Dr Terry Smyth
@terrysmyth.bsky.social
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
· Nov 16
'Captive Fathers, Captive Children'
My 2023 book published by Bloomsbury.
'an extraordinary book ... a memoir, a social history of POWs, an ethnography of commemoration & an exploration of the subjectivity of descendants.' (Prof Michael Roper)
'deeply personal, yet scholarly' (Prof Joanna Bourke)
My 2023 book published by Bloomsbury.
'an extraordinary book ... a memoir, a social history of POWs, an ethnography of commemoration & an exploration of the subjectivity of descendants.' (Prof Michael Roper)
'deeply personal, yet scholarly' (Prof Joanna Bourke)
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Mason and Keunsberg are unwatchable, the glee in their faces as Labour stumble on the most pathetic points where most of us couldn’t give a shit.
They are not in the slightest impartial, hang Fararge FFS, there’s mountains of scandals there, you don’t need to look far.
They are not in the slightest impartial, hang Fararge FFS, there’s mountains of scandals there, you don’t need to look far.
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Mason and Keunsberg are unwatchable, the glee in their faces as Labour stumble on the most pathetic points where most of us couldn’t give a shit.
They are not in the slightest impartial, hang Fararge FFS, there’s mountains of scandals there, you don’t need to look far.
They are not in the slightest impartial, hang Fararge FFS, there’s mountains of scandals there, you don’t need to look far.
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"It is my job, after a careful examination of the facts, to call it, on your behalf"
No it effing isn't Chris Mason. Whatever happened to reporting the facts in a balanced way? 🤦♂️
No it effing isn't Chris Mason. Whatever happened to reporting the facts in a balanced way? 🤦♂️
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"It is my job, after a careful examination of the facts, to call it, on your behalf"
No it effing isn't Chris Mason. Whatever happened to reporting the facts in a balanced way? 🤦♂️
No it effing isn't Chris Mason. Whatever happened to reporting the facts in a balanced way? 🤦♂️
Just heard Stephen Flynn spouting on about 'the court of public opinion' regarding what 'the public' think about Rachel Reeves. Please will they stop this! There is no such thing! It's just a fanciful and manipulative way of saying 'MY opinion is this ... '.
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just heard Stephen Flynn spouting on about 'the court of public opinion' regarding what 'the public' think about Rachel Reeves. Please will they stop this! There is no such thing! It's just a fanciful and manipulative way of saying 'MY opinion is this ... '.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - a rare effort to address inequality of power.
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers' rights bill is a huge achievement | Polly Toynbee
It makes no sense for union leaders to cry betrayal when it will be their members who benefit from these sorely needed reforms, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill - a rare effort to address inequality of power.
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“A large majority of voters backing Nigel Farage also want stronger working rights. Yet he and his MPs voted against every item in the bill.”
But of course they did.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
5 Minutes of artistic inspiration and insight! autograph.org.uk/learn/for-cr...
Gayle Chong Kwan on her series 'Cockaigne'
autograph.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
5 Minutes of artistic inspiration and insight! autograph.org.uk/learn/for-cr...
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
Gove's bonkers ebacc finally disposed of in the bin of conservative cockups. Let's get the arts moving again in schools!
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Gove's bonkers ebacc finally disposed of in the bin of conservative cockups. Let's get the arts moving again in schools!
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Congratulations to our alumna Jasmine Mitchell, medicine graduate star baker, and now Champion of the Great British Bake Off! 🍰 ⭐ 🏆
#EverToExcel
#EverToExcel
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Congratulations to our alumna Jasmine Mitchell, medicine graduate star baker, and now Champion of the Great British Bake Off! 🍰 ⭐ 🏆
#EverToExcel
#EverToExcel
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It’s as if they think we’ve all been in a coma for the last 15 years, rather than watching the Tories smash it all up in front of us.
Very good on our ‘let’s-not-bother-with-right-wing-racism-or-Farage’s-corruption-and-let’s-blame-Labour-for-everything’ media.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
Very good on our ‘let’s-not-bother-with-right-wing-racism-or-Farage’s-corruption-and-let’s-blame-Labour-for-everything’ media.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s as if they think we’ve all been in a coma for the last 15 years, rather than watching the Tories smash it all up in front of us.
