Harry Smart
@munross.bsky.social
Montrose, Scotland. Munross was the Viking name for the town of Montrose.
Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC. Aspiring #Istanbul çocuğu.
Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC. Aspiring #Istanbul çocuğu.
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If truth is important to you than take 17 minutes out of your day to watch the interview below between @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Robert Kagan. The world has changed and there is no going back
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social interviews historian Robert Kagan about the end of American hegemony, the EU's need to individuate from the US immediately, and the prospects for MAGA's and America's future. Our crisis is well advanced. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goG...
Europe needs a dramatic strategic revolution - now: historian Robert Kagan
YouTube video by The Nerve
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:57 PM
If truth is important to you than take 17 minutes out of your day to watch the interview below between @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Robert Kagan. The world has changed and there is no going back
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This is a change in generational demographics -- lotta people died over 10 years and a lotta people came of age--
and the more extremist fundamentalism becomes a chokehold and takes over the conversation, the more regular folks of values & conscience assume there's nothing in there for them.
Duh?
and the more extremist fundamentalism becomes a chokehold and takes over the conversation, the more regular folks of values & conscience assume there's nothing in there for them.
Duh?
Gallup reports a 17-point drop in the percentage of US adults who consider religion an important part of their daily lives — from 66% in 2015 to 49% today. This is among the largest drops in any country over any 10-year period since 2007.
It's NOT a revival.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
It's NOT a revival.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
A louder Christian right, not a revival: What Trump is changing in religion
Religion experts weigh in as The White House claims President Donald Trump is the most "pro-faith and pro-religious liberty President in American history."
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:04 AM
This is a change in generational demographics -- lotta people died over 10 years and a lotta people came of age--
and the more extremist fundamentalism becomes a chokehold and takes over the conversation, the more regular folks of values & conscience assume there's nothing in there for them.
Duh?
and the more extremist fundamentalism becomes a chokehold and takes over the conversation, the more regular folks of values & conscience assume there's nothing in there for them.
Duh?
this piece isn't offered as a prayer, or a religious or theological reflection .. but ..
it moves between lament and petition ('we need') with a depth of feeling and clarity of thought that .. if only our prayers were more like this.
Do listen (just 6 mins) for the voice. (and read)
it moves between lament and petition ('we need') with a depth of feeling and clarity of thought that .. if only our prayers were more like this.
Do listen (just 6 mins) for the voice. (and read)
By the end of this presidential term, we will have spent 2,920 days of 340 million people’s collective lives with this cruelty and ignorance and vitriol representing and defining us...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-terrib...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-terrib...
The Terrible Waste of Trump's America
If he finishes his second term, Donald Trump will have been president for 2,920 days.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 AM
this piece isn't offered as a prayer, or a religious or theological reflection .. but ..
it moves between lament and petition ('we need') with a depth of feeling and clarity of thought that .. if only our prayers were more like this.
Do listen (just 6 mins) for the voice. (and read)
it moves between lament and petition ('we need') with a depth of feeling and clarity of thought that .. if only our prayers were more like this.
Do listen (just 6 mins) for the voice. (and read)
Danya Ruttenberg on how to face the horrors now - may all be protected from harm www.lifeisasacredtext.com/p/496b0dbd-a...
how to face the horrors of now
feel, then do
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Danya Ruttenberg on how to face the horrors now - may all be protected from harm www.lifeisasacredtext.com/p/496b0dbd-a...
January 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
How is it difficult for anyone to understand this?
Thank you, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 AM
How is it difficult for anyone to understand this?
Thank you, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Thank you, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mandelson, in the Kuenssberg interview "suggested that as a gay man he knew nothing of the disgraced financier’s sex life."
I've listened to audio of testimony by a *male* victim of abuse at Epstein events. Sexuality and gender are irrelevant here.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I've listened to audio of testimony by a *male* victim of abuse at Epstein events. Sexuality and gender are irrelevant here.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Peter Mandelson apologises for Epstein association in sudden U-turn
Former ambassador to US had earlier declined to give apology for keeping in touch with sex offender after his conviction
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Mandelson, in the Kuenssberg interview "suggested that as a gay man he knew nothing of the disgraced financier’s sex life."
I've listened to audio of testimony by a *male* victim of abuse at Epstein events. Sexuality and gender are irrelevant here.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I've listened to audio of testimony by a *male* victim of abuse at Epstein events. Sexuality and gender are irrelevant here.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Playing a game with a pal: if you imagine the current US administration as a star-field, each star a blaze of corruption, which would shine brightest. And if Noem is on your short list, is there any other sense in which she's bright?
Friend and I converging on Vance as the brightest of the worst.
Friend and I converging on Vance as the brightest of the worst.
