Alan Smith

📌 ICYMI — Mysterious Right-Wing Think Tank Demanding Charity ‘Transparency’ Won’t Say Who Runs or Funds… — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social EXCLUSIVE: A group with no legal status and using fake names for the authors of its first published report, has won widespread media coverage, despite refusing…

A Matter of Life and Death Get Carter Withnail & I The Wicker Man Brief Encounter

It’s not a cult, nosirree, nope, not at all

How have we not won that game, let alone bloody well lost it? 😫 #pnefc

you could stop all the small boats. then they would find another statistically spurious thing to protest about. the people paying and organising these louts are testing the state for permission to advance a white supremacist agenda. the state is failing miserably

For the last 6 months, I’ve been working on a story of prejudice, bureaucracy, and misplaced cost-cutting. In today’s paper: the disabled people who are being banned from going abroad by the state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... - by me and @patrickjbutler.bsky.social

This is a terrific interview - bless you Mr T

1. I ought to club them and eat their bones 2. Ketchup…catsup 3. Just got to put my shoes on! 4. I’ll show you how to use a phone you boob! 5. (In a Moe voice as when he just walks into the Simpsons’ house randomly) Hello!

These all will look like “Fawlty Towers” in comparison with the staggering anti-comedy that is Tommy Wiseau’s ‘sitcom’ “The Neighbors”

Canada, by all means keep being ‘nasty’ to poor widdle Trumpy

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. Hard mode? Pfft.

Only just seen this, such sad news. Another of the good guys gone. RIP Kev x

What a beautiful song Eno’s Here He Comes is

This World Cup final - more proof that everything Trump touches turns to shit

They spoilt us with France-England last night didn’t they?

The Certainty of Chance by The Divine Comedy is a vastly underrated song. That is all.

Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. 
And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?source=...

I’ll say it again, any chance they can replace Dixon with somebody who actually wants to be there? And take Matterface with him. Not sure ITV having 2 games with the other superior commentary teams before bringing out the ‘big guns’ for this one was the best thing they could’ve done tbh

I’d probably enjoy this French Open final if I didn’t have to listen to the drivel constantly coming from Nick Mullins and Jim Courier’s mouths. Mullins is one reason why I try to avoid 6 Nations on ITV…

Restore Britain is not just proposing a punishment, it is offering voters the fantasy that horror can be turned into certainty: the death penalty | Phoebe Smith

Left: Reform UK's candidate Robert Kenyon asks people to vote for Reform UK to 'get Labour out' Right: Carol Vorderman reveals some of the repulsive comments from Robert Kenyon, including some directly towards her, and asks him to apologise

Left: Resident in Makerfield, "Change needs to happen, that's why I'm voting for Reform" Right: Explains on Instagram why the Reform UK's candidate Robert Kenyon is not suitable to be an MP

Waiting at Preston train station and seen a bloke with a hat on that looks just like the ‘Ask Me About Loom’ pirate in Secret of Monkey Island. Wonder if he replies to all other requests with ‘Aye’ as well

Not even a fan, but absolutely gutted for Hearts

A very happy 100th birthday to the remarkable Sir David Attenborough.

The only way Reform can be stopped in the local elections if people vote tactically. So whatever you do, don’t go to StopReformUK.vote to check who to vote for in your area and DO NOT share this.

Just hearing that commotion at the World Snooker final and got me thinking, I wonder why you don’t see streakers at sporting events anymore? Seemed to happen quite a bit back in the day (football, Wimbledon, cricket Test Matches etc)

Hooray, our World Cup 2026 Wall Chart is FINISHED 🥳 It's our biggest wall chart ever, an A1-sized shambles sullied by SIXTY wonky doodles. Dunno if competitions fly on Bluesky, but if you share this we'll send a couple of freebies out to some (un)lucky RTers x 🛒 noscoredraws.com/products/wor...

Tell yourself whatever lies you like but there's no such thing as a progressive party that doesn't recognise the fundamental dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers.

I have a huge playlist on shuffle while I’m working which has just thrown up Amon Düul II and then Earth Wind and Fire straight after - I’m loving the mood whiplash I’ve just experienced

What you actually want from an MP is someone who takes more time than the average person to understand the complexities of a given issue. Do we get that very often? No. But that’s a different issue.

Seeing as the world’s gonna end tonight, anyone fancy a pint?

Is there a worse football commentary pairing than Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon?

Love this - these are probably my favourite kinds of fesses

Used to be we’d have stories like this all the time, rightly up in arms about the prices when they were ‘just’ 40 quid - what happened to that? New replica shirts regularly 70+ quid, ‘authentic’ ones sold for 3 figures, changed every season and barely a peep now

Daily Star: £90??!! - England shirt hits the fan! #TomorrowsPapersToday

It is the duty of every decent person to drive racists out of public life.

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

'Smoke me a Kipper, I'll be back for breakfast' - RIP Rob Grant

More Norwegians winning in Milan I see #InterBodo #MilanoCortina2026

Concede in the 95th minute again, 2nd game in a row FFS 🙄

“Why on earth would you want time to yourself and your famil-ee, when you can work all the hours God sends for me, Lestat McCree!!!”

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen #musicsky 🎶 1. R.E.M. 2. Pearl Jam 3. Spinal Tap 4. Idlewild 5. Super Furry Animals

Thought today would be a tough one but 2-0 away at Bristol City - North End 3pts off automatic (admittedly Ipswich’s game was off)? Hoped against hope before but this feels a little different, more resilient than we’ve been in the past, what with responding to a poor result at Wrexham with 2 wins…

Walking into disaster: how narcotraffickers captured the BVI

The Eldonian dream: Inside the fight for Liverpool’s community housing utopia