Very good on our ‘let’s-not-bother-with-right-wing-racism-or-Farage’s-corruption-and-let’s-blame-Labour-for-everything’ media.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
Very good on our ‘let’s-not-bother-with-right-wing-racism-or-Farage’s-corruption-and-let’s-blame-Labour-for-everything’ media.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
I see the BBC is fawning over farrage yet again, broadcasting a speech by this lapdog to the super rich live to the nation.
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I see the BBC is fawning over farrage yet again, broadcasting a speech by this lapdog to the super rich live to the nation.
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If *anyone* still thinks this grifting, piss-taking, moneyed spiv and his grifting, piss-taking, moneyed spiv mates are in this for them, then they need to be sent this. Every day.
Farage is literally laughing his way to the bank and betraying this country as he goes.
Farage is literally laughing his way to the bank and betraying this country as he goes.
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If *anyone* still thinks this grifting, piss-taking, moneyed spiv and his grifting, piss-taking, moneyed spiv mates are in this for them, then they need to be sent this. Every day.
Farage is literally laughing his way to the bank and betraying this country as he goes.
Farage is literally laughing his way to the bank and betraying this country as he goes.
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He thinks we’re stupid. He relies on it. He’s relieved the media nods along. He needs the racist vote. But has to seem ‘respectable’ to persuade others. He’s angry with Pochin because she exposed what Reform really is. A party that doesn’t like seeing black or Asian people. A racist party.
(Times)
(Times)
![Under-fire Reform MP is not
'genuinely' racist, says Farage
Extract:
Nigel Farage said he is "very unhappy" with a Reform MP for claiming there were too many black and Asian people in adverts, but said he did not believe that she was "genuinely racist".
The Reform UK leader said that Sarah Pochin's remarks were "ugly" and
"taken on their own could be read to be very, very unpleasant indeed".
", but he
would not be taking further action against her.
He said: "I don't like the way in which she did it. I am very unhappy with her indeed, [and] if I felt the intention was deliberately and genuinely racist.! would have taken a different course.
He said that her comments should be taken in the context of "DEl madness".
He added: *I understand the basic point, but the way she put it, the way she worded it, was wrong and was ugly, and if I thought that the intention behind it was racist, I would have taken a lot more action than I have to date." Pochin was accused of "shocking racism" by the prime minister for the re marks made on Saturday in responseto a viewer on a Talk TV phone-in. The caller had complained that the demographics of advertising "don't represent what this country looks like".
Pochin said the viewer was "absolute-ly right", adding: "It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people".
". She said: "It
doesn't reflect our society and I feel that your average white person, average white family, is not represented any more. How many times do you look at a TV advert and you think that there is not a single white person on it?"
Sir Keir Starmer said that Pochin's views were the kind that will tear our country apart*. He told the BBC that the incident *tells you everything about Reform."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreiajrgt6kz6ubgevdj5m3k35piccuwgkoe54zddjxg7mk7em6rikbm@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
He thinks we’re stupid. He relies on it. He’s relieved the media nods along. He needs the racist vote. But has to seem ‘respectable’ to persuade others. He’s angry with Pochin because she exposed what Reform really is. A party that doesn’t like seeing black or Asian people. A racist party.
(Times)
(Times)
On the face of it, this looks like a shameful case. Free this doctor! We have few enough already!! www.rllaw.co.uk/rahman-lowe-...
Rahman Lowe Client, Dr Aladwan Vindicated as GMC Tribunal Refuses Interim Suspension Over Pro-Palestine Posts
Rahman Lowe client, Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a trainee trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, has successfully resisted attempts by the General Medical Council (GMC) to impose restrictions on her medical practice ...
www.rllaw.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
On the face of it, this looks like a shameful case. Free this doctor! We have few enough already!! www.rllaw.co.uk/rahman-lowe-...
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"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife
'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'
leftfootforward.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
"RIOT WOMEN" on BBC1. Don't drag this one out. Watch it in one go if you can. It's completely brilliant!
October 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"RIOT WOMEN" on BBC1. Don't drag this one out. Watch it in one go if you can. It's completely brilliant!
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“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
October 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Why you should never argue online iandunt.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why you should never argue online
Even if you win a mud fight, you're still covered in mud.
iandunt.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Why you should never argue online iandunt.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...