Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Financial Times journalist, fascinated by both markets and planning. Avid supporter of London Irish, George Eliot and Brighton and Hove Albion. All views my own
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Helping Israel starve babies isn’t “hateful” but graffiti explaining this is what’s happening is. I enjoy living in this alternate universe where words don’t mean anything and all criticism of genocidal govts are, themselves, a form of racism, even apparently anti-German “hate”
A hateful message was spray-painted on the German consulate in downtown Los Angeles on Monday morning. Multiple people were seen trying to scrub and powerwash the messages off the walls. Full story: ktla.com/news/local-new…
Why is this guy so obsessed with defending the murder of children? Serious question.
There’s a new movement in town: Posh Twats for Palestine. These are the plummy leftists and annoying they/thems whose entire personality is hating Israel. They’re the most annoying people in Britain, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/UhxI4SV
More than 100 aid agencies say mass starvation is spreading across Gaza, but Israel says they are seeing no sign of famine. Who to believe? Global humanitarian organisations or a genocidal apartheid regime led by someone wanted for using starvation as a weapon of war.
International journalists have been refused independent access into Gaza for last 21 months. There are Palestinian journalists inside Gaza who’ve been working in extreme conditions and many of them and their families have been killed by Israeli forces
Didn’t you say journalists weren’t allowed into Gaza ? 🤷🏼♂️
Male life expectancy in Glasgow is also 73, meaning if the pension age were to rise to 74 that the average Glaswegian man wouldn't even claim a state pension. There's massive class injustices in these proposals, including the forms of work we'd be asking folk to do in their 70s.
State pension age could rise to 74. Male life expectancy in areas such as Blackpool is 73 years. Something needs to change.
This doctor’s crime was writing an oped for the New York Times and speaking to western media. For that he is being relentlessly tortured.
🚨 Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, head of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, has lost a third of his body weight in Israeli detention — surviving on just two spoonfuls of rice a day, according to his lawyer. She was recently granted access to see him at Ofer prison and reports: ▪️…
This story is so dystopian, using anti-terror legislation to arrest a man for holding up a cartoon from a beloved national magazine at a peaceful demo. I really lost it though when the police got the suspect's name after finding his "senior bus pass" theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Been watching the By Donkeys crew get jokerfied over the last two years, that this softly softly protest has got them arrested says everything about the proscription and its ramifications. But good on them, genuinely.
🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
"The figure that will be in the mind of so many people watching right now is the figure of small boat crossings" Rather than water bosses pay. Or BPs profits. Or how much richer billionaires have become over just 5yrs. Thats why they want us thinking about small boat crossings
The arrogance, impunity, corruption, racism and callousness (at best, arguably more like murderousness) of our political class summed up in a single word. The unintended masterpiece of a much-feted "orator"
finally made my debut on the new york post as the face of gen z zohran supporters 🔥🔥🔥 we did it jo!!!
6 in 10 Gen Zers like ‘socialism’ — no wonder they’re hoodwinked by Zohran Mamdani trib.al/OUgiKAl
Calling aid distribution in Gaza “a great success,” when the world can see aid seekers being mowed down and dying of starvation, is sick
I remember that day. We heard news reports that a suicide bomber had been shot dead on the tube. As the day went on the details got murkier and murkier. I remember thinking: surely they can't have just executed some random member of the public?
Twenty years ago today, Jean Charles de Menezes was assassinated at Stockwell station. Head of the Met Police, Ian Blair, was made a Lord. Cressida Dick, who led the operation, was promoted to Blair's position.
Shocking statement about how the journalists the world has been relying on for images and reports about what’s going on in Gaza are slowly dying of starvation @AFP 🧵
Wrote this with Zack Polanski. Shot it at dawn on Seven Sisters. The ‘boats’ narrative has taken hold of this country. This film fights back. August 1st. Vote bold.
⏳ Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
"the Israeli army shot at the desperate people looking for aid for their families. 79 people were killed.. these are incidents we see every day. I have no words to describe the shameful humanity we are witnessing every single day" Caroline Willemen from @MSF speaking from Gaza
In Poplar and Limehouse, we are clear: refugees are welcome here. In the face of relentless demonisation and targeting, we continue to stand with migrants for their rights to safety and dignity. It’s the far-right and their hateful ideology that are not welcome here.
You could see it, for a moment. A look of shame etched on @DavidLammy’s face. He won’t state that Israel is committing a single war crime, because that imposes legal obligations on him. His private shame won’t stop him being held accountable for complicity in genocide.
Spoke to the Foreign Secretary this morning about the situation in Gaza - here's a brief clip...
“Until then, starve away” A sitting Republican member of Congress. Depraved. Just depraved.
Release the hostages. Until then, starve away. (This is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.)