smitjb.bsky.social
@smitjb.bsky.social
Just you and little Bobby Sudeten, then
January 14, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Just you and little Bobby Sudeten, then
"Making tax digital" = lots of digits.
January 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
"Making tax digital" = lots of digits.
It's not going to be a massive database. A person database with a few tens of millions records could be run on not much more than a modern PC. (It won't be, but that's another issue)
September 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's not going to be a massive database. A person database with a few tens of millions records could be run on not much more than a modern PC. (It won't be, but that's another issue)
Some of these operas you promote seem a bit naff.
September 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Some of these operas you promote seem a bit naff.
Needs to be watched as a double feature with My Fellow Americans.
September 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Needs to be watched as a double feature with My Fellow Americans.
He just hates Europe.
August 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
He just hates Europe.
I love this film. It catches the atmosphere of Robert Rankin's Brentford Trilogy.
August 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I love this film. It catches the atmosphere of Robert Rankin's Brentford Trilogy.
I'm 67. I don't think I have ever encountered a rotten egg.
Just saying.
Just saying.
July 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I'm 67. I don't think I have ever encountered a rotten egg.
Just saying.
Just saying.
I think there is a case for expressing support for Palestine Action to highlight how ludicrous the proscription is. But I suspect you are right and that's now what most of these people are doing.
July 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I think there is a case for expressing support for Palestine Action to highlight how ludicrous the proscription is. But I suspect you are right and that's now what most of these people are doing.
I hope you had planning permission and went through the appropriate consultation processes. #abundance
June 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I hope you had planning permission and went through the appropriate consultation processes. #abundance
What are the requirements? Isolated platform and immigration and customs for trains terminating in Britain?
May 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What are the requirements? Isolated platform and immigration and customs for trains terminating in Britain?
Except the secret service would shoot them
May 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Except the secret service would shoot them
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Turmeric
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Turmeric
It is a statement of fact. Not something you would recognise, I think.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
May 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It is a statement of fact. Not something you would recognise, I think.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Show me where I was abusive?
May 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Show me where I was abusive?
More denial of reality. And a touch of abuse in place of an actual argument.
May 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
More denial of reality. And a touch of abuse in place of an actual argument.
The FA doesn't just regulate professional football, it also regulates amateur and junior football. There are men and boys currently playing in women's teams, depriving the women of *their* fun and endangering their safety.
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The FA doesn't just regulate professional football, it also regulates amateur and junior football. There are men and boys currently playing in women's teams, depriving the women of *their* fun and endangering their safety.
It's competing freedoms. Their freedom to make a noise, versus my freedom to have P&Q. And there is a simply remedy - headphones.
You can legislate for noisy motorbikes and annoying drunks. You can't legislate for noisy children. That would take the balance of freedoms to far the other way.
You can legislate for noisy motorbikes and annoying drunks. You can't legislate for noisy children. That would take the balance of freedoms to far the other way.
April 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It's competing freedoms. Their freedom to make a noise, versus my freedom to have P&Q. And there is a simply remedy - headphones.
You can legislate for noisy motorbikes and annoying drunks. You can't legislate for noisy children. That would take the balance of freedoms to far the other way.
You can legislate for noisy motorbikes and annoying drunks. You can't legislate for noisy children. That would take the balance of freedoms to far the other way.
A surprising number of people in my timeline have come out as idiots, misogynists, or both today. You among them. I won't be buying any more of your books.
April 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A surprising number of people in my timeline have come out as idiots, misogynists, or both today. You among them. I won't be buying any more of your books.
There's a Bob Monkhouse line: "I've been described as a cult by the Guardian"
February 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
There's a Bob Monkhouse line: "I've been described as a cult by the Guardian"
Definitely "study". (UoE Faculty of Medicine 1975)
January 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Definitely "study". (UoE Faculty of Medicine 1975)
Showing as "map is not publicly available" when I click on the link?
January 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Showing as "map is not publicly available" when I click on the link?
Shhh. hang on to you advantages as long as you can.
December 15, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Shhh. hang on to you advantages as long as you can.
Perhaps we need some kind of committee to look into it. We could call them death panels or something like that.
December 12, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Perhaps we need some kind of committee to look into it. We could call them death panels or something like that.