simon smith

Official Taller than your average bear with suspiciously short hair. Photographer and Sailor.

[simon smith @si_smith]

@SkyNews Call me suspicious but could the Russians have been covertly involved?

[simon smith @si_smith]

@michaelwhite Yes I saw that, glad someone else noticed!

[simon smith @si_smith]

@MTreen16 Go for it Malc!

[Diana Harding @DianaHarding7]

Spot on from Allison Pearson - extracts👇

"If terrorists invaded the UK, hunted down hundreds of young people at Glastonbury, gangraped our girls, jeering and spitting on their half-naked bodies and displaying them as spoils of war, abducted grandmothers and terrified children, burned people alive, shot the family dog and turned their living-room into a pop-up abattoir, is there anyone who would seriously suggest that Britons should not rise up in sorrow and rage to take out the murdering bastards who did that to their country?"

"...I am ashamed of my country’s response. While France was swiftly deporting at least two non-nationals for anti-Semitic acts, it was revealed that the Football Association will not light the Wembley arch in the colours of the Israeli flag because of “fears of a backlash from some communities” and because certain senior officials are wary of “the perception they might be taking sides in the conflict”. Wembley was illuminated in the colours of France, Turkey and Ukraine after attacks, and even rainbow colours to protest LGBTQ issues in Qatar. But Jews don’t matter apparently.

England players lose no opportunity to take the knee in a performative display to “kick out racism”, but given the opportunity to oppose genocide they fret about causing bad feeling in racist communities. Cowardly, shameful and pathetic."

"Israelis don’t have the luxury of cowardice. Courage is the air that they breathe because, unlike the Europeans engaging in minor skirmishes about gender identity and “hate speech”, they have a war to fight against “hate action”. It really is a matter of life and death. That bestows a blazing clarity. As one government minister in Jerusalem snapped at some bleeding-heart reporter from Channel 4 News, “We don’t need moral lessons from you.”

The BBC’s Hamas terror cowardice shames Britain https://t.co/7bwFLCCUSO

[Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦 @BellaWallerstei]

I came to pay my respects to the Israeli Embassy. I was unable to get very far. Terrifying.

[Laura Richards BSc MSc MBPsS @thecrimeanalyst]

.@ManUtd made the right decision, finally & it seems reluctantly. To state ‘he did NOT commit the offences he was charged with’ is baffling. This should be reviewed independently by a domestic abuse/coercive control expert. I doubt they would conclude this
#GreenwoodOut #MUFC

[simon smith @si_smith]

Bit annoying trying out the new threads app and it keeps crashing when I try to post a message or indeed do a reply. Elon is this you?

[simon smith @si_smith]

Outrageous from @tesco I'm a big bloke, my wife bought me an XXL shirt on Saturday. Put it on and it's definitely not XXL - Took it back, had receipt, won't refund because the paper label had been cut off. Does @marksandspencer or @sainsburys do this?

[Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook @theJeremyVine]

Simon Smith — on his way to pub in Reading — bus hits him, he picks himself up, walks into the pub and orders a drink. Respect.

[simon smith @si_smith]

Well this isn't great! Sweet/not sweet

[simon smith @si_smith]

@arthistorynews Great prog last night, but every time I looked at the portrait it looked like his eyes were a bit wonky! But what do I know!

[simon smith @si_smith]

@yandyfeed Only one UK entry. The class seems pretty healthy at home. Strange

[simon smith @si_smith]

@mrc7cam Thanks Mike same to you and Jane. Bummer this Christmas, my dad died 2 weeks ago at the ripe old age of 92.

[simon smith @si_smith]

It's definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Does this apply to all religious texts?
Or just the one which is too feeble to protest?

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

Even Welsh supporters would enjoy this. Well done to the school and shame on whoever ordered them to take it down

[simon smith @si_smith]

@holland_tom One of my enduring memories of being a small child was being perplexed as to what Tupamaros Gorillas were as at that time there were news reports on TV about them!

[simon smith @si_smith]

@mariellaf1 That would require the UK to become a 'Vassal' State of the EU. Not sure if even Labour would go along with that

[simon smith @si_smith]

#thepeoplespiazza potentially a brilliant program but why the constant background music overwhelming pretty much everything. Really ruining it

[simon smith @si_smith]

@paulmasonnews Tactical nuclear weapons time maybe