Andy Smart
@andysmart1948.bsky.social
Ex (not very good) youth worker and (slightly more useful) manager of youth workers.
Edinburgh & SW France. Opinionated.
Edinburgh & SW France. Opinionated.
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Some 83 per cent of those with more than £1 million in cash savings alone do not consider themselves rich, according to The Times Wealth Survey, published this week.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Some 83 per cent of those with more than £1 million in cash savings alone do not consider themselves rich, according to The Times Wealth Survey, published this week.
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Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap
She thinks we're idiots
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Yesterday an NGO boss told me that all funders now use "AI" to assess bids.
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yesterday an NGO boss told me that all funders now use "AI" to assess bids.
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
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Of course, the Government's response to my petition asking for a full transparency review of UK free zones was always going to be one of immense gaslighting.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
open.substack.com/pub/european...
EXPOSED: The Government’s Freeport Con Trick – A Forensic Takedown of Their Insulting Response
The government just responded to my petition about Industrial Strategy Zones. What they said was a masterclass in gaslighting.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Of course, the Government's response to my petition asking for a full transparency review of UK free zones was always going to be one of immense gaslighting.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
open.substack.com/pub/european...
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
So the problem is MOD officials (and not defence contractors being able to decide what equipment the Armed Forces need and then dictate press releases)? That's a relief!
www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
Minister puts blame on MOD officials over assurances he gave on safety of Ajax
Luke Pollard says he was given reassurances in writing that the Army's new armoured fighting vehicle was safe for personnel to operate
www.forcesnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So the problem is MOD officials (and not defence contractors being able to decide what equipment the Armed Forces need and then dictate press releases)? That's a relief!
www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
www.forcesnews.com/services/arm...
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“I am delighted that my son, as well as my daughter, will now be afforded equal protection against catching and spreading the virus that killed the grandmother they never got to meet.”
More good news about the HPV vaccine.
open.substack.com/pub/kityates...
More good news about the HPV vaccine.
open.substack.com/pub/kityates...
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“I am delighted that my son, as well as my daughter, will now be afforded equal protection against catching and spreading the virus that killed the grandmother they never got to meet.”
More good news about the HPV vaccine.
open.substack.com/pub/kityates...
More good news about the HPV vaccine.
open.substack.com/pub/kityates...
If Netanyahu can decide which UK judges hear which cases, shouldn't our media be asking what there is in the Mossad/Epstein/Maxwell video library that gives him that power?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
If Netanyahu can decide which UK judges hear which cases, shouldn't our media be asking what there is in the Mossad/Epstein/Maxwell video library that gives him that power?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK govt can save over £20bn a year by ending payment of interest on commercial banks’ central bank reserves.
Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.
Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
UK can find better uses of £20bn+.
Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.
Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
UK can find better uses of £20bn+.
This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget
The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution
leftfootforward.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
UK govt can save over £20bn a year by ending payment of interest on commercial banks’ central bank reserves.
Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.
Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
UK can find better uses of £20bn+.
Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.
Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.
UK can find better uses of £20bn+.
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Successive UK govts have failed to achieve sustainable economic growth because of:
Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment
When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment
When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
House of Lords Economy Debate 13 Nov 2025
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Successive UK govts have failed to achieve sustainable economic growth because of:
Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment
When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
Impoverishing the masses
Regressive taxation
Poor infrastructure
Unchecked profiteering
Low investment in productive assets
Neutering public investment
When will govts change course?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87f2...
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Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”
Making Germany Great Again?
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American billionaires are buying so many superyachts that Lürssen, one of the world’s largest yacht builders, has not only opened a swanky new office in Fort Lauderdale but is also offering tax-free f...
luxurylaunches.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Making Germany Great Again?
luxurylaunches.com/transport/lu...
luxurylaunches.com/transport/lu...
"But but this is the only way to build new schools"
Can we fight our way out of Thatcher's handbag and rethink "National Debt" and "Deficit" from the beginning again?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Can we fight our way out of Thatcher's handbag and rethink "National Debt" and "Deficit" from the beginning again?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Repairs left unfinished as firm behind huge schools PFI contract goes into liquidation
The news heightens concerns that 88 schools in Stoke-on-Trent could be left with unfinished work.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"But but this is the only way to build new schools"
Can we fight our way out of Thatcher's handbag and rethink "National Debt" and "Deficit" from the beginning again?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Can we fight our way out of Thatcher's handbag and rethink "National Debt" and "Deficit" from the beginning again?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump is unable to offer any further help. He has been told that assisting in fraud by people outside his family would be illegal Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Trump is unable to offer any further help. He has been told that assisting in fraud by people outside his family would be illegal Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.”
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.
Why is nobody celebrating the Home Secretary's smooth integration into a party that that spent decades kicking down ladders it has just climbed? Council housing and State funded Higher Education are just two outstanding examples.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments
Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Why is nobody celebrating the Home Secretary's smooth integration into a party that that spent decades kicking down ladders it has just climbed? Council housing and State funded Higher Education are just two outstanding examples.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I just want a government that is morally *better* than this.
People arriving here by small boat are desperate, often traumatised. Latest figures are 68% of boat arrivals granted asylum (see link)
The idea of the govt stripping people of their valuables & then hawking it off literally makes me sick to my stomach
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
The idea of the govt stripping people of their valuables & then hawking it off literally makes me sick to my stomach
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I just want a government that is morally *better* than this.
Social media is sometimes not good at subtly or nuance, so
Arieh Kovler is referencing some of the blood chilling details of the Holocaust and the Nazi concentration camps.
Arieh Kovler is referencing some of the blood chilling details of the Holocaust and the Nazi concentration camps.
Next up: gold teeth. Long hair sold for wigs. Maybe they can be forced to donate blood...
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Social media is sometimes not good at subtly or nuance, so
Arieh Kovler is referencing some of the blood chilling details of the Holocaust and the Nazi concentration camps.
Arieh Kovler is referencing some of the blood chilling details of the Holocaust and the Nazi concentration camps.
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Next up: gold teeth. Long hair sold for wigs. Maybe they can be forced to donate blood...
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Next up: gold teeth. Long hair sold for wigs. Maybe they can be forced to donate blood...
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Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want