Tony Smith

Find me on the light side at @smithtonyd.bsky.social

NEW: Brand Brum: Birmingham features in Top 100 World Cities ranking cc @lewis_goodall @SmithTonyD ipsos.com/en/london-take…

Well if the Guardian is leaving that’s good enough reason for me… theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

Schools in England could be judged on scale of colours in Ofsted proposals theguardian.com/education/2024…

UK’s unhealthy food habits cost £268bn a year, report finds theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

@AdrianFaiers Redesign the system so that it creates a better distribution of resources rather than fixing the distribution after with clumsy tax and spend…

@SmithTonyD I might have made wrong assumptions about what you mean by pre-distribution. What do you mean?

First, increasing reliance on private and workplace pensions drove everyone to support profit-maximising capitalism, now the creation of pension mega funds will coerce people to support this government's utter dependence on relentless, unsustainable growth. #BBCBreakfast #R4Today

#bbcaq Can't we have better palliative care as well as assisted dying? Let dying people choose how they want the end of their life to be.

…and legislation on important moral principles should not be passed or rejected on the basis of how well equipped our public services happen to be. If the bill is passed it will have to be implemented. #bbcaq

It’s just a diversion to say there’s not been enough debate. As the caller says we’ve been debating this forever - and Parliamentary bills do not pass on one vote, there are many stages. I think MPs and peers need to finally bite the bullet and get on with it. #bbcaq

He’s still not listening. Investment leads to gains - it’s not a “cost”. #bbcaq

Matthew Elliot sits at the nexus of a group of “hard Brexit” campaigners closely linked to the UK’s climate science deniers and other anti-regulation think tanks. desmog.com/matthew-elliot… #bbcaq

Exactly - green energy is cheap energy #bbcaq

No Matthew - running ahead is an opportunity not a threat. Stop seeing net zero as a negative - it’s a massive positive if we manage the transition right. The alternative is head in the sand extinction. #bbcaq

@Valeryan13 Oh god don’t remind me of that - it will be excruciating 😣

@SmithTonyD I imagine he’ll be back for the inauguration.

Hurrah! 🥳 #r4today

Did it not occur to Webb that the congress woman may have removed her pronouns from X because of abuse from people with the sort of views now tolerated on here? He says America is “relaxed” - what about the millions who will be terrified? 🙄 #r4today

Well said Paddy “blame others for shortening the programme”… indeed. #Newsnight

@TrevorWeehuizen He’s brilliant on radio 4…

The beginnings of a return to sanity on our relationship with the EU… #Newsnight

This (in the US) is not serious government. It’s the exercise of personal diktat for its own sake. Step one towards fascism. #Newsnight