Sam Smith
@thesamsmith.bsky.social
Sam Smith was editor of The Journal. Now author of several novels and collections of poetry - http://samsmithbooks.weebly.com - he presently lives in Blaengarw, South Wales, and blogs here - thesamsmith.webs.com
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop foreign interference in British politics
British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Although first published some time back 'We Need Madmen' has become, to my disappointment, increasingly topical. Here, as part of my Last Hurrah project, is its latest edition - www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GF427VN8
We Need Madmen: Amazon.co.uk: Smith, Sam: 9798233052446: Books
Buy We Need Madmen by Smith, Sam (ISBN: 9798233052446) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Although first published some time back 'We Need Madmen' has become, to my disappointment, increasingly topical. Here, as part of my Last Hurrah project, is its latest edition - www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GF427VN8
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Trump’s Kill Switch: secure our Digital Sovereignty
Imagine waking up tomorrow and finding the UK government, your bank, or even our hospital systems suddenly offline. Not because of hackers, but because a foreign company, or a foreign leader decided t...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 9, 2026 at 8:38 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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As part of my Last Hurrah project my novel 'A Chicken Farmer's Thoughts on Love' was published 24th September 2025. Bawdy and subversionary, narrator is a Chicken Farmer at odds with...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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NHS staff carry huge responsibility — and often serious concerns.
If you’re seeing unsafe staffing, pressure to cut corners, or decisions that risk patient care or staff wellbeing, you deserve a safe way to speak out.
Share your testimony confidentially 👉
whistleblowersoftware.com/secure/every...
If you’re seeing unsafe staffing, pressure to cut corners, or decisions that risk patient care or staff wellbeing, you deserve a safe way to speak out.
Share your testimony confidentially 👉
whistleblowersoftware.com/secure/every...
January 6, 2026 at 7:44 AM
NHS staff carry huge responsibility — and often serious concerns.
If you’re seeing unsafe staffing, pressure to cut corners, or decisions that risk patient care or staff wellbeing, you deserve a safe way to speak out.
Share your testimony confidentially 👉
whistleblowersoftware.com/secure/every...
If you’re seeing unsafe staffing, pressure to cut corners, or decisions that risk patient care or staff wellbeing, you deserve a safe way to speak out.
Share your testimony confidentially 👉
whistleblowersoftware.com/secure/every...
Tech companies seem to rely now on advancing AI. This increase in tech use requires greater use of electricity. Big tech has come up with 2 responses to this need for more electricity. One is a return to fossil fuels - see Trump - the other is an increase in nuclear power.
Grok is producing sexualised content designed to harass women and girls on an industrial scale. Not to mention out and out CSAM. The story is only just starting to break in the mainstream.
It will go well beyond just X and Musk. The other companies *absolutely* should get ahead of it.
It will go well beyond just X and Musk. The other companies *absolutely* should get ahead of it.
January 5, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Tech companies seem to rely now on advancing AI. This increase in tech use requires greater use of electricity. Big tech has come up with 2 responses to this need for more electricity. One is a return to fossil fuels - see Trump - the other is an increase in nuclear power.
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From Washington to Europe, the same organisations keep appearing – Heritage, Heartland, Koch-linked groups – pushing identical anti-net zero scripts & climate change scepticism.
It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives
It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives
Inside MAGA’s worldwide campaign to undermine climate science
What began as US culture war politics has become a well-funded, coordinated global campaign to undermine climate science and democracy
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January 5, 2026 at 6:41 AM
From Washington to Europe, the same organisations keep appearing – Heritage, Heartland, Koch-linked groups – pushing identical anti-net zero scripts & climate change scepticism.
It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives
It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
Shady billionaires can quietly pour money into our elections, completely hidden from view.
Join me and add your name to the petition to stop this.
38d.gs
December 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
If you got a kindle or similar device this Christmas many of my books, among others, are going for free here - www.smashwords.com/sale. Do a search for Sam Smith books.
Smashwords – Sitewide Sale
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December 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If you got a kindle or similar device this Christmas many of my books, among others, are going for free here - www.smashwords.com/sale. Do a search for Sam Smith books.
