Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I bow to no one in my admiration of James O'Brien as a Radio Host. He is one of the few voices of sanity on the airwaves today. However if Sir James ( as we will certainly have to call him soon ) has read all seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time, twice, I will eat my hat. 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2025He's not got full measure on his Guinness. Serve that in a pub in a Dublin ... 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Imagine how it feels to follow Plymouth Argyle. It's all about the $$$$$ ..... 010 1
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Marilyn 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 010 1
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2025JULIUS 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 🤣 010 1
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2025There is something wonderfully mad about this Easter message from Trump. Where have I read similar parodies? Private Eye? Some of Martin Amis's whackier stuff? Perhaps the sort of item the official North Korean news agency might put out? You want to laugh, but this is from POTUS ... 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Thankyou Guy Shrubsole for this information 010 1
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2025You do wonder who has the problem here ... 010 1
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I never liked prawn cocktail crisps. I think they should send either salt and vinegar or bacon 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2025GOVERNMENT 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 😮 010 1
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 20/04/2025SANS 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.sitegeni.usThe Station Philosophers' ClubGet it now: 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Old tools of the trade simply don't work ... we is in a new world .... 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 20/04/2025WELL 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 😮 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Meriadeck Library, Bordeaux. Good Anglo section. Plus daily NYT, 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2025BOOK 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… 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 14/04/2025APRIL16th. 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 010 1
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Will this young lady ( when she is an old lady) come to regret this cruel photo? 130 3
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025JOHN 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? 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2025BREAKING 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 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025If I had any money I would buy some of their shares .... 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025PATIENCE 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! 000 0
Reposted by Rorie Smith. Writer. Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/03/2025"Siri, explain to me 'failing upwards'." ~AA 56441103 441
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I also went to Uppingham where I was, like Tice, thick as pigshit. But at least I did not become a right wing dingbat ... now live in France, walk in Spain and write novels with Bordeaux as a setting. More useful, less harmful? geni.us/StationPhilosophers. website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.sitegeni.usThe Station Philosophers' ClubGet it now: 010 1
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 24/03/2025PIERRE HURMIC, Ecological/Green Mayor of Bordeaux: ‘ You mean they cut down a tree to print that?’ 😮 geni.us/StationPhilosophers website: roriesmithbooks.my.canva.site 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2025With Kirsty Macoll singing in the background ... 010 1
Reposted by Rorie Smith. Writer. Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This 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." 26703609914032 36.1K
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 16/03/2025LANDLORD 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. 000 0
Reposted by Rorie Smith. Writer. James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/03/2025This 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. 23411 34
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I live in Bordeaux. For a variety of reasons the wine growers in this area are already struggling. Acres of vines being ploughed up. While this is not champagne country if those high tariffs go on regular wines that is going to make a difficult situation a lot worse. 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I have a feeling this could be a heightist comment? And what about the sugar content in the biscuit? 000 0
Reposted by Rorie Smith. Writer. Reuters @reuters.com · 13/03/2025Scores 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/3FDUel2reut.rsProtesters occupy Trump Tower following arrest of Columbia studentScores 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. 411312295 1.3K
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 13/03/2025KING 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. 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Visit 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 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Don't worry from where I'm standing you are still young. Providing you eat your greens and keep moving 65 is a pretty good place to be. geni.us/StationPhilosophersgeni.usThe Station Philosophers' ClubGet it now: 000 0
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Astonishing... fact really is stranger than fiction ... 010 1
Reposted by Rorie Smith. Writer. James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Course 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. 57879150 879
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2025First 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) 010 1
Reposted by Rorie Smith. Writer. Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really: 36470421895 7K
Rorie Smith. Writer. @roriesmith.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Brilliant yes. But the names, the paper trail? Understand of course the danger of getting entangled with lawyers of v rich people. 010 1
Reposted by Rorie Smith. Writer. David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I'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 514349 143