Michael Smith
@smithmichaelw.bsky.social
Cyclist, Traveler & Problem solver
It's still NOVEMBER
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It's still NOVEMBER
AI Please merge these into a single person who also has 5 kids at private school
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
AI Please merge these into a single person who also has 5 kids at private school
Your car records where it is how far it's been and logs it internally and that data will be shared back with the manufacturer - should be a simple data query possible on just about every new car
How exactly are they planning to measure and collect this new “per mile” electric car tax?
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Your car records where it is how far it's been and logs it internally and that data will be shared back with the manufacturer - should be a simple data query possible on just about every new car
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The club would like to hear from supporters who travelled to Marseille for the game…
www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/stat...
www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/stat...
Newcastle United statement: Visiting supporters at Stade Véledrome - Newcastle United
We will be formally raising our concerns with UEFA, Olympique de Marseille and French police in relation to the unacceptable treatment of our supporters by police at Stade Vélodrome following Tuesday'...
www.newcastleunited.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The club would like to hear from supporters who travelled to Marseille for the game…
www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/stat...
www.newcastleunited.com/en/news/stat...
Won't people think of the poor folks who have accidentally woken up in a £2m+ house..... Ah yes those are the ones with good friends at newspapers etc who can whinge for them
A ‘mansion tax’ on homes worth over £2m to raise about £400/450m a year is everything wrong with a ‘smorgasbord’ approach.
Lots of potential political pain for a public finances rounding error. Coupled with a new weird cliffedges.
Either reform property tax to raise proper money or don’t.
Lots of potential political pain for a public finances rounding error. Coupled with a new weird cliffedges.
Either reform property tax to raise proper money or don’t.
Homes worth more than £2mn set to be hit by Budget raid on.ft.com/4rocFhe
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Won't people think of the poor folks who have accidentally woken up in a £2m+ house..... Ah yes those are the ones with good friends at newspapers etc who can whinge for them
Escaped to Italy for a little sunshine before Christmas - it's now cheese toastie weather and I've bought an umbrella - further south we go
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Escaped to Italy for a little sunshine before Christmas - it's now cheese toastie weather and I've bought an umbrella - further south we go
Bravo Lads!
It's finally happened.
Christmas cancelled in Kent because Operation Raise the Colours tatty lamp post flags prevent the Christmas lights going up.
www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...
Christmas cancelled in Kent because Operation Raise the Colours tatty lamp post flags prevent the Christmas lights going up.
www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...
a white flag with a red cross on it is waving in the wind
ALT: a white flag with a red cross on it is waving in the wind
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bravo Lads!
and how many of those objecting are complaining about the ads they see watching PL football on a dodgy firestick from a foreign country
65% of white Britons say they ARE well represented in advertising.
So why lead with the far smaller figure?
So why lead with the far smaller figure?
27% of white Britons say they don't feel well represented in advertising in terms of their race, with Reform MP Sarah Pochin causing a row on the subject
White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%
Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
White Britons
Well represented: 65%
Not well represented: 27%
Ethnic minority Britons
Well: 42%
Not well: 51%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
and how many of those objecting are complaining about the ads they see watching PL football on a dodgy firestick from a foreign country
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🚨 Boxing Day Fixture 🚨
The Man Utd v NUFC game has been chosen to be shown on TV on Boxing Day on Sky Sports.
26/12/25 - 8pm kick off 😡
The longest trip of that gameweek selected for the most unsociable slot with no public transport available !
#stopexploitingloyalty #NUFC
The Man Utd v NUFC game has been chosen to be shown on TV on Boxing Day on Sky Sports.
26/12/25 - 8pm kick off 😡
The longest trip of that gameweek selected for the most unsociable slot with no public transport available !
#stopexploitingloyalty #NUFC
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🚨 Boxing Day Fixture 🚨
The Man Utd v NUFC game has been chosen to be shown on TV on Boxing Day on Sky Sports.
26/12/25 - 8pm kick off 😡
The longest trip of that gameweek selected for the most unsociable slot with no public transport available !
#stopexploitingloyalty #NUFC
The Man Utd v NUFC game has been chosen to be shown on TV on Boxing Day on Sky Sports.
26/12/25 - 8pm kick off 😡
The longest trip of that gameweek selected for the most unsociable slot with no public transport available !
#stopexploitingloyalty #NUFC
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October 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
@newsagents.bsky.social maybe Starmer wasn't aiming just at Burnham but a big shot at the greens and eco populism
September 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@newsagents.bsky.social maybe Starmer wasn't aiming just at Burnham but a big shot at the greens and eco populism
@theresthistory.bsky.social walking to my hotel in Vienna and I feel like I know a lot about just about everyone on a street sign! Cheers
September 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@theresthistory.bsky.social walking to my hotel in Vienna and I feel like I know a lot about just about everyone on a street sign! Cheers
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please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice
September 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice
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Only two more sleeps.. who’s getting excited?
September 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Only two more sleeps.. who’s getting excited?
Or they have exactly the right amount of points reflecting how the club is run and how the managers have performed. Amorin - 2nd real job, too young to be locked into a system. Recruitment this summer missed all the obvious issues and overpaid wages/transfer for strikers.
31 points from 31 games for Ruben Amorim. He admits it isn't the record a Man Utd manager should have. He isn't the first managerial Ruben to be sacked by a United this season. But he won't change, which invites the question if United should change the manager:
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Man United’s relegation form proves Ruben Amorim is not the next great manager
The Man United manager has a terrible record at the club and a 3-0 loss in the Manchester derby compounds the fact his plans are not working
www.independent.co.uk
September 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Or they have exactly the right amount of points reflecting how the club is run and how the managers have performed. Amorin - 2nd real job, too young to be locked into a system. Recruitment this summer missed all the obvious issues and overpaid wages/transfer for strikers.
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Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.
Disemboweling himself
What the heck is the head of a British political party doing in front of Congress anyway?
September 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Disemboweling himself
Normally you expect a bit more fight from somebody cornered
Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out?
Farage: I have no opinion on it.
Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released
Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?
Farage: I have no opinion on it.
Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released
Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?
September 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Normally you expect a bit more fight from somebody cornered
And it will be a long time before he voluntarily gets cornered like that again - huge mistake on his part to walk in there - or maybe he just forgot what being forced to answer was all about
He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
And it will be a long time before he voluntarily gets cornered like that again - huge mistake on his part to walk in there - or maybe he just forgot what being forced to answer was all about
Just some light rain and stuff... No summer in Brussels for me
September 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Just some light rain and stuff... No summer in Brussels for me
Feels like Wednesday already
Update: not tomorrow; Wednesday.
Dramatic events were always on the cards today.
We’ll have a show for you after the deadline has closed (tomorrow) as planned, whatever happens.
We’ll have a show for you after the deadline has closed (tomorrow) as planned, whatever happens.
September 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Feels like Wednesday already