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Alan C. Smith

@algingersmith.bsky.social
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Another ape in the human zoo. #Politics #Radio4 #TheArchers #ClimateCrisis #Gardening #Comics #Film #MentalHealth

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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Simon Jack too timid to accuse Tice of the discourse coarsening petrol he throws on the fire every day. Ridiculous interview, the man is part of the cause of increase insecurity for MPs. And Today treat him like a victim. 🙄 #r4today
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elliott is literally a creature of the Kochs and Big Oil ffs. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Will they talk about the biological fact of plunging sperm counts. And the ever increasing fertility problems of men and women. Doesn't look like it. Societal issues aren't the whole story. #r4today www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
theguardian.com
‘Spermageddon’: is the world facing a male reproductive crisis?
Reports of falling sperm counts and testosterone levels have fuelled fears over chemicals, pollution and modern lifestyles. But how much do scientists agree on what is affecting male fertility?
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
But they're trained on the written word, aren't they? Do they train them on actual human behaviour, speech and body language at all? #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Meanwhile...the chances of climate change eliminating civilisation is a lot higher than 10%. #wato #climatecrisis
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oh ffs. You might as well ask the cat. #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
On the plus side, the sooner AI destroys us all the sooner the planet can start to recover from us. #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And what's the Reform story of this country. One of huge victimhood, nostalgia and wish fulfilment. Oh and as much corruption as you can handle. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
£72 million in donations is 'democracy' is it? #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Safer? Fuck no. Climate change alone is going to end us. If other things don't first. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Xenophobia is the oxygen of the Far Right. Which the Tories and Reform both are. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Right and Far Right can only lie on this subject. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Are they fighting age men? Pass the bucket. It's. Not. Illegal. To. Seek. Asylum. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Boats are down 40%. Go away go away go away. The last govt that YOU were part of Danny. Hypocrisy visible from space. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh yeah the left would turn up dressed in black in balaclavas. 🙄 The endless both-sidesism is really tedious. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The scandal of the Tory Brexit open borders. That you voted for Danny. Go away. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sorry was austerity responsible? Fuck off. Tripling national debt. Decimating public services. Where did all the money go. Fuck your notion of responsibility. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Life on benefits is fucking miserable. Few would choose it. It's the (well one of their many) great lie of the Right. That millions are living it up. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kruger just plain lying about how easy it is to claim benefits for mental health reasons. I can tell you from personal experience, this is utter bullshit. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
STILL no one asking WHY so many more people are physically and mentally struggling. 🙄 'Signed off for life' utter bollocks. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tories need to just shut up for 10 years while the adults try and clear up their mess, their purposeful destruction of the public realm, including the armed forces. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'Welfare' spending is flat as a percentage of GDP. Go away. The lie continues. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's a false choice. A typical right wing straw man false oppositions argument between supporting the most disadvantaged and well...pick an issue. #bbcaq
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Concrete is one of the most under-appreciated comics of its era--inventive, funny, endearing, philosophical. With actual masterful cartooning. It deserves to be widely read and discussed.
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'All my friends are racists too.' #wato
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Scotland is not 'the North.' The North means the North of England. Scotland is Scotland. Um with its own government. Not that hard to understand is it.. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yeah lets not mention the Windscale disaster eh? That resulted in the change of name to Sellafield. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
More David hypocrisy. YOUR govt tripled debt. Never mind the triple lock.. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Lets wheel this out again...🙄 #bbcaq x.com/resfoundatio...
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Resolution Foundation (@resfoundation) on X
Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actual...
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
David...is a hypocrite. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014. Tories kept cutting UK defence spending for 10 years. Go away. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Alex playing Reform spokesperson. And suggesting high polling excuses criminality. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A question framed as Farage would like. 🙄 #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
James Orr. Platformed several times by the BBC. Question Time. Moral Maze. Politics Live. They never learn. #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now its fucking GOVE. You're really spoiling us today. 🤦‍♂️ #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Tories and Reform are both Oil funded and spout their lines all the time. Political funding in the UK is totally rotten and needs massive reform. #reform #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Freudian slip from Sarah. It is all UKIP in another form.. #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'He knows what's gone on' He was in the bloody video! These fucking people.. #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Andrew Griffith as Shadow Chancellor. 😂😂😂😂 Hilarious. Her lack of judgement continues. #toryreshuffle #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hannah-Mary is 36. Imagine growing up with climate change and yet going to work for an oil company. As a scientist. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The solution is batteries. Duh. #bbcaq www.economist.com/united-state...
economist.com
California has got really good at building giant batteries
At peak times they provide 30% of the state’s electricity
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Grangemouth closed for reasons. It was not sustainable. #bbcaq
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The delusions of readiness for flooding..🙄 We're still BUILDING in flood plains ffs. #r4today #floodrisk www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
One in nine new homes in England built in areas of flood risk, study shows
Figures from Aviva also show number of homes being built in risky areas is on the rise
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
More tree bad news. #wato www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather
Woodland Trust says trees struggling in drought stress, with older ‘survivors’ disproportionately affected
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Extreme heat stressed trees are hilarious apparently. Why do so many R4 presenters treat climate in such a trivial way. #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Individualistic societies are fundamentally unsuited to the collective action required against climate change. As the last few decades have proved. Too little, far far too late. #wato #climatecrisis
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Anyone can dig a hole? Not a lot of use if it's not connected to anything though, is it? 🤦 Locating them and connecting them where they're needed is less easy. Who is this eejit chucking out easy answers to difficult questions. #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The reservoirs we do have are all down. Rainfall is down. Stop assuming we'll get all the water we need in the winter. Clueless. #wato
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Alan C. Smith @algingersmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
People are hypocrits. Spend all their money online then complain about degraded local high streets. #bbcaq
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