Jeremy Smith
@jeremysmith.bsky.social
Co-director PRIME Economics, author of "The Great Brexit Wrench" (PEF, 2019). Past: Gen Secretary of European & international local govt associations, CEO Camden Council, barrister, law centre founder, factotum at ABC tea-shop on Earl's Court Road 1966.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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For years I've been baffled at how so many YIMBYs are in denial about some of the basic environmental ABCs of UK politics.
But at this rate if Starmer and Reed fail to follow @luketryl.bsky.social's shrewd advice the Labour Party will get shredded by the Greens.
www.ft.com/content/f456...
But at this rate if Starmer and Reed fail to follow @luketryl.bsky.social's shrewd advice the Labour Party will get shredded by the Greens.
www.ft.com/content/f456...
December 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
For years I've been baffled at how so many YIMBYs are in denial about some of the basic environmental ABCs of UK politics.
But at this rate if Starmer and Reed fail to follow @luketryl.bsky.social's shrewd advice the Labour Party will get shredded by the Greens.
www.ft.com/content/f456...
But at this rate if Starmer and Reed fail to follow @luketryl.bsky.social's shrewd advice the Labour Party will get shredded by the Greens.
www.ft.com/content/f456...
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Five holly leaves from the same tree 🌳
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Five holly leaves from the same tree 🌳
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
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Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
This is pretty much incitement to terrorism by Johnson. Yet the government idiotically worries about people peacefully holding placards saying "I support Palestine Action".
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is pretty much incitement to terrorism by Johnson. Yet the government idiotically worries about people peacefully holding placards saying "I support Palestine Action".
No comment on this from FT :
"Michelle Mone-linked medical supplier PPE Medpro wound up.. UK govt seeks at least £122mn owed by company that supplied substandard equipment during Covid pandemic".
www.ft.com/content/8954...
Thanks for 'ennobling' her, David Cameron (candidate for worst PM ever)
"Michelle Mone-linked medical supplier PPE Medpro wound up.. UK govt seeks at least £122mn owed by company that supplied substandard equipment during Covid pandemic".
www.ft.com/content/8954...
Thanks for 'ennobling' her, David Cameron (candidate for worst PM ever)
Michelle Mone-linked medical supplier PPE Medpro wound up
UK government seeks at least £122mn owed by company that supplied substandard equipment during Covid pandemic
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
No comment on this from FT :
"Michelle Mone-linked medical supplier PPE Medpro wound up.. UK govt seeks at least £122mn owed by company that supplied substandard equipment during Covid pandemic".
www.ft.com/content/8954...
Thanks for 'ennobling' her, David Cameron (candidate for worst PM ever)
"Michelle Mone-linked medical supplier PPE Medpro wound up.. UK govt seeks at least £122mn owed by company that supplied substandard equipment during Covid pandemic".
www.ft.com/content/8954...
Thanks for 'ennobling' her, David Cameron (candidate for worst PM ever)
Thank heavens for wiser external members of BoE's Monetary Policy Committee, Swati Dhingra & Alan Taylor who have for some time understood UK economy's weakness. Ultra-conservative BoE Chief Economist, Huw Pill, was one of 4 voting not to cut rates as recession bites www.ft.com/content/717c...
Bank of England cuts rates by quarter point to 3.75%
Andrew Bailey signals caution on further cuts even as central bank responds to signs of slowing economy
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thank heavens for wiser external members of BoE's Monetary Policy Committee, Swati Dhingra & Alan Taylor who have for some time understood UK economy's weakness. Ultra-conservative BoE Chief Economist, Huw Pill, was one of 4 voting not to cut rates as recession bites www.ft.com/content/717c...
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sounds like Jim Jordan is running scared
Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee.
Will Jordan release the video to the public?
If not, why not?
Will Jordan release the video to the public?
If not, why not?
December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
sounds like Jim Jordan is running scared
Edward Luce in @FT is right to highlight "Britain’s cringeworthy self-abasement" to Trump's USA, that contemptible mafioso scam machine. Why are Starmer & co (+Tories/Reform) so pathetically weak in standing up for our country's interests & independence? www.ft.com/content/07a6...
