Naomi Smith

haha very much an involuntary reaction

make peace with all the women you once were. lay flowers at their feet. offer them incense and honey and forgiveness. honor them and give them your silence. listen. bless them and let them be. for they are the bones of the temple you sit in now. for they are the rivers of wisdom leading you toward the sea. — i have been a thousand different women Emory Hall www.linktr.ee/emoryhall

It's International Women's Day so here are some things from my #Herstory folder
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#IWD #InternationalWomensDay

The "Unbinge worthy" section of today's pod had me jumping up & down in agreement!!!
YES & YES @pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social
Yours,
A Remainiacer from back in the day xxx

The antidote to politics shows.
To paraphrase Humphrey Littleton.

Celebrate #IWD2026 by listening to the debunking of what surely amounts to the biggest ever smear campaign - 3,000 years in the making.

Do it now, ahead of the bonus Pandora episode release this afternoon. A x

What a very good podcast that was. Thanks both for the insights, helpful perspectives and learnings.

I have had more blowback for daring to not like "The Wire" than when I comment on Brexit, transphobia, or the Middle East.

Informed, witty and deeply absorbing.

A must listen.

Every single one of

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a @quietriotpod.bsky.social today with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social Up for discussion; Labour’s hard right (but apparently “be more Labour”) immigration policies, Noem’s firing and replacement..Plus some questionable opinion on The Wire!

Alex and I have an overdue catch up on things. Enjoy! 🎧👇

So far I can’t cope with Dominic’s Baltimore “accent”. Idris is good though.

A bunch of tweets all saying "No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris debris from a successful interception"

LOL looks like the bots are out in force

Sunday School: Mahmood Music Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 8 March · 1h 2m

💥 NEW Quiet Riot: Sunday School 💥

🛃 Mahmood Music; Labour's new immigration policy
🤠 Noem You See Me; Kristi finally sacked
📺 Unbinge worthy; The shows that top our list

With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social.

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Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

@iandunt.bsky.social just listened to your ABC show with David Marr where he said, when in Britain he might be a stranger, but he never feels like a foreigner.

In these times of a rising right, pulling up the drawbridge rather than building bridges, I thought that was rather beautiful.

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - the BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation The government is consulting the public to aid decision-making on the terms for the BBC Charter’s renewal and any changes needed to help the BBC to continue to serve the public.

📣 CALL TO ACTION 📣

Deadline for submitting your view on BBC is 10th March

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Weekend FT: Qatar warns Gulf will be forced to halt exports of oil and gas ‘in days’ #TomorrowsPapersToday

Nigel Farage once again doing anything but spending time in Clacton.

Another completely predictable thing has just happened.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Somerset councillor rejoins Tories after defecting to Reform Alistair Hendry, who represents Burnham-on-Sea on Somerset Council, says he "acted in haste".

What a mess 👀

"A councillor who defected to Reform UK from the Conservatives rejoined the Tories in the same week."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7955ee0v30o

We aren’t clerics

For the office we occasionally order from the Athenian and it’s always cold on arrival

No 10, Treasury, the Home Secretary's own team and the perm secretary should not let senior ministers make up stats.

Its a breach of the code to do it deliberately. Some of those involved may not realise this wasn't just sleight of hand on a 30 year lifetime cost, but a false claim about the policy

Charts 17 + 21 show that the Home Sec would only save this imaginary £10bn (when the care workers and dependents turn 65 in 2050s & beyond) if she makes them all leave now, or [BEST fiscal case] let's them stay for 25 years but makes them leave at 65
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That’s my weekend reading sorted @snellarthur.bsky.social 👏

Get yours at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot

Ros articulated really well what a lot of us were concerned about. It was always the thin edge of the wedge.

NEW: After Gorton & Denton, how should we understand the threat to Labour's left?

Big new @persuasionuk.bsky.social report out with @38degrees.bsky.social on 'progressive defectors' - Lab 2024 switchers to Greens, Plaid, SNP, Lib Dems.

Who are they, who are they not & what's moving them? 🧵

For every ONE who is horrible enough to say it out loud, I try to mentally calculate how many are thinking it in silence.