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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Marilyn Monroe, if still alive, would have been great as the heroine in an SPC film. There is a reason she could never have got the part. First person to guess gets an Aston Martin or a chocolate biscuit - but not both. 😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

JULIUS CAESAR, Julius Caesar, Squashed his nose in a lemon squeezer... But he still bought a copy of SPC! 😍 geni.us/StationPhilosophers website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site 🤣

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

GOVERNMENT OF ALBANIA: Fifty boxes of Station Philosopher’s Club ordered. To be placed on former dictator Enver Hoxha’s grave to make sure he doesn’t climb out. ( Well known fact: EH believed in vampires). 😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers. website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site 😮

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

SANS trumpet blowing can say SPC not a bad read. A dozen humorous memes posted. Result? With one kind exception, ZERO. Indifference total. Great demand in Bordeaux for grocery delivery by pushbike so am changing profession ... geni.us/StationPhilosophers. website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site

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The Station Philosophers' Club

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

WELL KNOWN FACT: Elon Musk is using copies of the Station Philosophers' Club to build his base on Mars. 😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site 😮

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

BOOK LAUNCH: Thanks to all who came to the launch for The Station Philosophers' Club in Bordeaux. Evening made by the unexpected appearance of Charles and Camilla who just 'dropped in' to say hello and have a glass of champagne. geni.us/StationPhilosophers roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site…

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

APRIL16th. This coming Wednesday. Got a free evening? Come along to Bradleys Bookshop, Bordeaux. Launch of SPC. 7.30pm to 9.00 pm. Music, bubbles, nibbles. All welcome

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

JOHN F KENNEDY: Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Perhaps buy a copy of the Station Philosophers’ Club? geni.us/StationPhilosophers website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site See you at Bradleys Bookshop, Bordeaux on the 16th( April). 7.30pm for launch?

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

BREAKING NEWS.... REVIEW JUST IN FROM JOHN MILTON: That guy Lost me completely. Paradise? You having a laugh? Tell him to take up painting. House not canvas. 😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

PATIENCE NEEDED! A You Tube video of the writer ( me) reading the opening pages of The Station Philosophers' Club. Click on roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site Follow the You Tube link. Recommend to others? And a customer review on Amazon/Good Reads? ( It's a love story to Bordeaux) Thanks!

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/03/2025

"Siri, explain to me 'failing upwards'." ~AA

Tice was educated at one of the country’s top boarding schools, Uppingham, in the East Midlands, so I ask what he got in his A-levels. “Not great.” An A in economics, an E in maths and an E in politics. He studied quantity surveying at Salford University and graduated with a 2:2. “Which I was disappointed with, because I really tried.”

Despite this setback, only four years later, aged 27, Tice was appointed CEO of the Sunley Group, the property company where he made his first millions. “One of the things I’m good at,” he says, “is making money.” But his personal website neglects to mention that the Sunley Group was his family’s firm, founded by his maternal grandfather, Bernard Sunley. Is Tice, I ask, a “top person”? Without hesitation: “Yes.”

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

PIERRE HURMIC, Ecological/Green Mayor of Bordeaux: ‘ You mean they cut down a tree to print that?’ 😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

LANDLORD OF ENGLISH PUB IN BORDEAUX: If that fellow comes in here one more time trying to flog his books I'll swear I’ll do him in and I don’t care if I swing for it.😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers Launch at Bradleys Bookshop, Bordeaux. April 16. 7.30pm. All welcome.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/03/2025

This kicks out any semblance of “method to the madness” on the extreme public pressure on Ukraine this last month. Russia isn’t willing even to insincerely play along to hand Trump a ‘win’. Which suggests they think he’ll hand them a bigger one anyway.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 13/03/2025

Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City to protest the arrest and detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration aims to deport over his pro-Palestinian activism reut.rs/3FDUel2

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Protesters occupy Trump Tower following arrest of Columbia student

Scores of people poured into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday to protest the arrest and detention of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration aims to deport over his pro-Palestinian activism.

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

KING CHARLES: Always carries a copy of The Station Philosophers’ Club under his crown.🤣 geni.us/StationPhilosophers (A love story to Bordeaux). NOTE: Official launch Bradleys Bookshop. Rue de la Merci. Bordeaux. April 16th. 7.30pm. All welcome.

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Visit home to the UK. Delighted to find that at my daughter's home in Wiltshire they still get a daily milk delivery. Thought milk deliveries died out a generation ago? Didn't Norman Wisdom star as a milkman in the 1965 film "The Early Bird?" 😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers #wiltshire #quirkyfashion

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Course he does. I often wonder how much of this clown's wannabe media mogul motivation comes from his son (Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall) being binned/resigning from - I kid you not, Mumford & Sons* - after he bigged up a fascist-adjacent fucknugget. *I think he played the banjo.

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

First REVIEW for The Station Philosophers' Club is in! It's from a Mr WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: 'A plague of pustules on this wretched scribe. Take away his plume and cast him into the foul waters of the Thames.' Wow, thanks Bill! 😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers ( A love story to Bordeaux)

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:

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David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I've been following Carole Cadwalladr's ( @carolecadwalla.bsky.social ) podcast from the start & it must listen to for anyone with any interest at all in functioning representational democracy around the world ( or anyone with the slightest taste for John le Carré or Len Deighton spy novels) #nzpol

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE: Merde. Les putain d’anglais sont pire que les Americans. ( Translates as: The bloody English are worse than the Americans). THE STATION PHILOSOPHERS’ CLUB A love story to Bordeaux AVAILABLE NOW! geni.us/StationPhilosophers #IndieAuthor #QuirkyFiction

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

END OF A TEACHERS DEMO IN BORDEAUX A FEW WEEKS AGO: ( Who despises the teachers despises the children) Teachers in France are badly paid - and there are not enough of them ... 😮 Meanwhile don't forget .... geni.us/StationPhilosophers #IndieBook #BookLover #Bookstagram #ReadersOfInstagram

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

How on earth do you satirise this unadulterated mince?

Daily Mail front page.
Kemi: It’s time to get off our knees and start fighting for Western values.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/02/2025

They literally just did a search for key words and then fired everyone. This is the laziest fucking coup in history. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The DOGE team identified 131 agencies within the federal government, then assigned one of at least 30 reviewers to examine all the agency’s sub-offices and employees. DOGE staffers searched each agency’s structure and personnel for the terms “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” “DEI” and “justice.” Reviews were often completed within a day or two, records show.

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

BORDEAUX: Opposite the Gare Saint-Jean. A misty morning a few days ago. Cafe du Levant. How lovely is that? geni.us/StationPhilosophers #bordeauxmaville #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #bookstagram #bookstagramuk #newyorktimes #guardian #bookclubfrance #bookclubamerica

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

BORDEAUX GARE SAINT-JEAN. Magnificent mural. Pre war rail map of SW France. Also routes of boats leaving for Canada, USA, Haiti, Uruguay, Morocco. Imperial ...but with a grandeur? 😮 www.amzn.co.uk/dp/106851880... #bordeauxmaville #expatsinfrance #expatsinbordeaux #newyorktimes #guardian #oprah

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The only thing you ever need to read about Cummings is the @vizcomic.bsky.social cartoon. Perfect encapsulation of his character and work.

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expatinpoland.bsky.social @expatinpoland.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So...they just have to unsee it? Like putting the toothpaste back in the tube. Info is already out there.

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방탄항상⁷💜🐳🪭 @always4bangtan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is a marathon, especially now. Keep doing what you're doing. Watch for the weak spots and push. Don't let them wear us down, and know you're not alone.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I heard some Herbert from the Spectator praising Trump for restoring ‘freedom of speech’ the other day. In fact, I’ve heard several British right-wing blowhards say the same. Are they utterly, utterly stupid or morally bankrupt or both?

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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A simple click to follow all the good people and organisations i recommend in my book All now on @bluesky Thanks @stefsimanowitz.bsky.social 💙💙💙 go.bsky.app/BKXnrpi

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Mike.Escapee @mikeescapee.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Happy now?

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Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

There was once a tin mine in the West of Cornwall called Ding Dong. Why not remain the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Ding Dong? Got to be better than The Gulf of America ... which sounds like a chain of petrol stations ... could even have the Straights of Ding Dong between China and Taiwan ...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Oleg Deripaska was named in Senate Intelligence report as working with Russian intelligence to subvert elections across the world. Aka Lord Mandelson’s friend. The fact that Starmer is so indebted to him that he gave him this gig is honestly alarming www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/fre...

standard.co.uk

Fresh evidence links Mandelson to oligarch

Peter Mandelson faced new questions today over his relationship with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The newly-appointed Business Secretary is at the centre of a row over a potential conflict of i...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I get that Peter Mandelson, like Trump, has extensive business experience with unsavoury Russians, so they stuff in common, but here’s a thought: why not appoint a career diplomat? Someone with actual diplomatic experience who could also avoid this charade?

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

So the secret is out. The ITV team that made Mr Bates vs the Post Office has been making a drama about the phone-hacking scandal. Featuring David Tennant as Nick Davies. And Mr Bates himself (aka Toby Jones) as me. An altogether less heroic role for Toby, but he’s brilliant as always

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Calvin Robinson has been defrocked by the Anglican Catholic church for emulating Musk's salute, one of several small churches he has bounced in and out of in the last 5 years

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Leftback @leftback.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It's the Daily Express front page where the headline fills 90% of the real estate, and a line that directly contradicts it is on paragraph 10 of Page 6, but that doesn't matter because you're not buying the express - nobody is - but you've seen the front page whilst paying for your petrol.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 23/01/2025

A tiny 2% wealth tax, on 20k people would raise £24 billion per year to spend on the things that urgently need fixing in our country. We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.

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