Alex Smith
@infotainer.bsky.social
Dad, Grandad, Husband, Reader, Listener
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Reform UK councillor slapped with a £40,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker. 🤔
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reform UK councillor slapped with a £40,000 fine for hiring an illegal worker. 🤔
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
So much for "taking back control", apparently the rule is: deport them… but only after we’ve squeezed some cheap labour out of them.
A masterclass in hypocrisy!
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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”
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If you’re in Oxford today (Saturday) come and hear David Bather Woods discussing his new book on Schopenhauer - 11am top floor of Blackwell’s in Broad Street. Free event…
December 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
If you’re in Oxford today (Saturday) come and hear David Bather Woods discussing his new book on Schopenhauer - 11am top floor of Blackwell’s in Broad Street. Free event…
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“Is the person who said these things a fit person to be our prime minister?"
Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.
Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Is the person who said these things a fit person to be our prime minister?"
Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.
Peter Ettedgui tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social why he ‘didn’t hesitate’ to go public with his accusations against his former classmate Nigel Farage.
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Here's the whole interview.
youtu.be/DMlj-Tn2_BA?...
youtu.be/DMlj-Tn2_BA?...
Former Farage classmate tells James O'Brien why he came forward
YouTube video by LBC
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Here's the whole interview.
youtu.be/DMlj-Tn2_BA?...
youtu.be/DMlj-Tn2_BA?...
My wife watched some Christmas shopping stuff on Channel 5 on Friday evening. I noticed that the programmes were "proudly sponsored" by Help for Heroes! So that's where a chunk of your charitable donations goes. Sponsoring rubbish TV. Certainly not helping "heroes".
November 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
My wife watched some Christmas shopping stuff on Channel 5 on Friday evening. I noticed that the programmes were "proudly sponsored" by Help for Heroes! So that's where a chunk of your charitable donations goes. Sponsoring rubbish TV. Certainly not helping "heroes".
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Perpetrators of genocide & ethnic cleansing
Israeli Defence Forces
are the terrorists,
not painters of a plane
#PalestineAction
#SocialistSunday
(ps how about a Government petition proscribing IDF as terrorists - if they allowed it!)
Israeli Defence Forces
are the terrorists,
not painters of a plane
#PalestineAction
#SocialistSunday
(ps how about a Government petition proscribing IDF as terrorists - if they allowed it!)
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Perpetrators of genocide & ethnic cleansing
Israeli Defence Forces
are the terrorists,
not painters of a plane
#PalestineAction
#SocialistSunday
(ps how about a Government petition proscribing IDF as terrorists - if they allowed it!)
Israeli Defence Forces
are the terrorists,
not painters of a plane
#PalestineAction
#SocialistSunday
(ps how about a Government petition proscribing IDF as terrorists - if they allowed it!)
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This should be shared!
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This should be shared!
I've just started her "Book of Lives: a Memoir of Sorts". So far it's wonderful. No one will be surprised.
‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more
‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more
Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary author
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've just started her "Book of Lives: a Memoir of Sorts". So far it's wonderful. No one will be surprised.
I absolutely agree. I often leave the room while the news bulletins are on.
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I absolutely agree. I often leave the room while the news bulletins are on.
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Either Nigel Farage is paid by Russia, or he's acting as Putin's agent pro bono ...
meme via Martin Odoni
meme via Martin Odoni
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Either Nigel Farage is paid by Russia, or he's acting as Putin's agent pro bono ...
meme via Martin Odoni
meme via Martin Odoni
So he was lying? What a surprise.
Reform millionaire backer Richard Tice
recently told Times magazine
that he'd never met
convicted Russian bribe taker
Nathan Gill ...
recently told Times magazine
that he'd never met
convicted Russian bribe taker
Nathan Gill ...
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
So he was lying? What a surprise.
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Reform millionaire backer Richard Tice
recently told Times magazine
that he'd never met
convicted Russian bribe taker
Nathan Gill ...
recently told Times magazine
that he'd never met
convicted Russian bribe taker
Nathan Gill ...
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Reform millionaire backer Richard Tice
recently told Times magazine
that he'd never met
convicted Russian bribe taker
Nathan Gill ...
recently told Times magazine
that he'd never met
convicted Russian bribe taker
Nathan Gill ...
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“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”
You can have those for nothing, lads.
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
They are a shower of incompetent fools. How people vote often astonishes me.
Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country.
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...
Reform Council in Chaos as It Prepares to Slash Scrutiny Committees Following Wave of Councillor Suspensions
EXCLUSIVE: Reform's flagship Kent administration is planning to shut down multiple council committees as it struggles to fill posts after suspending nine of its own councillors
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
They are a shower of incompetent fools. How people vote often astonishes me.
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Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc
@partickthistle.bsky.social Really disappointed that Steven Lawless testimonial match is on Friday night. I don't remember a testimonial match not being on a Sunday and less than a week's notice. I'm a Lawless fan but I can't make Friday night.
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
@partickthistle.bsky.social Really disappointed that Steven Lawless testimonial match is on Friday night. I don't remember a testimonial match not being on a Sunday and less than a week's notice. I'm a Lawless fan but I can't make Friday night.
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School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.
Went with my son-in-law to see To Kill a Mockingbird at the Kings in Glasgow last night. I'd go back tonight if I could. Wonderful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Went with my son-in-law to see To Kill a Mockingbird at the Kings in Glasgow last night. I'd go back tonight if I could. Wonderful.
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Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
And my wife and me.
Nice to see that the rest of the world will now join our radio show in referring to him as Andrew Windsor.
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
And my wife and me.
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Nice to see that the rest of the world will now join our radio show in referring to him as Andrew Windsor.
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Nice to see that the rest of the world will now join our radio show in referring to him as Andrew Windsor.
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We don’t need no proof of income
We don’t need no credit score
No dark collateral
Or D.T.I ratio
Banker give those kids a loan
Hey!!!
Banker!!!
Give those kids a loan!! RS
We don’t need no credit score
No dark collateral
Or D.T.I ratio
Banker give those kids a loan
Hey!!!
Banker!!!
Give those kids a loan!! RS
October 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We don’t need no proof of income
We don’t need no credit score
No dark collateral
Or D.T.I ratio
Banker give those kids a loan
Hey!!!
Banker!!!
Give those kids a loan!! RS
We don’t need no credit score
No dark collateral
Or D.T.I ratio
Banker give those kids a loan
Hey!!!
Banker!!!
Give those kids a loan!! RS
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"Nazir Afzal OBE is ex-Chief Crown Prosecutor for NW England, Chancellor of Manchester University, chair of Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency.
Maybe listen to him if you won’t listen to Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Zack Polanski, Richard Murphy, Zarah Sultana ..."
via The Daily Politik
Maybe listen to him if you won’t listen to Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Zack Polanski, Richard Murphy, Zarah Sultana ..."
via The Daily Politik
October 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"Nazir Afzal OBE is ex-Chief Crown Prosecutor for NW England, Chancellor of Manchester University, chair of Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency.
Maybe listen to him if you won’t listen to Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Zack Polanski, Richard Murphy, Zarah Sultana ..."
via The Daily Politik
Maybe listen to him if you won’t listen to Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Stevenson, Zack Polanski, Richard Murphy, Zarah Sultana ..."
via The Daily Politik