Joe Smallman
@joesmallman.bsky.social
Work in public affairs. Barbara Castle and Carly Rae Jepsen evangelist. All opinions my own, etc. 🌹🇬🇧🏳️🌈 he/him
Found @jonsopel1.bsky.social in an art gallery in Bruges... @newsagents.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Found @jonsopel1.bsky.social in an art gallery in Bruges... @newsagents.bsky.social
Forever stanning Gwen and Dave Coaches (and Dave Coaches helping Smithy get the girl 🥺)
December 25, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Forever stanning Gwen and Dave Coaches (and Dave Coaches helping Smithy get the girl 🥺)
My views on protest rights after sitting in an office in Westminster all day listening to these bloody farmers:
December 11, 2024 at 2:50 PM
My views on protest rights after sitting in an office in Westminster all day listening to these bloody farmers:
So I finally saw Wicked and it was great (duh) but when did cinema etiquette get SO bad?!
December 6, 2024 at 10:57 PM
So I finally saw Wicked and it was great (duh) but when did cinema etiquette get SO bad?!
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A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
November 29, 2024 at 1:52 PM
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
Tough day for Labour homosexuals choosing between the BRAT Arena Tour and the Number 10 World AIDS Day reception
November 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Tough day for Labour homosexuals choosing between the BRAT Arena Tour and the Number 10 World AIDS Day reception
Love to see the Tories fall into the trap of making wealthy landowners and private schools their two main target demographics. Centre ground well and truly vacated. #pmqs
November 20, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Love to see the Tories fall into the trap of making wealthy landowners and private schools their two main target demographics. Centre ground well and truly vacated. #pmqs
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Sometimes I think about the fact that the dominant ‘popular history’ of the 70s among educated left of centre types was written by a guy who says inflation is basically a fake problem ‘moral panic’ and people couldn’t really have been mad about it
The revealed preference of voters everywhere for a very long time is a willingness to tolerate all kinds of economic turmoil over high inflation and mortgage payments
November 17, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Sometimes I think about the fact that the dominant ‘popular history’ of the 70s among educated left of centre types was written by a guy who says inflation is basically a fake problem ‘moral panic’ and people couldn’t really have been mad about it
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so we moved to bluesky
November 15, 2024 at 4:53 AM
so we moved to bluesky
Insane how I didn't see just how cursed X had become until I joined Bluesky. Like a frog being boiled alive.
November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Insane how I didn't see just how cursed X had become until I joined Bluesky. Like a frog being boiled alive.
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Though there are obviously big differences there's something of the Cummings/Johnson dynamic here. Two people thinking they're using the other one to achieve diametrically opposite objectives following a brief period where their interests matched.
I see Musk is complaining that the US govt has spent $8trn more than it has taxed in the last *eight* years, and this is a problem (he's right there - it is).
But it's also impossible to reconcile that complaint with Trumpism. There has to be a falling out if one or the other doesn't submit.
But it's also impossible to reconcile that complaint with Trumpism. There has to be a falling out if one or the other doesn't submit.
November 14, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Though there are obviously big differences there's something of the Cummings/Johnson dynamic here. Two people thinking they're using the other one to achieve diametrically opposite objectives following a brief period where their interests matched.
Princess Diana would have loved Bluesky
November 14, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Princess Diana would have loved Bluesky