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Alistair Smith

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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@zaltzcricket.bsky.social thought you'd appreciate my daughter's sense of style
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What Labour should be thinking right now: “Huh; maybe spending 16 months endorsing Farage’s policies while horrifying and alienating the base was a bad idea…” What Labour WILL be thinking right now: “Hmm. The racists still don’t like us. We’re obviously not being racist ENOUGH. BE MORE RACIST.”
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Exceptional ❤️✊
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Mary Chumash @marychumash.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I just called the FBI hotline for terrorism tips and reported the United States government murdering people in Minneapolis. Every, single American should do this. 1 (866) 347-2423
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
So rare for there to be anything to celebrate when the world's worst people are in charge 👍
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
@ledbydonkeys.org doing real journalism as usual while the BBC continue to regularly platform Farage and other traitors
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenterIn a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is how to stand up to fascist cowards. With absolutely no fear and a fuck load of swearing. ✊
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
But no, we mustn't call it fascism.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I’ve been frustrated to see so much of the ongoing story about asylum seekers and the protests against them covered without hearing from those seeking asylum and now being met with hostility and hatred I set out to speak to those directly affected to find out about the impact this is having 👇
liverpoolecho.co.uk
We escaped war and torture but now we feel unsafe in Britain
Special report: Amid protests and rising aggression towards asylum seekers across the country, we spoke to those being targeted
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
People mostly like Orcas because of that film - Free Willy. But, as a marine biologist, let me tell you right now that Orcas are massive cunts.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
On Saturday
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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Hoo boy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Show this piece of shit that weirdos and fascists are not welcome here. Well, maybe not the weirdos bit - we have plenty of them to be fair. stoptrump.org.uk
stoptrump.org.uk
Stop Trump Coalition
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 18/04/2025
"It was at this point that the defendant's case collapsed"
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 16/04/2025
The year is 2038. Texas has just completed its third nuclear strike against Oklahoma. In Washington, Elon Musk's Legion Of Children is engaged in a last stand in the DOGE basement. In London, the Conservatives warn that an agreement to sell cheese to France is putting at risk a US trade deal.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The speed of America's descent is chilling. Fuck fascism.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 07/04/2025
Flashback to three months ago: Wall Street was excited because Trump would let say them say the word 'retard' www.ft.com/content/cf87...
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Failed state
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news. So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social ) If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
Front page of WSJ. Main headline says "Market Carnage Worsens." Right below it is headline saying "Trump Heads to Golf Club Amid Tariff Turmoil."
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Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Feel like, if a woman had wiped two trillion off the global stock market, in a day, she’d be forcibly removed
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cory Booker's filibuster lasted longer than the total amount of time Farage has spent in Clacton.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I just tuned into the Booker live feed and after 22 hours he's speaking rapidly, passionately, furiously, and completely coherently. By the way, last week, in impromptu remarks, Trump could not remember the word "criminal" and had to say "people of crime."
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In fifty years' time, people will read the history of these days and ask, "Why did nobody stop that cunt?"
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 25/03/2025
To be serious here for a moment: The most worrisome aspect of this incident isn't that they were conducting war planning on Signal, or even that they didn't clock who was in the group. It's the response. A government incapable of EVER admitting error and a Congress unwilling to force them to.
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Aquilino A. Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Does this apply if you’re a MAGA and the January 6 rioters who assaulted me and my colleagues?
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We shall postpone fighting on the beaches, we shall keep an eye on the landing grounds, we encourage everyone else, should the right circumstances come, to fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall eventually retreat to the hills; we shall never explicitly surrender.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
They call us Marxist because they don’t know what a Marxist is. We call them fascists because we *do* know what a fascist is.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Opinion | I am a Republican because I believe in traditional family values. Here's why I support a government run by two men who between them have 19 children by 8 different women.
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
How do you like this one in North London @alexwinter.com ? #teslatakedown
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten. A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders. A historic disgrace.
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/02/2025
Still internalising the Vance Munich speech. A sitting Vice President goes to Europe, barely says a word about the despotic murderous regime which has invaded its neighbour, and instead lectures his allies about freedom of speech. It’d be funny if it weren’t so serious.
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/02/2025
🤦‍♂️ So Labour are making ads boasting about deportations, with Reform-style branding. Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates? If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS
We need safe and legal routes, not boasts about which party can be the cruellest.

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ


With screenshot of Labour social media advert that reads:
BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS
LABOUR HITS LABOUR HITS 5 YEAR HIGH IN MIGRANT REMOVALS
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Oh yeah? If you see it, be sure to point it out to us won't you? The desperate claims of "masculinity" by these degenerates is nauseating. What a bellend.
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Alistair Smith @redsunblues.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Yep
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Wrote this in another place on 6 November and thought it worth sharing here today. Just a note to remember that fascists are scared of you.
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