The rest of the west is our only bet
Canada’s Mark Carney has shown others that it pays to stand up to Trump
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December 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Edward Luce in @FT is right to highlight "Britain’s cringeworthy self-abasement" to Trump's USA, that contemptible mafioso scam machine. Why are Starmer & co (+Tories/Reform) so pathetically weak in standing up for our country's interests & independence? www.ft.com/content/07a6...
The Grand Scale Robber complains about potential Lesser Scale Robbers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned of ‘severe’ consequences if the EU moves to use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine, calling the proposal an act of ‘robbery’ during his annual press conference. #Russia #Ukraine #EU #Putin #Geopolitics
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Grand Scale Robber complains about potential Lesser Scale Robbers.
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Well done, Yvette Cooper. Dumbest thing you ever did. And soon it seems likely some will die, too.
🚨 BREAKING: Terrorism arrests soar by 660% after everything reclassified as terrorism.
news.sky.com/story/terror...
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Terrorism arrests soar by 660% after Palestine Action ban
Official figures show 1,630, or 86%, of the 1,886 arrests for terrorism-related activity in the year to the end of September 2025 were linked to supporting the group.
news.sky.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Well done, Yvette Cooper. Dumbest thing you ever did. And soon it seems likely some will die, too.
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Reform candidate who told Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other MPs’ loyalty to UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform candidate who told Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other MPs’ loyalty to UK
Exclusive: Labour says Nigel Farage’s party should swiftly condemn Chris Parry after further comments emerge
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reform candidate who told Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other MPs’ loyalty to UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The prize goal for Stephen Miller and others who surround Trump is to trigger both the Alien Enemies Act and the Insurrection Act - formal bases for unlimited executive power.
A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.
A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The prize goal for Stephen Miller and others who surround Trump is to trigger both the Alien Enemies Act and the Insurrection Act - formal bases for unlimited executive power.
A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.
A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.
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*KENNEDY CENTER TO BE RENAMED TRUMP-KENNEDY CENTER: LEAVITT
Bloomberg Terminal headline
Bloomberg Terminal headline
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
*KENNEDY CENTER TO BE RENAMED TRUMP-KENNEDY CENTER: LEAVITT
Bloomberg Terminal headline
Bloomberg Terminal headline
Tech Bros Prosperity Deal. Poverty for everyone else..
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Tech Bros Prosperity Deal. Poverty for everyone else..
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Friedman repeatedly asserts that he only visited Chile once. Reprinting this in 1998 means he is actively concealing the fact that he went back in 1981 for a Mont Pelerin meeting in Vina del Mar - where many MPS members gave speeches praising Pinochet & were given tours in military barracks.
December 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Friedman repeatedly asserts that he only visited Chile once. Reprinting this in 1998 means he is actively concealing the fact that he went back in 1981 for a Mont Pelerin meeting in Vina del Mar - where many MPS members gave speeches praising Pinochet & were given tours in military barracks.
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I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
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It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
The bloodthirsty imperialist brigands are on the prowl.
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The bloodthirsty imperialist brigands are on the prowl.
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Read what Starmer's biographer says here about no10's response to Trump's white supremacist National Security Strategy. I despair. We are being led through this unique moment of historical crisis by a bunch of witless dogmatists incapable of analytical thought.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be | Tom Baldwin
Leave support is falling. That’s an opportunity the PM should seize before pro-Europe challengers for the Labour leadership do, says Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer, The Biography
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December 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Read what Starmer's biographer says here about no10's response to Trump's white supremacist National Security Strategy. I despair. We are being led through this unique moment of historical crisis by a bunch of witless dogmatists incapable of analytical thought.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump has just added this vindictive plaque below Obama’s White House portrait and it bears all the childish pettiness and chaotic capitalisation of his 4am Truth Social rants.
December 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Trump has just added this vindictive plaque below Obama’s White House portrait and it bears all the childish pettiness and chaotic capitalisation of his 4am Truth Social rants.
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Well.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Well.
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This used to be Tulsi Gabbard.
December 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This used to be Tulsi Gabbard.