Elliot Smith 🇬🇧 🇩🇰

British journo & fiction writer in 🇩🇰 | ex-@CNBC Correspondent in London | Skegness native | Books, dive bars, sports enthusiast

[Elliot Smith 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 @ElliotSmithCph]

Well chuffed to see another piece of short fiction, this time set in rural Lincolnshire during the Millennium Bug panic, come to life in the Spring 2026 issue of @chariotpress.

https://t.co/76WBI16Hzk

[Elliot Smith 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 @ElliotSmithCph]

@reaganreese_ @CoachE321 @DailyCaller Groundbreaking stuff.

Some awful dumb cunts paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for some puerile AI slop. More as we get it.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

The horrific knife attack occurred around 10.30 PM on June 8, 2026, on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast.

A man in his 40s was pinned down and repeatedly stabbed/slashed with what police believe was a kitchen knife.

The victim was hospitalised with serious/life-threatening injuries but is alive; police have corrected misinformation claiming he died or was a child. His condition remains serious as of the latest updates.

Police initially described the suspect as believed to be Somali but quickly corrected to Sudanese. He had leave to remain in the UK and had traveled to Northern Ireland from Dublin. He lived locally near the scene.

Leave to remain generally means he possessed valid UK immigration permission to be in the country (most likely limited/temporary leave, as full ILR is less commonly phrased that way without specification). This status allowed him to live in the UK legally at the time of the incident, even though he had traveled from Dublin.

There is no verified information about what led to this incident, but it is NOT being treated as terrorism-related. A major investigation is underway; no other suspects are being sought.

Police and officials (including Justice Minister Naomi Long) are urging calm to avoid retaliation, backlash against ethnic minorities, or repeats of past disorder.

Despite this, and entirely predictably, Tommy Robinson, (currently believed to be in Russia with Erroll Musk, who has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren), along with the usual elite populist politicians, including Nigel Farage, are seeking to capitalise on the incident and inflame tensions.

Robinson has made social disorder more likely by tweeting to his 1.9 million followers - many of whom are real - the reckless and utterly absurd claim that "the whole of the UK is hitting the streets tonight", while labeling the suspect a "third world savage".

Robinson’s language is deliberately provocative and escalatory. His history includes convictions for contempt, assault, etc., and such rhetoric can rally supporters and risks disorder.

The best outcome is a thorough, transparent investigation (motive, full background, any prior flags) followed by honest debate befitting of any civilised democracy.

In the UK, the rule of law applies to everyone: suspects should get due process, victims should get justice, and citizens should get answers.

Some people might reasonably describe someone convicted of assault, leading violent public brawls, and kicking an off-duty police officer in the head, as a "savage".

[Christopher C. Cuomo @ChrisCuomo]

Is it masculine to run from a storm? Is it masculine to allow a man to insult you, call your wife ugly, and call your father a criminal...and then kiss his ass?

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Why doesn’t Farage sit down with a low paid care worker, look them in the eye and tell them the truth.

He voted against a ban on zero hours contracts.

Against sick pay from Day 1.

Against protections from fire & rehire.

He’s not a friend of workers - he’s a political fraud.

[Elliot Smith 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 @ElliotSmithCph]

@lisa_4_la Oh wow, I totally forgot to include my political persuasion, university history and current area of residence when I texted my "friend" earlier.

Fucked it.

[Guy Walters 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🇮🇷🇧🇾 @guywalters]

Quote of the day by Lee of Makerfield.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

We are ten years into allegations of widespread election fraud - only for elections Trump or republicans lose, mind you - for which Trump and allies have either not produced evidence, or claimed evidence which was subsequently debunked. And blatant contradictions - such as celebrating wins under the same laws and practices while confidently declaring theft for any losses - are now the norm.

[Sam @SamCKx]

I'm not a some overt supporter of Starmer, but if you want to see how manipulation and misinformation works on this platform, @toryboypierce's post here can be used as an exemplary example of disingenous, misleading BS.

The data he is referring to is 25 year data. When Starmer took office debt was 99.5% of GDP, today it's 94.2% of GDP. That's actually a fall of 5.3%. The UK is the world's 5th largest economy, recently upgrading from 6th. Debt is not increasing, and the UK is not a third world country - far from it.

