Harry Smith

ex Westminster Correspondent for ITN and STV. occasional contributor to Ch4 and Aljazeera. hair now looking more like my 60’s hippy phase since lockdown

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

From Harry's family:
Very sadly Harry died suddenly early on Friday morning. It's so hard to believe his energy and sense of fun are gone. Many of you will have known him for his strong opinions and humour on here. He'll be greatly missed by family, friends and colleagues.

[sanya burgess @sanyaburgess]

Exclusive: This is the story of a British-Iranian man who has been trapped in Iranian prison for 3 years. In recordings from within Evin jail he tells me what happened to him and how he is worried that @BorisJohnson's inaction will leave him there to die https://t.co/F0aeJstUHm

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

As a new book alleges Donald Trump thought Finland was controlled by Russia, Finnish authorities say to be fair they thought the same about him.

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

I don’t know the answer to this but it is an interesting question

[Anita Singh @anitathetweeter]

How has Dominic Raab made it into government and not found his level as an assistant manager of a leisure centre in Stevenage

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

But Bolton is by far the most dysfunctional aide he employed. Calls into question the whole Truimp project

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

There are many other former Trump enablers who could have written this book but didn't. Not John Kelly or Jim Mattis, Rex Tillerson or Reince Priebus or many others. Time to step up.

My column on John Bolton’s Epic Score-Settling: https://t.co/gSIf6tuSfo

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

This is a challenge that might defeat Nelson

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

You can’t change the problems of Africa by removing a piece of stone.

[Nick Mitchener is at crossjack.bsky.social💙🔻🌻 @crossjacktar]

@smitharrytv Yes, far more ancient than Rhodes, so he can go. He was just throwing his money about.

[Katya Adler @BBCkatyaadler]

Ahead of Germany assuming 6 month rotating EU presidency, Angela Merkel told the Bundestag the #coronavirus “revealed how fragile the European project still is”. She called for
"cohesion and solidarity” and for a Recovery Fund for hardest hit economies to be agreed this summer

[St. Johnstone FC @StJohnstone]

🔵⚪️| St. Johnstone Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Callum Davidson as our new manager on a three-year-deal.

#WelcomeHomeCallum

➡️ https://t.co/7W49HekCkw

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

Have thought of a better solution. Oriel college is an ancient seat of learning and should not buckle to pressure to rewrite history but teach students about it

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Have thought of a solution we can all get behind. Replace the statue of Cecil Rhodes with one of Peter Hitchens refusing to kneel at the Rhodes Must Fall protest

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

That generation never talked about the war. I interviewed Denis Healey three times. Never once did he mention he was the beach master for the British assault on Anzio, a bloody but vital moment. Only those who didn’t fight in the war - weren’t even born then - drone on about it.

[Fiona Millar @schooltruth]

I once had to drive Dame Vera to the White Cliffs of Dover because , believe it or not, she had never been. Lovely woman and quite a day. #DameVeraLynn

[Ed Llewellyn @EdLlewellynFCDO]

The 🇬🇧 Red Arrows and the 🇫🇷 Patrouille de France flying over the British Embassy in Paris just now...later today they will fly over London too...#Appel18juin 🇬🇧🇫🇷

[Jane Merrick @janemerrick23]

Great line from Lib Dem Wendy Chamberlain on the DFID merger turning the PM’s own words against him - she says UK aid is “not some cashpoint in the sky - we will look to the £900,000 plane makeover for that”

[Allie Renison @AllieRenison]

President Trump has been raging about NFL football players taking a knee for almost the entirety of his time in office. I do not understand how Britain's *Foreign* Secretary is unaware of the context here ("Game of Thrones"). Hiding from American friends when that headline hits

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

I went into the business because I like meeting people and every so often you could make a difference. Just chatted to an old friend who says most applicants “just want to be on telly” That’s not what it’s about

[Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa]

I genuinely can't think of anything I'd rather do, or could do! I don't think I've ever tried to put anyone off & probably never would. If you can work on things you're interested in, and speak to people who are passionate about what they do, every day it makes a huge difference.

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

Whatever happened to open minds and free speech. I don’t agree with most of what he says but I would listen to him

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Peter Hitchens strolling along so nonchalantly while a student mob harangues him makes for marvellous viewing.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

The Belgian parliament is to discuss a Truth Commission into the country's colonial role in The Congo.

There have been calls for statues of King Leopold II, who established a private colony in The Congo in the 19th century, to be removed from towns and cities across Belgium

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Quentin Letts on the emerging pattern of #PMQs https://t.co/18rTLj6RP3

[Harry Smith @smitharrytv]

Not sure that’s a nightingale; sounds more like a blackbird

[Robert Harris @Robert___Harris]

Take a rest from care & woe and listen to a nightingale singing beside the Kennet & Avon Canal tonight