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Dr Terry Smyth

@terrysmyth.bsky.social
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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Author: 'Captive Fathers, Captive Children: Legacies of the War in the Far East' (Bloomsbury 2023). Community Fellow, History Dept, University of Essex (2017-2025).

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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I've heard two interviews today with the SNP deputy, Jenny Gilruth, one on radio the other on TV. Someone must have a word with her about just how fast she speaks. Interviewers have to force their way in to the conversation. She was a teacher and I hope she didn't batter her students like this.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To all news outlets, please stop using the term 'agents' when an AI corporation illegally hacks into someone else's computer system. Just say, Open AI hacked into the Australian healthcare computer system. That way we will all know unambiguously who to blame!
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our politics should not be for sale. It's time for a strict cap on political donations. Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/donations-cap/
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Petition: We need a cap on political donations NOW
I’ve just signed to support this campaign – join me
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
South West Water has worst environmental record in England, dumps sewage in rivers 574,323 hours a year Severn Trent, Yorkshire Water came second and third. Bills up, criminal activity up. Still allowed to trade. Must revoke their licence. Eliminate profit motive. Nationalise.
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South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows
Exclusive: Friends of the Earth finds greatest sewage discharge in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
USS Lincoln: ‘The Ships Are Breaking Almost as Fast as the People’ open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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USS Lincoln: ‘The Ships Are Breaking Almost as Fast as the People’
Exhaustion, low morale, ‘starvation’ rations and broken equipment – Brynn Tannehill examines what the 260-day deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln says about the limits of US power
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"What Radicalized You?" open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...
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"What Radicalized You?"
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Chairman Farage: How Reform UK Operates as a Democratic Party in Name Only – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
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Chairman Farage: How Reform UK Operates as a Democratic Party in Name Only
The party's founding documents reveal the extraordinary levels of power Nigel Farage wields over Reform UK, making it all but impossible for party members to remove him
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
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How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Rep. Jared Huffman @rephuffman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This man will do anything to illegally profit off being the president, no matter how brazen. Trump's newest textbook demonstration of corruption is buying up a bunch of stock, then hopping on Truth Social to promote the same companies and give those stocks a big boost. www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/u...
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Trump promoted companies on Truth Social days after buying their stocks | CNN
Trump has promoted more than 20 companies on his Truth Social account days after buying stock in those firms, a CNN investigation found.
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...
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Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
For a year-and-a-half, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper's findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s...
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/05/06/r...
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Reform UK Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church
For a year-and-a-half, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right activists. Now, this newspaper's findings cast fresh doubts on Farage’s...
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I've signed the petition calling on Andy Burnham to bring Thames Water into public ownership. Will you sign and share? @weownit.org.uk weownit.org.uk/act-now/andy...
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Andy Burnham must take back Thames Water
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
How about everyone banishing the word "space" from their utterances. It has a literal meaning, of course, and that's fine. However, needless abstractions damage clear meaning.
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Reading the Riot Act: Reform UK’s Makerfield By-Election Candidate During the Summer of Trouble
The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Reading the Riot Act: Reform UK’s Makerfield By-Election Candidate During the Summer of Trouble
The archive of Robert Kenyon’s suspended X account reveals intense activity after three children were murdered in Southport in 2024
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Finance Curse: How Private Equity Upended Capitalism open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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The Finance Curse: How Private Equity Upended Capitalism
From water companies to care homes, private equity profits at the expense of customers and taxpayers. Adrian Goldberg talks to Hettie O' Brien, Alex Cobham and Naomi Fowler on the Byline Times podcast
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Waya @waya7665.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
'The US, Not Iran, is The Threat to Global Peace' open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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'The US, Not Iran, is The Threat to Global Peace'
Middle East expert Peter Oborne tells the Byline Times podcast that we need a more balanced understanding of the Tehran Government
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
mailchi.mp/bylinetimes....
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Reform Silent on Farage Photo with Far-Right Extremists
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Given the concern over growing antisemitism in this country, can I urge everyone to take the following free course. I took this a few years ago and it added enormously to my understanding of the history of antisemitism. All politicians first please! Thank you. www.coursera.org/learn/antise...
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Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present
Offered by Yad Vashem . In this course, 50 leading scholars from all over the world will explore questions and issues relating to ... Enroll for free.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
He skipped church. Dropped the F-bomb. Praised Allah. On Easter. You can’t make this up. The man tweets war threats while you hunt eggs with your kids. THIS is your president, America. Wake up.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
If you can’t sack your demented, insane president are you even a democracy?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Tail of a Nomad (T.) @tailofanomad.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The fact that this went out and Congress hasn’t immediately convened for an emergency session show just how much trouble we’re in.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
US Troops Need To Start Disobeying Orders In Iran, And Other Notes open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...
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US Troops Need To Start Disobeying Orders In Iran, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The President of the United States is a war criminal. Fact, not opinion.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
So Kemi Badenoch today continued her “fuel Britainnia” campaign to extract “every last drop” of oil and gas from the North Sea, by visiting a company whose oil executive owner has so far donated more than £250,000 to the Conservatives since she became its leader bylinetimes.com/2026/03/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch Campaigns For North Sea Drilling at Company Owned by Oil and Gas Executive Who Donated £250,000 to the Conservatives
The Conservative party, which calls the Government's plans for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy "crazy" has also taken millions of pounds from funders and directors of anti-Net Zero lobby ...
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Is the world really going to have to suffer WW3 because the USA can’t impeach a president?
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
mailchi.mp/bylinetimes.... "Empathy-washing" ... I think I agree.
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Doom and Dust | Trump's War on the World
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Bar0n_theGrey 🐕🎮✊🏾 @baronthegrey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
He checks every box for a narcissistic sociopath. All of his thoughts revolve around himself and he is unable to have sincere empathy or compassion for anyone else. Far and away the most dangerous and unfit president the United States has ever had.
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
So trump, the plain speaker who is now using putinesque cowardly euphemisms, "major combat operations" in Iran, eh? This is not a war then? A president who would likely call a spade a "multiangular shit shifting implement".
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Feefer @feefer2.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...
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The Government must reveal all details of Peter Mandelson’s links to Palantir - Foxglove
Sign the petition for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm?
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Bard’s President Should Resign Today Further evidence of the deep and pernicious malevolence pervading trump's America. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
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Bard’s President Should Resign Today
Leon Botstein has been revealed to have deep ties to Epstein. It’s time for accountability.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
👀 👀 Here's a visual representation of how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files... so far. www.instagram.com/p/DUgiBD_EiSP/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
From Bureau Chief to Uber Driver open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
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From Bureau Chief to Uber Driver
For the Byline Podcast, Steve Scherer, former Foreign Correspondent for Reuters, talks to Adrian Goldberg about migration after his own enforced move from Canada back to the United States.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 11/02/2026
Pam Bondi has been a complete and total failure at her job. The Epstein survivors showed more courage just by being in that room than she did under oath. She refused to answer questions and chose complicity. America deserves better.
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Curious that the "Andrew" should have hitched his Windsor wagon to Mountbatten, a name also associated with egregious practices.
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Starmer should not have allowed Sue Gray to go. McSweeney appears cut from the same cloth as Cummings.
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Picture of child with cancer edited to include Nigel Farage – Full Fact
An image which has gone viral on Facebook and supposedly shows the Reform UK leader fulfilling a child’s “final wish” by visiting them in hospital isn’t real.
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Dr Terry Smyth @terrysmyth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...
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No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire
Reading by Tim Foley:
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richwellness.bsky.social @richwellness.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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