Kevin Smith
@kevinjgsmith.bsky.social
I train and fix up progressive voices for UK TV and radio. Broadcast media nerd. Into politics, climate & energy, social justice issues, #lgbtqia, disco history, trouble making, media stuff, he/him
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Don't take your policy out in public, it's unseemly. Your policy is not your message. The *outcome* of your policy is your message - the life it will deliver for people.
In other words, sell the brownie, not the recipe, like every effective marketer knows.
In other words, sell the brownie, not the recipe, like every effective marketer knows.
one of the things i think is that policies answer the question of “what will you do” but they don’t answer the question of “why should i vote for you” and i think there is a tendency in this broad conversation to equate the two
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Don't take your policy out in public, it's unseemly. Your policy is not your message. The *outcome* of your policy is your message - the life it will deliver for people.
In other words, sell the brownie, not the recipe, like every effective marketer knows.
In other words, sell the brownie, not the recipe, like every effective marketer knows.
If people feel comfortable saying these things on an incredibly public platform, imagining what they are saying/doing in private www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform MP's comments 'ugly' but intention was not racist, Farage says
Sarah Pochin apologised after complaining about adverts being "full" of black and Asian people.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If people feel comfortable saying these things on an incredibly public platform, imagining what they are saying/doing in private www.bbc.com/news/article...
There is nothing inevitable about politics. Grateful for the many people who knocked on many doors and told a different story www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reform swaggered into Caerphilly, ready for a coronation. An unpleasant surprise lay in store | Will Hayward
Predictions of a Reform win were wide of the mark. But Labour’s crushing byelection defeat offers important lessons too, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
There is nothing inevitable about politics. Grateful for the many people who knocked on many doors and told a different story www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Grateful for @theblessedmadonna.bsky.social standing up for our community in the face of such horrific ignorance. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/23/t...
The Blessed Madonna blasts Róisín Murphy's trans youth post: 'Go f**k yourself'
The Blessed Madonna has ripped into musician Róisín Murphy for a post about the purported decline in young people identifying as transgender.
www.thepinknews.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Grateful for @theblessedmadonna.bsky.social standing up for our community in the face of such horrific ignorance. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/23/t...
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BREAKING: Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says International Federation for Human Rights
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says International Federation for Human Rights
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
BREAKING: Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says International Federation for Human Rights
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says International Federation for Human Rights
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Do you know people who are reporting on the UN climate talks in Brazil (Nov 10-21)? We have a very comprehensive list of international folks who will on the ground and are are available for interviews, quotes, briefings, opinion pieces or any other media needs. Message me for the list
October 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Do you know people who are reporting on the UN climate talks in Brazil (Nov 10-21)? We have a very comprehensive list of international folks who will on the ground and are are available for interviews, quotes, briefings, opinion pieces or any other media needs. Message me for the list
How do we live in a world where we allow this to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
How do we live in a world where we allow this to happen? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
What even is the point if Ofcom? www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/g...
GB News' homophobic slur breached Ofcom code – but channel won't face any sanctions
Ofcom has said GB News breached its Broadcasting Code over the use of a homophobic slur, but have refused to sanction the channel.
www.thepinknews.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
What even is the point if Ofcom? www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/g...
Transphobes want to exclude trans people from all the spaces that they possibly can, including the beautiful bathing ponds on Hampstead Heath - here's a short consultation form that it's important for allies to fill in hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds
Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Transphobes want to exclude trans people from all the spaces that they possibly can, including the beautiful bathing ponds on Hampstead Heath - here's a short consultation form that it's important for allies to fill in hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is
Noticeable how police resources are stretched to deal with ‘actual terrorism’ when they are having to deal at the same time with ‘not actual terrorism at all but ridiculously designated as such by the government’
October 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Noticeable how police resources are stretched to deal with ‘actual terrorism’ when they are having to deal at the same time with ‘not actual terrorism at all but ridiculously designated as such by the government’
More than 60,000 people have signed a new petition within 24 hours calling for PPE-scandal peer Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and removed from the House of Lords www.change.org/p/strip-mich...
Sign the Petition
Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage
www.change.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
More than 60,000 people have signed a new petition within 24 hours calling for PPE-scandal peer Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and removed from the House of Lords www.change.org/p/strip-mich...
Grateful that we have a political leader in the UK - @zackpolanski.bsky.social - who unapologetically articulates a positive vision of migration. This is a mainstream position - the Spanish Prime Minister says very similar things. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski
Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Grateful that we have a political leader in the UK - @zackpolanski.bsky.social - who unapologetically articulates a positive vision of migration. This is a mainstream position - the Spanish Prime Minister says very similar things. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Synagogue attack in Manchester just so grim and horrific. Thinking of all Jewish friends and beyond who don't feel safe.
