Harry Smart
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Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
#Istanbul, Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC.
Poetry (Faber, Drunk Muse) Fiction (Dedalus). Social theory (Routledge)
#Istanbul, Photos. Drums. Greens, Kirk, #LUFC.
Pinned
Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
What the hell has Piers Morgan to offer on the subject of the war in Ukraine? #Newsnight
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
What the hell has Piers Morgan to offer on the subject of the war in Ukraine? #Newsnight
While we decry the US trying to impose the Witkoff-Kremlin plan on Ukraine, it's worth noting the continuing impact of Obama's appeasement of Putin when he invaded the Crimea.
This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
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This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
archive.is/202503021317...
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
While we decry the US trying to impose the Witkoff-Kremlin plan on Ukraine, it's worth noting the continuing impact of Obama's appeasement of Putin when he invaded the Crimea.
This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
archive.is/202503021317...
This from 2023 by Adrian Karatnycky for @foreignpolicy.com
looks particularly prescient ..
archive.is/202503021317...
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Mahmood is in the find out phase, having been suckered by Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies
Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ people
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Mahmood is in the find out phase, having been suckered by Starmer.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK to World.
This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us.
The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.
This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us.
The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.
Trump: "They had restrictions on water. It comes down from heaven. You want to wash your hands, or like me, you wash your hair. I lather up. There's no water. I won't mention the 3rd item in the bc I always get criticized. If you don't know what I'm talking about you shouldn't be owning a McDonalds"
November 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
UK to World.
This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us.
The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.
This is The MInd being given steadily more leeway to eff up the rest of us.
The Mind controlling the biggest military the world has ever seen, dwarfing the rest of the world's big guns combined. Using that military with growing irresponsibility. While our own leaders watch and learn.
If as Labour leader you wanted someone to front up a vicious immigration policy designed solely to appease traditional Labour voters polling as prospective Reform voters ...
you'd choose a daughter of immigrants
Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?
you'd choose a daughter of immigrants
Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
If as Labour leader you wanted someone to front up a vicious immigration policy designed solely to appease traditional Labour voters polling as prospective Reform voters ...
you'd choose a daughter of immigrants
Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?
you'd choose a daughter of immigrants
Shabana Mahmood: naive, or as amoral as Starmer?
surely #Newsnight can challlenge this categorisation of 'illegal' immigration as contrary to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.
Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
surely #Newsnight can challlenge this categorisation of 'illegal' immigration as contrary to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.
Why is this inherently racist categorisation going unchallenged.
"People have cars, people have e-bikes. Those are assets they should contribute to the cost of benefits."
Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables.
Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes.
#realitydisconnect
Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables.
Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes.
#realitydisconnect
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"People have cars, people have e-bikes. Those are assets they should contribute to the cost of benefits."
Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables.
Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes.
#realitydisconnect
Home Office Minister Alex Norris defending Mahmood's proposal to steal immigrants' valuables.
Rightly outraged by people arriving in small boats with their cars and e-bikes.
#realitydisconnect
Mahmood's hateful rhetoric is immoral, but that will count for nothing now that Starmer has remade Labour in his own image.
In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇
In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇
What Starmer and Mahmood are doing is saying things that will alienate much of the electoral base they rely on to stay afloat while not going far enough to keep right wing voters happy through policies that will fall apart on first contact with reality.
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Mahmood's hateful rhetoric is immoral, but that will count for nothing now that Starmer has remade Labour in his own image.
In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇
In terms of practical politics, exactly this. 👇
looking towards the Sea of Marmara, over backstreet rooftops, #Istanbul #streetphotography #panorama
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
looking towards the Sea of Marmara, over backstreet rooftops, #Istanbul #streetphotography #panorama
beautiful writing from @timothysnyder.bsky.social .. a morning run with his daughter; a short story.
snyder.substack.com/p/running-to...
snyder.substack.com/p/running-to...
Running together
A Winter Tale
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November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
beautiful writing from @timothysnyder.bsky.social .. a morning run with his daughter; a short story.
snyder.substack.com/p/running-to...
snyder.substack.com/p/running-to...
Robert Jenrick's Shabana Mahmood impersonation now difficult to distinguish from Shabana Mahmood's Robert Jenrick impersonation.
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Robert Jenrick's Shabana Mahmood impersonation now difficult to distinguish from Shabana Mahmood's Robert Jenrick impersonation.
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Compulsory labour is known as corvée, and it's traditionally been seen as a form of slavery
#newsnight
#newsnight
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Compulsory labour is known as corvée, and it's traditionally been seen as a form of slavery
#newsnight
#newsnight
a gulf opens up here between US and UK culture. In the UK comments on this post would be dominated by discussion of Donald Trump in a bikini. So far, 150+ comments in, nobody has gone there.
'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'
'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
a gulf opens up here between US and UK culture. In the UK comments on this post would be dominated by discussion of Donald Trump in a bikini. So far, 150+ comments in, nobody has gone there.
'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'
'Which culture do you prefer: let me know in the comments'
Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yeniçeriler Caddesi, #Istanbul, late summer evening.
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
Walking through quiet crowded streets to the #medrese to smoke a nargile and talk with friends.
#streetphotography
a celebration of ordinary things, light, time, making and seeing
don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times
don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times
Seed heads in old glass bottles... on the windowsill of a cottage we once lived in, in Shaftesbury
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
a celebration of ordinary things, light, time, making and seeing
don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times
don't we all desperately need to see beautiful things in such disordered times
Reposted by Harry Smart
Aerial image of one of my favourite glacier rivers in Iceland. Image taken just few days ago.
September 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Aerial image of one of my favourite glacier rivers in Iceland. Image taken just few days ago.
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
National Socialist racial purity laws were modelled on US precedent.
Closely and with careful deliberation.
Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
Closely and with careful deliberation.
Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
THIS ISN’T NEW FASCISM. IT’S OLD JIM CROW.
Old Machinery, New Operators.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
National Socialist racial purity laws were modelled on US precedent.
Closely and with careful deliberation.
Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
Closely and with careful deliberation.
Very grateful to Jermaine Fowler @thehumanityarchive.bsky.social for this.
thehumanityarchive.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Reposted by Harry Smart
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now.
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now.
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia.
A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today.
(🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM