Andy Smart
@andysmart1948.bsky.social
Ex (not very good) youth worker and (slightly more useful) manager of youth workers. Edinburgh & SW France. Opinionated.
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The dirty secret of 9/11 for the UK is that its intelligence and ‘security’ agencies collaborated with Islamist extremist/terrorist groups both before and after the attacks. by @markcurtis30(Mark Cur...
The dirty secret of 9/11 for the UK is that its intelligence and ‘security’ agencies collaborated with Islamist extremist/terrorist groups both before and after the attacks. Here's a thread on some ...
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Essential read from Robin McAlpine. www.thenational.scot/politics/265...
Poor SNP policy choices are holding back the cause for Scottish independence
IN a couple of years from now a policy the Scottish Government is about to introduce will be assessed and will not only have failed but might very…
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And we're all really upset that our donors won't let us do anything about it. Next Why we have to have more nukes and aircraft carriers!
I'm not entirely comfortable with companies or states taxing stupidity - even if it's entirely voluntary. However, I think it could be argued that the world is facing more urgent problems right now.
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 5d agoIn the US, the iPhone Duo costs $1999. Based on the exchange rate, that should be $2760 CAD. But Apple is charging $2999 CAD in Canada, meaning Canadians are paying almost 10% more than Americans for the folding iPhone. That comes just after it changed the name of Lake Ontario on Apple Maps.
4 Tories pleading guilty is to be welcomed. Can we assume they are not from the Johnson/Truss wing of the party? www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Tory campaign chief and MP candidate wife admit cheating with election bets
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It's or just the countryside and the rivers and the sea. Look at the Stock Exchange, Inland Revenue and Companies House. We need proper regulation - not new laws or sound bites but the staffing, management and democratic oversight to make work. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Worcestershire field investigated over medical waste dumping claims
The Environment Agency is leading an investigation into the site off Mill Lane, near Wadborough.
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The new American oligarchs have completed the multigenerational project of reversing all the gains of the 20th century labor movement finance.yahoo.com/news/super-r...
Super rich’s wealth concentration surpasses Gilded Age levels
America's richest of the rich just passed the Rockefeller-Carnegie cohort in wealth concentration, according to Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman.
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Palantir is a digital weapons manufacturer that builds A.I.-powered tools for large-scale data collection and mass surveillance. They have no place in our society! Join our People vs. Palantir: Global Week of Action kickoff call on Sept 28: bit.ly/peoplevspalantir
'Journalists' on the Guardian, the BBC and elsewhere need to know that calling the paramilitary wing of the New Right 'protesters' may not be enough! You too could still be on the list with Muslims, Jews, Black, Gay, Lesbian and disabled people, and leftists. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Hundreds of far-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival
Influencer livestreams event calling for men to travel to port to block coaches carrying asylum seekers from leaving
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"Hundreds of far-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival" One of the things about fascism is that it is always better to catch it early, before it grows and spreads.
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Is it still US policy that people subject to terrorist attacks have a right, not just to self-defence, but to destroy the authors of such attacks? archive.ph/2026.09.05-1...
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How would you feel about Irish troops safeguarding Israel's scorched earth land grab in Lebanon? Under the cursed flag 🇪🇺 of the same EU that backed Israel's genocide? Would you be happy about that? Because that's what our government wants to do after it repeals the Triple Lock.
The fascist regime in Israel murders aid workers because they can. They can because the US & UK shield them from consequences. Together, they condemn the people of Israel to insecurity and parish status for generations to come. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic
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"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
This week Burnham switches to support the ultra-rich buying control of Parliament and Authoritarianism at the top of the SNP Next week Water somewhat damp? www.thenational.scot/news/2650113...
SNP members' fury as party 'blocks independence strategy debate at conference'
THE SNP leadership has been accused of “shutting down debate” after multiple draft resolutions on the party's future independence strategy…
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The sun came up this morning. Also, Labour dumped a progressive, principled policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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I hope the wise Mr Blair will tell us all more about how Burnham should run the country. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Taxpayers will foot bill for shortfall on PFI hospital upgrades
Tens of millions of pounds will be needed to bring the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh up to scratch when it transfers to public ownership next year.
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Hugely important. The end of the EU as any kind of brake of the lurch to hard right in countries across Europe? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How the far right is tightening its grip over the EU – from the inside | Alberto Alemanno
The centrist coalition that traditionally shaped EU laws is now colluding with MEPs from the AfD and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, says academic Alberto Alemanno
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It's possible that some of the people who didn't survive the Middle Passage (and were thrown overboard) lied about their age, their strength, their health. If so, this might not be most important truth about the slave trade, exploitation or Cambridge University.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The steam for the catapults will come from Trump's ears, at a cost of $5M per launch.
Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets
President has suggested steam catapults every year since 2017, saying digital systems are too ‘complicated’
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🗞️ Outside Dublin, only one county had homes to rent within HAP limits in June. We cannot continue to pour €1 billion of public money every year into the pockets of private landlords through failing schemes like HAP and RAS. This is the "madness of the market" in action. We need a radical shift NOW
Outside Dublin, only one county had homes to rent within HAP limits in June
Just 20 rental properties nationwide were available within HAP limits, despite more than 1,300 being listed overall.
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Dutch doctors and activists displayed 1,400 pairs of white shoes in a square in the Netherlands in memory of fallen healthcare workers in Gaza. This is heartbreaking.
This NOT a story about carbon v alternatives But Will there be ANY kind of transition or just a fire sale! Without regulation, short term profit sucks investment from production into speculation in commodities, currencies and 'futures'. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2642526...
BP puts its North Sea business up for sale after 60 years of production
The energy giant said the decision to market the business for a potential sale forms part of its strategy to slim down the group by selling off…
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