Bryan Smith #RejoinEU
@bpsmithuk.bsky.social
UK Company director, scientist & humanist. Opinions are my own, but are based on facts. If they upset you don't take them seriously - but check your sources!
Same handle on Twitter. Microbiologist, tech expert, smallholder, polymath, Green energy #RejoinEU
Same handle on Twitter. Microbiologist, tech expert, smallholder, polymath, Green energy #RejoinEU
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Giving up smoking?
Here's how I did it:
Most cigarettes are "habit" (you have them at set times or stuations), ~10% are "addiction" (you need the nicotine).
Start by cutting out "habit" cigs, 1 or 2 each day, over about 3wks.
So, dont smoke at every tea break, or when you get to the lights etc.
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Here's how I did it:
Most cigarettes are "habit" (you have them at set times or stuations), ~10% are "addiction" (you need the nicotine).
Start by cutting out "habit" cigs, 1 or 2 each day, over about 3wks.
So, dont smoke at every tea break, or when you get to the lights etc.
1/2
Afghanistan shows if a country doesn't want to be subjugated, *it can't be subjugated*.
In the last 55yrs, Russia tried to invade & conquer it, retreating after 10yrs well beaten, & USA/NATO tried to conquer it, retreating after 20yrs, well beaten.
Ukraine can do that too, if they want to.
In the last 55yrs, Russia tried to invade & conquer it, retreating after 10yrs well beaten, & USA/NATO tried to conquer it, retreating after 20yrs, well beaten.
Ukraine can do that too, if they want to.
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Afghanistan shows if a country doesn't want to be subjugated, *it can't be subjugated*.
In the last 55yrs, Russia tried to invade & conquer it, retreating after 10yrs well beaten, & USA/NATO tried to conquer it, retreating after 20yrs, well beaten.
Ukraine can do that too, if they want to.
In the last 55yrs, Russia tried to invade & conquer it, retreating after 10yrs well beaten, & USA/NATO tried to conquer it, retreating after 20yrs, well beaten.
Ukraine can do that too, if they want to.
The proposal is a rise of 4.1% (~50p/hr for most).
Let's be honest, *no UK business* will have to reduce staff in order to pay for this & *nobody* is going to go bankrupt due to it.
It just *maintains* the buying power of minimum wage workers.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Let's be honest, *no UK business* will have to reduce staff in order to pay for this & *nobody* is going to go bankrupt due to it.
It just *maintains* the buying power of minimum wage workers.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Millions of UK workers to get pay rise as Reeves plans increased minimum wage
Chancellor says people must be ‘properly rewarded for their hard work’ with 16- to 21-year-olds also in line for raise
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The proposal is a rise of 4.1% (~50p/hr for most).
Let's be honest, *no UK business* will have to reduce staff in order to pay for this & *nobody* is going to go bankrupt due to it.
It just *maintains* the buying power of minimum wage workers.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Let's be honest, *no UK business* will have to reduce staff in order to pay for this & *nobody* is going to go bankrupt due to it.
It just *maintains* the buying power of minimum wage workers.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.
Sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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So SKY feature a poll showing 23% of Labour voters are critical of the PM.
SKY do not feature the fact that 77 % are not critical of the PM.
How reporting of polls works 😵💫
SKY do not feature the fact that 77 % are not critical of the PM.
How reporting of polls works 😵💫
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So SKY feature a poll showing 23% of Labour voters are critical of the PM.
SKY do not feature the fact that 77 % are not critical of the PM.
How reporting of polls works 😵💫
SKY do not feature the fact that 77 % are not critical of the PM.
How reporting of polls works 😵💫
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Starmer is the most successful PM in living memory, 59 of 86 Election promises already delivered after one year. The UK media is deliberately denigrating the UK's efforts to improve lives. It is also completely giving a totally false picture to the public and depressing confidence.
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Starmer is the most successful PM in living memory, 59 of 86 Election promises already delivered after one year. The UK media is deliberately denigrating the UK's efforts to improve lives. It is also completely giving a totally false picture to the public and depressing confidence.
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A family with two children, one in Nursery and one in Primary are around £8k a year better off with Labour Party policies.
I think Starmer knows exactly what he is doing, lifting children out of poverty.
