Harry Smart
@munross.bsky.social
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Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
#Istanbul, Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC.
Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
#Istanbul, Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC.
Pinned
Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Donnarumma & Guardiola
Rule 12: Cautionable Offences: Unsporting Behaviour
"attempts to deceive the referee e.g. by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled (simulation)"
Tell me how the fake injury / time out doesn't fit this.
#LUFC #FA #MOTD
@fwaofficial.bsky.social
Rule 12: Cautionable Offences: Unsporting Behaviour
"attempts to deceive the referee e.g. by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled (simulation)"
Tell me how the fake injury / time out doesn't fit this.
#LUFC #FA #MOTD
@fwaofficial.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Donnarumma & Guardiola
Rule 12: Cautionable Offences: Unsporting Behaviour
"attempts to deceive the referee e.g. by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled (simulation)"
Tell me how the fake injury / time out doesn't fit this.
#LUFC #FA #MOTD
@fwaofficial.bsky.social
Rule 12: Cautionable Offences: Unsporting Behaviour
"attempts to deceive the referee e.g. by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled (simulation)"
Tell me how the fake injury / time out doesn't fit this.
#LUFC #FA #MOTD
@fwaofficial.bsky.social
something has to be done about this or we're in a situation where a team can call a time out whenever they want. #LUFC
58 - Donnarumma goes down and the City team sprint to the touchline to get tactical instructions.
Not sure I've ever seen a more obviously cynical ploy but not sure the referee can do much about it. A compliment to Leeds' second half so far, if anything.
2-1
#lufc
Not sure I've ever seen a more obviously cynical ploy but not sure the referee can do much about it. A compliment to Leeds' second half so far, if anything.
2-1
#lufc
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
something has to be done about this or we're in a situation where a team can call a time out whenever they want. #LUFC
Dorigo comments that we can now pressurise the City side and I'm stuck with the mental image of Ampadu with a bicycle pump trying to inflate Haaland. #LUFC
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Dorigo comments that we can now pressurise the City side and I'm stuck with the mental image of Ampadu with a bicycle pump trying to inflate Haaland. #LUFC
On authoritarianism in the UK.
"More people now believe Britain needs a strong leader willing to break the rules. 43% agreed, while 31% disagreed. Last year, 39% agreed, and an equal proportion disagreed."
38% of Labour voters agreed.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-rep...
"More people now believe Britain needs a strong leader willing to break the rules. 43% agreed, while 31% disagreed. Last year, 39% agreed, and an equal proportion disagreed."
38% of Labour voters agreed.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-rep...
Public attitudes 2025
Our research looks at public attitudes towards elections and democracy in the UK. We conducted our latest study in December 2024
www.electoralcommission.org.uk
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
On authoritarianism in the UK.
"More people now believe Britain needs a strong leader willing to break the rules. 43% agreed, while 31% disagreed. Last year, 39% agreed, and an equal proportion disagreed."
38% of Labour voters agreed.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-rep...
"More people now believe Britain needs a strong leader willing to break the rules. 43% agreed, while 31% disagreed. Last year, 39% agreed, and an equal proportion disagreed."
38% of Labour voters agreed.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-rep...
Introduce yourself with five gigs you've seen
Leonard Cohen
Richard Hawley
Van Morrison
Half Man Half Biscuit
The Corries
Leonard Cohen
Richard Hawley
Van Morrison
Half Man Half Biscuit
The Corries
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge tour at the Skydome
Leonard Cohen - Hummingbird Centre
The Cure - Molson Amphitheatre/Bud Stage (twice, 25 years apart)
Springsteen - Hope Estate Winery
Tanya Tagak and Owen Pallett - Massey Hall
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge tour at the Skydome
Leonard Cohen - Hummingbird Centre
The Cure - Molson Amphitheatre/Bud Stage (twice, 25 years apart)
Springsteen - Hope Estate Winery
Tanya Tagak and Owen Pallett - Massey Hall
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Metallica
Orbital
Rem
Paul Oakenfold
Aurora
Metallica
Orbital
Rem
Paul Oakenfold
Aurora
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Introduce yourself with five gigs you've seen
Leonard Cohen
Richard Hawley
Van Morrison
Half Man Half Biscuit
The Corries
Leonard Cohen
Richard Hawley
Van Morrison
Half Man Half Biscuit
The Corries
Reposted by Harry Smart
I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?