January 12, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Playing a game with a pal: if you imagine the current US administration as a star-field, each star a blaze of corruption, which would shine brightest. And if Noem is on your short list, is there any other sense in which she's bright?
Friend and I converging on Vance as the brightest of the worst.
Friend and I converging on Vance as the brightest of the worst.
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Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel.
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel.
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Baptism begins w/renouncing Satan & evil:
Military incursions and bombings?
I renounce them.
Big Lie and Insurrection defended by Orwellian propaganda?
I renounce them.
Masked state agents rounding up human beings and shooting those who protest?
I renounce them.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Military incursions and bombings?
I renounce them.
Big Lie and Insurrection defended by Orwellian propaganda?
I renounce them.
Masked state agents rounding up human beings and shooting those who protest?
I renounce them.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Sunday Musings: Baptism of Solidarity
Jesus is beloved. You are beloved. All are beloved.
open.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Baptism begins w/renouncing Satan & evil:
Military incursions and bombings?
I renounce them.
Big Lie and Insurrection defended by Orwellian propaganda?
I renounce them.
Masked state agents rounding up human beings and shooting those who protest?
I renounce them.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Military incursions and bombings?
I renounce them.
Big Lie and Insurrection defended by Orwellian propaganda?
I renounce them.
Masked state agents rounding up human beings and shooting those who protest?
I renounce them.
open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...
Looking at the UK Church, and its relative silence over the genocide in Gaza, I'm struck by the way we use that word 'silence'.
We use it as if it were singular, when in fact we're talking about a plurality of silences. Silence as action, each silence encouraging another silence.
We use it as if it were singular, when in fact we're talking about a plurality of silences. Silence as action, each silence encouraging another silence.
January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Looking at the UK Church, and its relative silence over the genocide in Gaza, I'm struck by the way we use that word 'silence'.
We use it as if it were singular, when in fact we're talking about a plurality of silences. Silence as action, each silence encouraging another silence.
We use it as if it were singular, when in fact we're talking about a plurality of silences. Silence as action, each silence encouraging another silence.
Labour's "core mission is about creating a fairer and more equal society", says Luke Akehurst.
That was believable for folk who grew up with Labour leaders like Wilson, Callaghan, Foot. Now you can only laugh.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
That was believable for folk who grew up with Labour leaders like Wilson, Callaghan, Foot. Now you can only laugh.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Only Reform voters can save Labour
A progressive coalition simply doesn't have the vote share
www.newstatesman.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Labour's "core mission is about creating a fairer and more equal society", says Luke Akehurst.
That was believable for folk who grew up with Labour leaders like Wilson, Callaghan, Foot. Now you can only laugh.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
That was believable for folk who grew up with Labour leaders like Wilson, Callaghan, Foot. Now you can only laugh.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
If you think you should have the right to privacy, consider responding the Home Office consultation on the extended use of Live Facial Recognition.
A response tool that @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social have put together:
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
A response tool that @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social have put together:
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
Stop Facial Recognition — Big Brother Watch
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
January 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM
If you think you should have the right to privacy, consider responding the Home Office consultation on the extended use of Live Facial Recognition.
A response tool that @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social have put together:
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
A response tool that @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social have put together:
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...
leaving X cost me contact with lots of good people; it meant leaving behind good threads (if you leave, retrieve stuff before you go) ..
but, I'm glad I left. Better for my sanity, better for my conscience..
If you're still there, please reconsider
but, I'm glad I left. Better for my sanity, better for my conscience..
If you're still there, please reconsider
I wrote this in April 2024, about why people were refusing to leave X as it became undeniably a pro-white-supremacist site
But holy hell could I not have predicted that by 2026, it would be a child abuse material production site and THAT TOO is not enough to get people to leave the fucking place
But holy hell could I not have predicted that by 2026, it would be a child abuse material production site and THAT TOO is not enough to get people to leave the fucking place
You are the fuel that energises Elon Musk’s hate machine
X is something entirely new: it has the clout and influence of Twitter, blended with the hate of 4chan and the lies of TruthSocial. And it lingers because its users don’t see themselves as th…
ketanjoshi.co
January 7, 2026 at 11:48 AM
leaving X cost me contact with lots of good people; it meant leaving behind good threads (if you leave, retrieve stuff before you go) ..
but, I'm glad I left. Better for my sanity, better for my conscience..
If you're still there, please reconsider
but, I'm glad I left. Better for my sanity, better for my conscience..
If you're still there, please reconsider
January 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
keep coming back to this. Once US cooperation stops, all those expensive F35s lose strategic value. It was designed to make operation independent of the US impossible. You might keep a few flying for a year or so, but you lose access to the software / crypto keys that make it a functioning system.
5. Under the Trump administration, the US is no longer an ally of Europe or Canada, it has aligned itself with Russia.
January 4, 2026 at 3:15 AM
keep coming back to this. Once US cooperation stops, all those expensive F35s lose strategic value. It was designed to make operation independent of the US impossible. You might keep a few flying for a year or so, but you lose access to the software / crypto keys that make it a functioning system.
"Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence."
A fact that's been inescapable for over a century.
How on earth has the fossil fuel industry managed to keep a respectable face for so long?
A fact that's been inescapable for over a century.
How on earth has the fossil fuel industry managed to keep a respectable face for so long?
Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1
They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
"Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence."
A fact that's been inescapable for over a century.
How on earth has the fossil fuel industry managed to keep a respectable face for so long?
A fact that's been inescapable for over a century.
How on earth has the fossil fuel industry managed to keep a respectable face for so long?
Trump on the Venezuela / Maduro intervention:
it was "done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement".
Do we know which specific US forces actually did the bombing / kidnapping? If the action was illegal or unconstitutional (surely it was) then who exactly carried out Trump's orders?
it was "done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement".
Do we know which specific US forces actually did the bombing / kidnapping? If the action was illegal or unconstitutional (surely it was) then who exactly carried out Trump's orders?
January 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Trump on the Venezuela / Maduro intervention:
it was "done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement".
Do we know which specific US forces actually did the bombing / kidnapping? If the action was illegal or unconstitutional (surely it was) then who exactly carried out Trump's orders?
it was "done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement".
Do we know which specific US forces actually did the bombing / kidnapping? If the action was illegal or unconstitutional (surely it was) then who exactly carried out Trump's orders?
Deafening 'nothing to do with us' from European leaders on the bombing of Caracas and capture of Maduro.
Starmer's non-condemnatory comment: 'We must uphold international law' while turning a blind eye to a massive breach of it; cynical as it gets.
And still stronger than most EU leaders.
Starmer's non-condemnatory comment: 'We must uphold international law' while turning a blind eye to a massive breach of it; cynical as it gets.
And still stronger than most EU leaders.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Deafening 'nothing to do with us' from European leaders on the bombing of Caracas and capture of Maduro.
Starmer's non-condemnatory comment: 'We must uphold international law' while turning a blind eye to a massive breach of it; cynical as it gets.
And still stronger than most EU leaders.
Starmer's non-condemnatory comment: 'We must uphold international law' while turning a blind eye to a massive breach of it; cynical as it gets.
And still stronger than most EU leaders.
my mother died just a few years ago. her older brother fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. My uncle. 110 years, and it's just one generation.
It's bizarre that so many people accept the delusion that a generation is just c. 30 years.
It's bizarre that so many people accept the delusion that a generation is just c. 30 years.
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
January 2, 2026 at 2:49 AM
my mother died just a few years ago. her older brother fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. My uncle. 110 years, and it's just one generation.
It's bizarre that so many people accept the delusion that a generation is just c. 30 years.
It's bizarre that so many people accept the delusion that a generation is just c. 30 years.
this is one hell of a 🧵
picking up where @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social pivots to Europe to dish out a dose of realism.
It's not just Trump. The US is not going to start being nice to Europe again once Trump's term is done.
picking up where @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social pivots to Europe to dish out a dose of realism.
It's not just Trump. The US is not going to start being nice to Europe again once Trump's term is done.
5. Under the Trump administration, the US is no longer an ally of Europe or Canada, it has aligned itself with Russia.
January 2, 2026 at 2:31 AM
this is one hell of a 🧵
picking up where @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social pivots to Europe to dish out a dose of realism.
It's not just Trump. The US is not going to start being nice to Europe again once Trump's term is done.
picking up where @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social pivots to Europe to dish out a dose of realism.
It's not just Trump. The US is not going to start being nice to Europe again once Trump's term is done.
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The most innocent of moments - a young Palestinian girl filming herself showing her hair clips - is interrupted by Israeli missiles.
Yes, they shoot missiles at kids in tents. Don't tell me it's complicated
Jana and her brother survived, but the rest of their family was killed
Yes, they shoot missiles at kids in tents. Don't tell me it's complicated
Jana and her brother survived, but the rest of their family was killed
December 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The most innocent of moments - a young Palestinian girl filming herself showing her hair clips - is interrupted by Israeli missiles.
Yes, they shoot missiles at kids in tents. Don't tell me it's complicated
Jana and her brother survived, but the rest of their family was killed
Yes, they shoot missiles at kids in tents. Don't tell me it's complicated
Jana and her brother survived, but the rest of their family was killed