I think Starmer knows exactly what he is doing, lifting children out of poverty.
November 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A family with two children, one in Nursery and one in Primary are around £8k a year better off with Labour Party policies.
I think Starmer knows exactly what he is doing, lifting children out of poverty.
I think Starmer knows exactly what he is doing, lifting children out of poverty.
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Labour are stopping reselling of driving test slots:
•Learners will only be able to change test twice per booking
•Tests can only be moved to centres close to original location
•Only learners can book their test, not third-party apps
•Military driving examiners brought in to help clear the backlog
•Learners will only be able to change test twice per booking
•Tests can only be moved to centres close to original location
•Only learners can book their test, not third-party apps
•Military driving examiners brought in to help clear the backlog
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Labour are stopping reselling of driving test slots:
•Learners will only be able to change test twice per booking
•Tests can only be moved to centres close to original location
•Only learners can book their test, not third-party apps
•Military driving examiners brought in to help clear the backlog
•Learners will only be able to change test twice per booking
•Tests can only be moved to centres close to original location
•Only learners can book their test, not third-party apps
•Military driving examiners brought in to help clear the backlog
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Anyone from the @libdems.org.uk want to explain why your Peers keep voting against key elements of the Employment Rights bill?
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Anyone from the @libdems.org.uk want to explain why your Peers keep voting against key elements of the Employment Rights bill?
There's nothing new in this - Panorama reported on it several times since 2011 (also in 2022), successive Tory Governments ignoring the problem (& making it worse).
It makes no sense to pay firms to export it, instead of subsidising recycling plants here
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It makes no sense to pay firms to export it, instead of subsidising recycling plants here
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK can create 5,400 jobs if it stops plastic waste exports, report finds
Campaigners say closure of loophole making it cheaper to export rather than recycle will boost circular economy
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There's nothing new in this - Panorama reported on it several times since 2011 (also in 2022), successive Tory Governments ignoring the problem (& making it worse).
It makes no sense to pay firms to export it, instead of subsidising recycling plants here
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It makes no sense to pay firms to export it, instead of subsidising recycling plants here
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As usual, The Guardian doesn't bother to clarify that these hundreds of thousands of carers left in debt by "DWP errors" happened *under the Tory Government* & that *the Labour Government* have promised to clear up the mess left by *Tories who don't care*
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
DWP to reassess hundreds of thousands of cases in carer’s allowance scandal
Damning official review finds many unpaid carers left with huge debt because of government failure
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
As usual, The Guardian doesn't bother to clarify that these hundreds of thousands of carers left in debt by "DWP errors" happened *under the Tory Government* & that *the Labour Government* have promised to clear up the mess left by *Tories who don't care*
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Reminder:
Green energy doesn't require war with oil-rich countries.
It's also sustainable and doesn't pollute our air.
It is also the future of the planet at large.
If we choose oil, we choose our own extinction.
So war for oil/oil = bad
Green energy = good
Thank you for attending my ted talk.
Green energy doesn't require war with oil-rich countries.
It's also sustainable and doesn't pollute our air.
It is also the future of the planet at large.
If we choose oil, we choose our own extinction.
So war for oil/oil = bad
Green energy = good
Thank you for attending my ted talk.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Reminder:
Green energy doesn't require war with oil-rich countries.
It's also sustainable and doesn't pollute our air.
It is also the future of the planet at large.
If we choose oil, we choose our own extinction.
So war for oil/oil = bad
Green energy = good
Thank you for attending my ted talk.
Green energy doesn't require war with oil-rich countries.
It's also sustainable and doesn't pollute our air.
It is also the future of the planet at large.
If we choose oil, we choose our own extinction.
So war for oil/oil = bad
Green energy = good
Thank you for attending my ted talk.
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This is a fantastic idea!
Darren Jones tells us a little about the good the new Office for the Impact Economy will do
It will bringing 'social impact' investors together with people doing great work in their local communities, helping to unlock investment for social good!
Darren Jones tells us a little about the good the new Office for the Impact Economy will do
It will bringing 'social impact' investors together with people doing great work in their local communities, helping to unlock investment for social good!
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is a fantastic idea!
