Robert Smith

Website editor, Wikipedian and history buff. All views my own.

[simon targett @simontargett05]

It was a great pleasure to speak with Mayor Suzette Nicholson @LBRUTMayor at the @RichmondMayFair and talk about the work of the @RLHS1985 @rjasmith

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

Very impressed with PrideandPrejudice by @RSSatMWT. #Twickenham's York House Gardens is a wonderful setting for this inspired production. The dramatic adaptation is faithful to the original novel and very good casting ensures that Jane Austen's characters come to life. Go see!

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

@theopenbook2 Delighted to see that your landlord has withdrawn his planning application - that's excellent news. I suspect that the 470 objections from loyal customers might have had something to do with it - well done!https://t.co/6hFdYwwXL9

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

I think Gillian Anderson is a wonderful actor. But I just don't understand the praise she is getting for her Thatcher. It's awful - she is copying the voice and intonation of her latter years, after office. There is none of the urgency and passion of Thatcher as PM #TheCrown

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

After 39 years' continuous membership, I left @UKLabour
in disgust at #JeremyCorbyn's failure to tackle #LabourAntisemitism. I'm in no hurry to return. His statement undermining #Starmer's response to #EHRCreport was either deliberate or inept (for which an apology's in order).

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

@BritishGasHelp As our boiler wasn't working, I booked for a British Gas engineer to arrive between 8am and 6pm today. But we've now managed to fix it ourselves (there was an electrical switch problem) and would like to cancel the appointment. How do we do so please?

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

3/4 #Corbyn is trashing his own legacy and by not allowing the party to move on from its entanglement with #antisemitism he's chosen, unwisely, a very peculiar political hill to die on.

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

2/4 #Corbyn's response to the #EHRCreport was hasty, ill-judged, petulant and narcissistic (straight out of Trump school of politics): portraying himself as the victim rather than those who were wronged, illegally, by the party's failure to live up to its anti-racist principles

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

1/4 Having led #UKLabour to defeat in two general elections, #Corbyn has now set out to undermine his successor's lead in the polls and to ensure that the Conservatives will continue in government at Westminster for at least another decade.

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

Stunningly brilliant speech by @keirstarmer on #ehrcreport at today's @UKLabour Party press conference. Excellent that he is serious about tackling #antisemitism. But more heads need to roll, not just @Corbyn's, before Jewish community and its allies will feel welcome as members.

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

.@braun @remingtonuk I'm concerned that #premierinn are removing #electricshavers sockets from hotel rooms as part of their refurbishment. Are you aware of this? Is there anything you might be able to do to persuade them that this is not a customer-oriented approach?

[The Richmond Society @richmondsociety]

Homebase latest: Mayor of London on Thursday approved redevelopment plans for the Manor Road site. Now it’s for Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government to make good on his stated intent to call it in for review.

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

.@premierinn Why have you removed #electricshaversockets from your rooms? This isn't customer-oriented, there's no mention of it on your website and no easy way to make a complaint. Complaints page links to Contact us page, but there's no contact form: https://t.co/gvfVrDxyqm

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

You refuse to act against Jew hate, @Twitter @jack.
You enable the likes of @WileyCEO to spread their poison.
You choose to allow it on here.
So we say: #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate
At 9am on Monday, let's tell Twitter it has to act. Please join our 48 hour walk out.

[Luke Akehurst @lukeakehurst]

How does attacking journalists & whistleblowers who exposed antisemitism constitute "campaigning for a better world"?

[Robert Smith @rjasmith]

Do you recall the phrases you used back in the day? Was "back in the day" ever one of them? #backintheday #overworkedphrases

[Mike Holden @MikeHolden42]

@Aiannucci Hearty congratulations to the future ex Mrs Johnson.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

Apart from anything else, the optics of saying *as a proudly-anti-racist-party™, we should...wait until the EHRC forces us to act* are...interesting 😬

[Luke Akehurst @lukeakehurst]

I fundamentally disagree with RLB's premise that "we need to rebuild Labour as an insurgent force". Any fool can do protest and insurgency and anger. You win power, and get to change society when you stop looking like insurgents & look like a trustworthy alternative government.