👋
🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere
No crowns.
No thrones.
No kings.
@nikkivinck.bsky.social
@kris.and.dave
Be a morale booster. 🚙👋
🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere
No crowns.
No thrones.
No kings.
@nikkivinck.bsky.social
@kris.and.dave
October 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Want to involve your kids in No Kings but not comfortable taking them to the protest? 👧🏽🧒🏻👦🏼
Be a morale booster. 🚙👋
🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere
No crowns.
No thrones.
No kings.
@nikkivinck.bsky.social
@kris.and.dave
Be a morale booster. 🚙👋
🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere
No crowns.
No thrones.
No kings.
@nikkivinck.bsky.social
@kris.and.dave
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It's astonishing to anyone who lived through the 80s, that the Labour party now sit to the right of Tory grandee Heseltine.
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It's astonishing to anyone who lived through the 80s, that the Labour party now sit to the right of Tory grandee Heseltine.
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Should also point out that an Imam was stabbed in Hounslow a few days ago (fortunately not life threatening)
The anti immigration rhetoric from the likes of #Farage, #Badenoch, #Jenrick er al is fanning the flames
#Islamophobia #HateCrime #ManchesterAttack #Racism
www.euronews.com/2025/10/06/p...
The anti immigration rhetoric from the likes of #Farage, #Badenoch, #Jenrick er al is fanning the flames
#Islamophobia #HateCrime #ManchesterAttack #Racism
www.euronews.com/2025/10/06/p...
Police investigate hate crime after mosque set on fire in UK
Footage from the incident, released by police on Sunday, shows two balaclava-clad people approach the front door of the Peacehaven Mosque, before spraying accelerant on the entrance and igniting a fir...
www.euronews.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Should also point out that an Imam was stabbed in Hounslow a few days ago (fortunately not life threatening)
The anti immigration rhetoric from the likes of #Farage, #Badenoch, #Jenrick er al is fanning the flames
#Islamophobia #HateCrime #ManchesterAttack #Racism
www.euronews.com/2025/10/06/p...
The anti immigration rhetoric from the likes of #Farage, #Badenoch, #Jenrick er al is fanning the flames
#Islamophobia #HateCrime #ManchesterAttack #Racism
www.euronews.com/2025/10/06/p...