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Kevin Smith

@kevinjgsmith.bsky.social
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I train and fix up progressive voices for UK TV and radio. Broadcast media nerd. Into politics, climate & energy, social justice issues, #lgbtqia, disco history, trouble making, media stuff, he/him

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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hurrah for public health interventions! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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HPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great explanation in @bigissue.com of the political uprising happening in Spain around the housing crisis and the eviction of an 87 year old woman in Madrid. www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
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What the eviction of Maricarmen, 87, says about housing in 2026
There has been outrage in Spain following the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen. A rent campaigner reveals why it has sparked protests.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you want a Sunday morning boost of hope and inspiration, check out what’s happening in Madrid right now. Main plaza occupied in solidarity with 87 yo woman evicted and the housing crisis www.instagram.com/inquilinato_...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 9 months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Secured millions in worker restitution from DoorDash and UberEats -Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program -Cracked down on bad landlords -Balanced NYC's budget without cutting major social services This is what leadership looks like.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So much solidarity for everyone who has endured police violence in Madrid today attempting to resist the eviction of 87 year old Maricarmen today www.elsaltodiario.com/madrid/pesar...
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La Policía ejecuta con violencia el desalojo de Maricarmen, la vecina de 87 años del distito de Retiro
Tras una madrugada al raso y luego plantando un muro humano en la puerta del bloque de Maricarmen, esta vez las vecinas no pudieron evitar el desahucio de Maricarmen, una octogenaria que desde hoy se ...
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Pandering to the far right and normalising racism and xenophobia? ❌ Offering tangible changes that directly affect ordinary Germans? ✅ By @janeichhorn.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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AfD is rising, but it can still be stopped
The German mainstream still has a window of opportunity to act and reverse a dangerous trend to the far right.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
euronews.com
Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"This is why loss and damage finance is not charity – it is an obligation to people already paying the price." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis | Sunil Acharya
Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy states, says Kathmandu-based climate policy ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's hard to imagine a world with no queerness at all in it. I never realised it was a 'lack' when i was growing up as I didn't even know what it was. And then I saw Rocky Horror at an early age and Tim Curry will always have a big place in my heart for blowing my impressionable young mind. ❤️🌭💋
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I think @neonuk.bsky.social have been pitching some folk who fit this description over the summer - worth asking them
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sharing to counterbalance the outrageous hit pieces against rewilding in the wake of the wildfires www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@robtelneajai.bsky.social hello - trying to get hold of you about an al jazeera interview tomorrow on US deportation scheme to Liberia - would it be possible to message me with a number? Loren Landau suggested you would be a good person
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Any inconvenience or expense that people have experienced as a result of the ULEZ expansion scheme was for the sake of radically improving the lung health of children in London - and totally worth it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Let me fix that headline for you, BBC News: "Reform UK Tries to get Humiliating Clacton By-Election Off The Front Page With Outrageous, Uncosted Policy Ragebait"
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Daily Mail is gaslighting farmers, care home workers, fire fighters, parents of small children, healthcare professionals, anyone who has hide to work outside....
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Do I know any parents of kids who sat GCSEs in very difficult conditions during one of the heatwaves this year who might be able to speak about it - either the parents of (with proper consent and support) the kids?
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I ❤️ public health programmes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
England set to eliminate hepatitis C
England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Megalomaniac billionaire declares litigation war on the NHS. We all lose out with this.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In this piece just published in @bigissue.com, a woman who was evacuated from her home in Bordeaux in the face of the wildfires is drawing the links with record oil profits and calling for them to foot the bill for damages www.bigissue.com/opinion/flee...
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I spent the weekend fleeing wildfires. It makes me feel rage
Soraya Fettih was forced to flee her home near Bordeaux because of the wildfires. She writes of the anger she feels as people lose their homes as the temperatures get hotter while fossil fuel companie...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Burning fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent and more intense. Of course those who have made record profits causing the problem should pick up the bill.
Zack Polanski calls for higher taxes on oil and gas profits to fund wildfire prevention
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A reminder to all as awful single sex spaces guidance comes into force that our trans family is facing aggressive pushback in this country.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Source: www.newstatesman.com/environment/...
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Heatwaves make a majority of Brits more fearful for the future
Even a third of Reform voters say recent temperatures make them more anxious about climate change
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
57% of Labour voters, 53% of Conservative voters and even 45% of Reform voters say heatwaves make them more fearful for the future. The Telegraph is widely out of step with the UK public and cementing its reputation as the UK media equivalent of the 'odd, ranty uncle' at Christmas dinner.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
2026 and we are STILL having to endure this crass stupidity.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
With respect to the sadly deceased Bill Oddie, my all time favourite misheard lyrics, to the tune of Madonna's Erotica... "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, Rub your hands all over my body."
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As we come to the end of the latest burst of warm weather what do Britons think about heatwaves? Asked at the end of the June heatwaves and climate, people's unsurprising top reaction was 'Hot' but that was followed by unbeatable, uncomfortable, worried, concerned and exhausted
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There's a slew of nasty Pride hit pieces like this popping up this week. The right wants to divide our community and spread hate. Trans people are at the core of our queer family.
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Wolfgang Cramer @cramer-bondeau.fr · 25/06/2026
A good conversation I had this week with Owen Jones from the UK, about the ongoing heatwave www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikvf... @owenjones.bsky.social
screenshot from the conversation with Owen Jones
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is terrifying in the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The attacks on Miliband from unions are misguided and unhelpful. His agenda is not anti-worker or anti-jobs. The climate transition is not optional. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Progressive economists reject Unite leader’s criticism of Ed Miliband
Sharon Graham is urged to withdraw her claim that the energy secretary would cost jobs if he became chancellor
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’m not sure exactly when it happened but at some point political reporting ceased to be about covering politicians and their ideas and turned into a sort of daily horoscope on what ‘the markets’ think about absolutely every single political decision
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
London’s lungs are healing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
Imperial College scientists analysed health records before and after introduction of air pollution reduction zones
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A regular reminder that they are coming for us.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Turns out it was much easier than we all thought!
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Well done all the gays that voted Reform... turkeys, Christmas etc #pride metro.co.uk/2026/06/04/l...
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London's only Reform council cancels Pride flag ceremony
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Farage knew exactly what he was doing yesterday. June hit and the far-right needed an excuse to restart another summer of riots and violence that is becoming regular for the UK. Another grieving family manipulated. Absolutely disgusting.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Solidarity forever!
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Solidarity with @misanharriman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Have no doubt: the campaign to sack Misan Harriman is part of an assault on black figures in public life | Afua Hirsch
The move against the boss of London’s Southbank Centre sends a forbidding message about who is and isn’t seen as fit to lead in UK culture, says writer Afua Hirsch
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Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Ofcom has quietly opened an investigation six months after the programme aired. In that time, GB News’s social media clips of Trump claiming climate change is a ‘hoax’ have clocked up over a hundred thousand engagements online" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Ofcom to investigate GB News over second airing of Trump interview
Regulator initially declined to investigate but now says it is looking into repeat broadcast from day after first showing
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’ve voted for hope and the @greenparty.org.uk - how about you?
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