Andrew takes 25 year data and attributes poor performance to one of the few Prime Ministers during that era who actually reduced debt to gbp.

Do we wonder why the working man on the street has been made to hate Starmer with all this utter BS circulated by these compromised grifters?

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

“I don’t trust the final result unless it’s exactly what I want” is the perfect representation of what the Republican Party has become

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is unhinged. If a family member behaved this way, you'd worry about them. If a CEO behaved like this, the board would meet. He's living in an alternate reality and furious when a person won't indulge his fantasies.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

He cannot bear being confronted with the truth. And he is surrounded by sycophants so it rarely happens

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

63 federal courts threw out all of Trump’s BS claims.
All of them. The Supreme Court rejected all of Trump’s BS claims. He now screams and cuts off interviews because he constantly lies about elections being rigged. He’s projecting again.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Scott Pelley responds to Trump saying he doesn’t care about the country: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan, and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the president has ever done any of those things for his country. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment, you love the country. While all the other descriptions the president used about me might be applicable, not that one”

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”

There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.

And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

[Elliot Smith 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 @ElliotSmithCph]

https://t.co/yCepsnnvxb out here trying to cause civil wars.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rubio: I have never seen Trump fall asleep.

Lieu: I’m going to show you a video that shows you just lied to congress. Here is a video of him asleep while you are talking.

[Ben @benhoobs]

Reform UK's best and brightest...

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

You say that post-Floyd DEI training created the policing culture that killed Henry Nowak. This is testable. If you're right, the pattern should begin after 2020. It doesn't.

Christopher Alder, 1998. Falklands veteran. Dragged handcuffed and unconscious into a Hull custody suite. Left face down on the floor. Officers stood around while he choked to death. Ten minutes before anyone helped. Inquest: unlawful killing. Five officers charged. All acquitted.

Sean Rigg, 2008. Schizophrenic man, died at Brixton police station after restraint. Inquest found "unsuitable and unnecessary force" and police failings "more than minimally" contributed to his death.

Robert Edwards, 2011. Died in a Suffolk cell. The IPCC found police "failed to take appropriate care" and didn't carry out proper welfare checks. The coroner said he should never have been deemed fit for detention.

Wayne Couzens, 2015–2021. Reported for indecent exposure in 2015. Kent Police had his name, address, and plate number. The investigating sergeant knew his brother, also a police officer. No action. Failed vetting twice, still became a Met officer. Exposed himself days before murdering Sarah Everard. The investigating officer lied about CCTV. Three forces had twenty years of red flags. Nothing to do with DEI

Post-Floyd, still no DEI involvement: Stephen Reardon, 2023, had seizures in a police van while the officer said he was "playing games". Died. Jerome Cowan, 2022, found unresponsive in a library, officers failed to provide first aid. Died. A man at St Erth, 2022, left drunk and vulnerable outside a railway station on a cold night, officers drove past without stopping. Died. All officers dismissed or facing gross misconduct.

Same pattern every time. A person in distress needs help, officers dismiss it or walk away. It happened in 1998, 2008, 2011, 2022, 2023, and 2025. DEI didn't create it. It predates it by a generation.

You also claim "determined, institutional silence". The Speaker acknowledged the case on 1 June. The Home Secretary called it "a horrifying act" and Digwa's false accusation "an evil act" in an oral statement to the Commons on 2 June. Debated in both Houses. Starmer and Baddenoch clashed over it. Front-page news for a week. There is no silence. You invented it because your baseless argument needs it.

You ask pretentiously what you call a system where a dying teenager's word counts for less than his killer's.

I'd ask you: what do you call a system where Christopher Alder choked to death on a custody floor in 1998 while officers stood around, and twenty-seven years later Henry Nowak bled to death saying the same words?

That is an ideology. But not the one you're describing. It's an institutional ideology of indifference to people in police custody, and it has been killing people for decades.

Blaming a training course that's existed for five years for a rot that's existed for hundreds of years isn't analysis. It's a deflection that protects the actual dangerous ideology.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

New figures show Reform raked in £9m in 3 months, with Farage still in the hotseat for his £5m "gift" from billionaire Chris Harborne.

£4m came from billionaire Ben Delo, who was convicted for facilitating money laundering in the US, but pardoned by Trump.

https://t.co/6tXHKCqMjm