Darren Jones tells us a little about the good the new Office for the Impact Economy will do
It will bringing 'social impact' investors together with people doing great work in their local communities, helping to unlock investment for social good!
Darren Jones tells us a little about the good the new Office for the Impact Economy will do
It will bringing 'social impact' investors together with people doing great work in their local communities, helping to unlock investment for social good!
In the UK, Labour has announced that touts & resale sites etc will no longer be allowed to do this.
But that news was somehow greeted by most people as either "irrelevant to their life" or "harming business", etc.
People in the UK can't have nice things. They just try to break them.
But that news was somehow greeted by most people as either "irrelevant to their life" or "harming business", etc.
People in the UK can't have nice things. They just try to break them.
Singer Olivia Dean slammed Ticketmaster, Live Nation and AEG Presents in an Instagram post Friday after tickets for her upcoming tour were instantly resold at hundreds of dollars more than face value, prompting the ticketing giant to cap resale prices for Dean’s tickets.
Olivia Dean Calls Ticketmaster ‘Disgusting’ Over High Ticket Resale Prices
Ticketmaster, in response, said it would cap the resale ticket prices at their original price.
www.forbes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In the UK, Labour has announced that touts & resale sites etc will no longer be allowed to do this.
But that news was somehow greeted by most people as either "irrelevant to their life" or "harming business", etc.
People in the UK can't have nice things. They just try to break them.
But that news was somehow greeted by most people as either "irrelevant to their life" or "harming business", etc.
People in the UK can't have nice things. They just try to break them.
Nonsense from Express (repeated by BBC)🙄.
#Facts:
Personal tax threshold (if frozen) will stay at £12570.
Anyone whose income (pension(s) etc) is under that won't pay tax.
Any earnings over £12570 taxed at 20%.
If pensions rise at 5% next 2yrs, extra tax ~20% of £700 x 2 (ie £140 & £140) *maximum*
#Facts:
Personal tax threshold (if frozen) will stay at £12570.
Anyone whose income (pension(s) etc) is under that won't pay tax.
Any earnings over £12570 taxed at 20%.
If pensions rise at 5% next 2yrs, extra tax ~20% of £700 x 2 (ie £140 & £140) *maximum*
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nonsense from Express (repeated by BBC)🙄.
#Facts:
Personal tax threshold (if frozen) will stay at £12570.
Anyone whose income (pension(s) etc) is under that won't pay tax.
Any earnings over £12570 taxed at 20%.
If pensions rise at 5% next 2yrs, extra tax ~20% of £700 x 2 (ie £140 & £140) *maximum*
#Facts:
Personal tax threshold (if frozen) will stay at £12570.
Anyone whose income (pension(s) etc) is under that won't pay tax.
Any earnings over £12570 taxed at 20%.
If pensions rise at 5% next 2yrs, extra tax ~20% of £700 x 2 (ie £140 & £140) *maximum*
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Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
Inducing immunity against cancer via the gut
Could a microbe that can smuggle antigens into the immune system of the gut provide a simple way to treat cancers?
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
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The UK broke an energy record on November 11, 2025, with 22.7 GW of installed capacity
and
over 50% of its electricity generated by offshore wind turbines.
Better with Labour ?
and
over 50% of its electricity generated by offshore wind turbines.
Better with Labour ?
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The UK broke an energy record on November 11, 2025, with 22.7 GW of installed capacity
and
over 50% of its electricity generated by offshore wind turbines.
Better with Labour ?
and
over 50% of its electricity generated by offshore wind turbines.
Better with Labour ?
Dear Pippa
It's *not a make or break* Budget.
It's a perfectly normal Budget.
It will be adjusted in the Spring, & there will be another Budget next Autumn, & every year to the end of this Parliament.
After this Budget, regardless of Media hysteria, the UK economy will grow, & life will go on.
🙄
It's *not a make or break* Budget.
It's a perfectly normal Budget.
It will be adjusted in the Spring, & there will be another Budget next Autumn, & every year to the end of this Parliament.
After this Budget, regardless of Media hysteria, the UK economy will grow, & life will go on.
🙄
A make-or-break budget: inside the Treasury before Labour’s crucial day
Big read by top economics editor @guardianheather.bsky.social & me
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
Big read by top economics editor @guardianheather.bsky.social & me
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
A make-or-break budget: inside the Treasury before Labour’s crucial day
From the outside, the run-up to Rachel Reeves’s announcement has looked chaotic, and many see the future of the chancellor and PM in the balance
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Dear Pippa
It's *not a make or break* Budget.
It's a perfectly normal Budget.
It will be adjusted in the Spring, & there will be another Budget next Autumn, & every year to the end of this Parliament.
After this Budget, regardless of Media hysteria, the UK economy will grow, & life will go on.
🙄
It's *not a make or break* Budget.
It's a perfectly normal Budget.
It will be adjusted in the Spring, & there will be another Budget next Autumn, & every year to the end of this Parliament.
After this Budget, regardless of Media hysteria, the UK economy will grow, & life will go on.
🙄
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BBC breakfast this morning still pretending Labour “announced tax increases” because they cannot admit their hysterical speculation was wrong and utterly unfounded
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
BBC breakfast this morning still pretending Labour “announced tax increases” because they cannot admit their hysterical speculation was wrong and utterly unfounded
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Good article...so rare to read anything picking apart what's happening in the HoL after May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak stuffed it full of Tories in quick succession over a short time period, ensuring any gov other than RW wouldn't get legislation through. Press #fail though too, not to report on this.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Good article...so rare to read anything picking apart what's happening in the HoL after May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak stuffed it full of Tories in quick succession over a short time period, ensuring any gov other than RW wouldn't get legislation through. Press #fail though too, not to report on this.
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Not only are the press/media not asking the vital awkward probing questions of Farage, they're not asking them of Polanski either. He's smirkingly skating under the glittery rainbow feeling invincible. Leave NATO? Prioritise cosy chats with murderous dictators? Is this to be UK's alt future? Right?
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Not only are the press/media not asking the vital awkward probing questions of Farage, they're not asking them of Polanski either. He's smirkingly skating under the glittery rainbow feeling invincible. Leave NATO? Prioritise cosy chats with murderous dictators? Is this to be UK's alt future? Right?
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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...
The only answer that benefits Ukraine is to smash into Crimea & take it back by force (perfectly possible with NATO help), immediately making all Russian gains since 2014 worthless.
Short of that, cutting off land access near Kherson & destroying the Kerch bridge, which are much more achievable.
Short of that, cutting off land access near Kherson & destroying the Kerch bridge, which are much more achievable.
A 2-party negotiation involves Party 1 making an unacceptable low offer, Party 2 refusing & retaliating with an unacceptable high offer, & agreement reached in the middle with both happy.
This isn't a negotiation.
Anything Ukraine offers involves surrender & loss.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
This isn't a negotiation.
Anything Ukraine offers involves surrender & loss.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Ukraine war: Fresh talks under way as US insists it authored peace plan
A group of US senators say Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the 28-point proposal as a Russian
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The only answer that benefits Ukraine is to smash into Crimea & take it back by force (perfectly possible with NATO help), immediately making all Russian gains since 2014 worthless.
Short of that, cutting off land access near Kherson & destroying the Kerch bridge, which are much more achievable.
Short of that, cutting off land access near Kherson & destroying the Kerch bridge, which are much more achievable.
A 2-party negotiation involves Party 1 making an unacceptable low offer, Party 2 refusing & retaliating with an unacceptable high offer, & agreement reached in the middle with both happy.
This isn't a negotiation.
Anything Ukraine offers involves surrender & loss.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
This isn't a negotiation.
Anything Ukraine offers involves surrender & loss.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Ukraine war: Fresh talks under way as US insists it authored peace plan
A group of US senators say Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the 28-point proposal as a Russian
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A 2-party negotiation involves Party 1 making an unacceptable low offer, Party 2 refusing & retaliating with an unacceptable high offer, & agreement reached in the middle with both happy.
This isn't a negotiation.
Anything Ukraine offers involves surrender & loss.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
This isn't a negotiation.
Anything Ukraine offers involves surrender & loss.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
No... what America needs is a full accounting of why all the breaches of the Constitution were allowed to stand unpunished at the time...
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
No... what America needs is a full accounting of why all the breaches of the Constitution were allowed to stand unpunished at the time...