October 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Synagogue attack in Manchester just so grim and horrific. Thinking of all Jewish friends and beyond who don't feel safe.
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‼️ URGENTE ‼️
@juanbordera.bsky.social desde el mar: están a punto de ser interceptados por Israel.
🔴 Viajan sin protección, abandonados por los gobiernos que deberían garantizar su seguridad.
🚨Testimonio urgente de un crimen en marcha.
@juanbordera.bsky.social desde el mar: están a punto de ser interceptados por Israel.
🔴 Viajan sin protección, abandonados por los gobiernos que deberían garantizar su seguridad.
🚨Testimonio urgente de un crimen en marcha.
October 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
‼️ URGENTE ‼️
@juanbordera.bsky.social desde el mar: están a punto de ser interceptados por Israel.
🔴 Viajan sin protección, abandonados por los gobiernos que deberían garantizar su seguridad.
🚨Testimonio urgente de un crimen en marcha.
@juanbordera.bsky.social desde el mar: están a punto de ser interceptados por Israel.
🔴 Viajan sin protección, abandonados por los gobiernos que deberían garantizar su seguridad.
🚨Testimonio urgente de un crimen en marcha.
"And these children that you spit on, as they try to change the world"
"Emma Watson’s so typical of the entitled generation who think they’re right about everything – like the young woman who rolled her eyes at me the other day" Sarah Vine, Mail
October 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"And these children that you spit on, as they try to change the world"
I've backed @fairtaxunionjacks.com - supporting this campaign is a simple way to push back against the Billionaires funding fascism and refocussing our anger on the real problem: WEALTH INEQUALITY! #TaxTheSuperRich www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fair-tax-u...
Fair Tax Union Jacks
Print 1,215 Union Jack flags with the message 'TAX THE SUPER-RICH' and send to community groups and organisations across the UK
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I've backed @fairtaxunionjacks.com - supporting this campaign is a simple way to push back against the Billionaires funding fascism and refocussing our anger on the real problem: WEALTH INEQUALITY! #TaxTheSuperRich www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fair-tax-u...
Can you imagine the uproar of (for instance) the Spanish government forcing UK retirees in Spain to do community service?
September 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Can you imagine the uproar of (for instance) the Spanish government forcing UK retirees in Spain to do community service?
There's lots to decode looking back on The Hitman and Her that ran in the late 80s and early 90s, but one thing that I cannot get my head round is all the men wearing shirts and ties in a nightclub www.youtube.com/watch?v=53WJ...
STV | The Hit Man and Her | 1989
YouTube video by Neil Miles
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September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
There's lots to decode looking back on The Hitman and Her that ran in the late 80s and early 90s, but one thing that I cannot get my head round is all the men wearing shirts and ties in a nightclub www.youtube.com/watch?v=53WJ...
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"This isn't a choice between more North Sea drilling or imports — that ship has sailed. It’s between more imports or ramping up renewables. The transition must be better planned...but as long as the spectre of more drilling hovers, governments will continue to delay."
My letter in today's FT:
My letter in today's FT:
Letter: UK choice — boost oil and gas imports or ramp up renewables
From Tessa Khan, Executive Director of Uplift
www.ft.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"This isn't a choice between more North Sea drilling or imports — that ship has sailed. It’s between more imports or ramping up renewables. The transition must be better planned...but as long as the spectre of more drilling hovers, governments will continue to delay."
My letter in today's FT:
My letter in today's FT:
Wonderful news - Alaa is free! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Alaa Abdel Fattah: British-Egyptian activist reunited with family
After nearly six years in prison, Alaa Abdel Fattah is released from prison in Egypt.
www.bbc.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Wonderful news - Alaa is free! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Happy to bung in a few quid towards this www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fair-tax-u...
Fair Tax Union Jacks
Print 1,215 Union Jack flags with the message 'TAX THE SUPER-RICH' and send to community groups and organisations across the UK
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Happy to bung in a few quid towards this www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fair-tax-u...
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Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he didn't want London Mayor Sadiq Khan at state banquet
The mayor of London did not seek or expect an invite to the state banquet, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's weird that the Free Speech Union don't seem to be saying anything about the Jimmy Kimmel censorship today - it's almost as if the 'free speech crisis' only gets weaponised to reinforce one particular political position.
September 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
It's weird that the Free Speech Union don't seem to be saying anything about the Jimmy Kimmel censorship today - it's almost as if the 'free speech crisis' only gets weaponised to reinforce one particular political position.