That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
on UK Corruption, from @equalitytrust.bsky.social
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November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
on UK Corruption, from @equalitytrust.bsky.social
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I thought I was joking .. #OBR
no ... we should be told that the future announcement about the budget is going to happen after the budget *preview*.
Have we not yet reachced the theoretical limits to how many pre-announcements, or announcements of coming pre-announcements can be made?
Have we not yet reachced the theoretical limits to how many pre-announcements, or announcements of coming pre-announcements can be made?
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I thought I was joking .. #OBR
What the hell has Piers Morgan to offer on the subject of the war in Ukraine? #Newsnight
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
What the hell has Piers Morgan to offer on the subject of the war in Ukraine? #Newsnight
While we decry the US trying to impose the Witkoff-Kremlin plan on Ukraine, it's worth noting the continuing impact of Obama's appeasement of Putin when he invaded the Crimea.
This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
archive.is/202503021317...
This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
archive.is/202503021317...
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
While we decry the US trying to impose the Witkoff-Kremlin plan on Ukraine, it's worth noting the continuing impact of Obama's appeasement of Putin when he invaded the Crimea.
This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
archive.is/202503021317...
This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
archive.is/202503021317...
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Mahmood is in the find out phase, having been suckered by Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies
Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Mahmood is in the find out phase, having been suckered by Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK to World.
This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us.
The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.
This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us.
The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.
Trump: "They had restrictions on water. It comes down from heaven. You want to wash your hands, or like me, you wash your hair. I lather up. There's no water. I won't mention the 3rd item in the bc I always get criticized. If you don't know what I'm talking about you shouldn't be owning a McDonalds"
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
UK to World.
This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us.
The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.
This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us.
The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.
If as Labour leader you wanted someone to front up a vicious immigration policy designed solely to appease traditional Labour voters polling as prospective Reform voters ...
you'd choose a daughter of immigrants
Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?
you'd choose a daughter of immigrants
Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
If as Labour leader you wanted someone to front up a vicious immigration policy designed solely to appease traditional Labour voters polling as prospective Reform voters ...
you'd choose a daughter of immigrants
Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?
you'd choose a daughter of immigrants
Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?
surely #Newsnight can challlenge this categorisation of 'illegal' immigration as contrary to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.
Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
surely #Newsnight can challlenge this categorisation of 'illegal' immigration as contrary to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.
Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.
"People have cars, people have e-bikes. Those are assets they should contribute to the cost of benefits."
Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables.
Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes.
#realitydisconnect
Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables.
Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes.
#realitydisconnect
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"People have cars, people have e-bikes. Those are assets they should contribute to the cost of benefits."
Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables.
Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes.
#realitydisconnect
Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables.
Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes.
#realitydisconnect
Mahmood's hateful rhetoric is immoral, but that will count for nothing now that Starmer has remade Labour in his own image.
In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇
In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇
What Starmer and Mahmood are doing is saying things that will alienate much of the electoral base they rely on to stay afloat while not going far enough to keep right wing voters happy through policies that will fall apart on first contact with reality.
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Mahmood's hateful rhetoric is immoral, but that will count for nothing now that Starmer has remade Labour in his own image.
In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇
In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇
looking towards the Sea of Marmara, over backstreet rooftops, #Istanbul #streetphotography #panorama
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
looking towards the Sea of Marmara, over backstreet rooftops, #Istanbul #streetphotography #panorama
beautiful writing from @timothysnyder.bsky.social .. a morning run with his daughter; a short story.
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Running together
A Winter Tale
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November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
beautiful writing from @timothysnyder.bsky.social .. a morning run with his daughter; a short story.
snyder.substack.com/p/running-to...
snyder.substack.com/p/running-to...
Robert Jenrick's Shabana Mahmood impersonation now difficult to distinguish from Shabana Mahmood's Robert Jenrick impersonation.
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Robert Jenrick's Shabana Mahmood impersonation now difficult to distinguish from Shabana Mahmood's Robert Jenrick impersonation.