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
Shady billionaires can quietly pour money into our elections, completely hidden from view.
Join me and add your name to the petition to stop this.
38d.gs
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Join me and sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/xvqe
Nadolig Llawen / Merry Christmas to all my friends and readers. samsmithbooks.weebly.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Nadolig Llawen / Merry Christmas to all my friends and readers. samsmithbooks.weebly.com
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Don’t let them die.
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Don’t let them die.
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£18 - hourly rate for a resident doctor after the 29% rise
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
£18 - hourly rate for a resident doctor after the 29% rise
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
Force the government to meet with the Palestine Action hunger strikers NOW
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Force the government to meet with the Palestine Action hunger strikers NOW
Palestine Action activists are in the middle of their hunger strike, and their situation is desperate. Some of them have not eaten for 46 days. They have been refused medical attention, their communic...
goodlaw.social
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Force the government to meet with the Palestine Action hunger strikers NOW
goodlaw.social/8f6640
goodlaw.social/8f6640
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Yet all we hear is silence....
If it was the other way around...
Well...the heavens would literally fall.
If it was the other way around...
Well...the heavens would literally fall.
Ceasefire or no ceasefire
Zionist encroachment
in the West Bank of Palestine
by settlers & soldiers taught
that all Arabs are "vermin"
towards establishing
Greater Israel
continues apace ...
meme via Nas Ali
Zionist encroachment
in the West Bank of Palestine
by settlers & soldiers taught
that all Arabs are "vermin"
towards establishing
Greater Israel
continues apace ...
meme via Nas Ali
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Yet all we hear is silence....
If it was the other way around...
Well...the heavens would literally fall.
If it was the other way around...
Well...the heavens would literally fall.
Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and weaken human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on public pressure. Add your name to defend equality: a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/
Defend equality and LGBTI+ lives in Slovakia
Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and reject international human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on us. A...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Slovakia rewrote its Constitution to erase rights for LGBT+ people and weaken human rights protections. The EU has opened an infringement procedure – but stronger action depends on public pressure. Add your name to defend equality: a.allout.org/s/v0qyx/
My new friend Dixie made a video for me.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
My new friend Dixie made a video for me.
I just wrote a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social letter to Drax's partners and the DSIT calling on them to reject and cut ties with Drax's AI Data Centre. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/say-...
Say NO to Drax's AI Data Centre
Stop Burning Trees just handed in a petition to David Skaith, Charlie Jeffery and Liz Kendall MP calling on them to reject and cut ties with the proposed Drax-powered AI Data Centre. Both the North Yo...
actionnetwork.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I just wrote a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social letter to Drax's partners and the DSIT calling on them to reject and cut ties with Drax's AI Data Centre. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/say-...
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Thames Water is teetering but wants to pay £2.5m bonus to execs.
Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments".
Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged.
Privatisation = Abuses and insanity.
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Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments".
Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged.
Privatisation = Abuses and insanity.
archive.ph/zbbaQ
archive.ph
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Thames Water is teetering but wants to pay £2.5m bonus to execs.
Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments".
Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged.
Privatisation = Abuses and insanity.
archive.ph/zbbaQ
Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments".
Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged.
Privatisation = Abuses and insanity.
archive.ph/zbbaQ
A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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The last time the world got over-excited about a new technology, people lost a lot of money - and ended up looking pretty stupid
✏️ Matt Muir
✏️ Matt Muir
NFTs: a warning from history
The last time the world got over-excited about a new technology, people lost a lot of money - and ended up looking pretty stupid. The AI bubble risks being just the same
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The last time the world got over-excited about a new technology, people lost a lot of money - and ended up looking pretty stupid
✏️ Matt Muir
✏️ Matt Muir
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This is big: Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have all pulled out of Eurovision, because Israel have been allowed to enter. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition calling for a UK boycott now: 38d.gs/aba_
Sign the petition: tell the BBC to boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned
This is big: Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have all pulled out of Eurovision, because Israel have been allowed to enter. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bos...
38d.gs
December 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is big: Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have all pulled out of Eurovision, because Israel have been allowed to enter. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition calling for a UK boycott now: 38d.gs/aba_