Sofia Smith

Remember the days when people in public office would resign over any mildly dishonourable behaviour as the right thing? #DominicCummings

@Heretixx66 @QcWynter It makes no sense to say “just the details” because “details” are exactly that- specific & detailed. It would make more sense to say “just a summary/ top line”. To put “just” with “details” is a strange non sequitur & why would friends use this odd formulation as well as family?

@QcWynter Is he one of those people who tend to go around the houses when they impart information.

Speaking to an old friend yesterday - a very bright chap - he told me about the one scar that he carries from childhood. Whenever he was asked by friends or family to say or explain something, it would come with the request, "just the details". Haunts him still at the age of 66.

#Starmer should be embarrassed by this. A fair observation and a fair question but again no answer & “pre-scripted nonsense”. What has happened to our democracy? #PMQs #Labour #Mandelson #PrimeMinister

@soulsexpert @Variety The Bridesmaids stuff was pointless and unfunny. It added nothing - instead these people were very rudely deprived of their once in a lifetime opportunity to thank & acknowledge. Worse as they were speaking in a foreign language. @TheAcademy has its priorities fucked up #Oscars

@Variety You guys wasted more than 10 minutes to celebrate that Brides Maids trash and want to talk about time?

The executive producer of the #Oscars explains why the orchestra cut off the "KPop Demon Hunters'" "Golden" songwriters during their speech. "One thing, as we post mortem for next year, will be to look at how we’re handling speeches. You win the Oscar, you know you go on stage, it could be one person, it could be five or six. Immediately you’ll see the sort of allotted time we have for them. Do we need to look at it and say, okay, designate one person to speak. Maybe you continue it backstage, and we have a feed on social or something like that." "We look at everything and figure out what is the most elegant solution, because it is difficult, especially when you’re cutting somebody off and it’s their one moment. We talk about it at the award luncheon, that you have this designated time to speak, and it’s difficult. I don’t know what the most elegant solution is, but it’s obviously something we should look really, really long and hard at." variety.com/2026/tv/news/o…

@mumzles1 @JacquiDeevoy1 @JambiNumbski @jason_a69 Books are required to be rescanned automatically if they show up as paper wads (thick or 2+ together) because concern is they could be or concealing wads of cash notes (currency smuggling). I know this as it happened to me so I asked about it. Now I take the books out of the bag.

@JacquiDeevoy1 @JambiNumbski @jason_a69 They’re not wrong (I say this as a fellow 20th century person)

Dear airport experts, I’d be very grateful if you could explain airport security to me again. I watch 20 or more people go through but I’m the only one told to remove my shoes. Every time. Meanwhile, the bottle of water in my handbag isn’t spotted. They make you take off your coat, your jacket, your belt yet the body scanner can see through all that. They unpack my tightly packed rucksack and scan two books with a hand-held scanner. Then tell me to repack. Why? The weight of hand luggage is limited, as is the number of bags. Yet, airside, you can buy as much stuff as you want - any weight in any number of bags - and take it on the plane. Yours sincerely, Baffled of Heathrow

The Strait of Hormuz = “the vital waterway” @BBCNews @ 2.30pm today Broadcast news getting in on the @secondmentions action.

@akshay_puj18850 @naiivememe I wouldn’t be able to sleep a wink imagining all the things (serial killers!) hiding in the pitch black wood at night. All the rustling. The animals. Who the fuck knows what. & no body will hear you scream… 😱

@sofiaxsmith @naiivememe Yeah maybe 🧐

The older I get, the more I understand this man

@doydeb10 I think Teyana Taylor (never heard of her til I saw crazy ‘bad loser’ leaping up clapping vid) must have been high, on drugs rather than drunk. V erratic behaviour-got in a red carpet row about shoving, mad clapping & then this- putting P T Anderson in a choke hold!!! #Oscars

Okay is Teyana Taylor high? Her behavior is unusual #oscar

@akshay_puj18850 @naiivememe Or peak “serial killers come and murder me”!

@naiivememe Yeah bro same, 30 hits different that house is peak “leave me alone” energy

@HRHCatherine Reminds me of Oscar Wilde “the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”. The only thing worse than being an assassination risk is having no one interested in assassinating you! #PrinceHarry can’t accept he is irrelevant to Royal family’s seat of power

Holy crap, Prince Harry thinks he ‘risked assassination’ by using a train in England. He is utterly deranged.

@goonerterry @piersmorgan You are wrong. Being arrested is enough. No need to be charged for contempt laws to apply. See Contempt of Court Act 1981 s.2 & definition of “active” Sch 1 paras 2 to 4 . “The initial steps of criminal proceedings are:— (a) arrest without warrant;” legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/49

@sofiaxsmith @piersmorgan He hasn’t been charged so your point is incorrect

Why on earth was this entirely accurate joke censored? Ridiculous.

Dubai = “the beleaguered golden emirate” #secondmentions @secondmentions @camillalong in The Times thetimes.com/comment/column…

@pjcnet15 @Askrigg_lad What utter nonsense. Objecting to massive buildings that are places of worship for foreign religion is not “Islamophobic”. It’s objecting to active promotion of a foreign religion & culture. You can have a tolerant society without encouraging more of it . Mosque in the Vatican?

@Askrigg_lad A place for worship for the Muslim families of Furness General Hospital staff, who currently use Barrow Cricket Club for prayer meetings. Nothing wrong with that unless you're Islamophobic. Artist impression of completed building:

This is the massive mosque that, for some reason, is being built in our beautiful Lake District. No one, other than muslims, would be allowed to destroy our countryside in this way. Whoever authorised this eyesore should be arrested and locked up for a VERY long time.

@WeirdMedieval @HiddenYorkshire I think it’s more likely that mermaids & dragons came via Chinese whispers. There were no cameras. Someone describing a seal/crocodile/Komodo dragon to person who’d never seen one who then describes it to another etc. it’s not hard to see ‘2 flippers like arms’ becoming ‘arms’.

@HiddenYorkshire YES same with the whole dragons/giants came from people seeing fossils and vampires came from people seeing hair/nails grow after death and every other silly theory of that kind

ANOTHER THING I HATE is the idea that mermaids originated from sailors mistaking seals for women. I think people are a lot more complex than that. Can a seal look like a woman? Sure. But these are people who could navigate across oceans by the stars. They weren't stupid.

@QcWynter It’s not a racist comment anyway to observe that over representation in adverts is not accurately representative of the real demographic percentages.

I may consider Dawn Butler to be stupid but even on these pages would restrict myself to saying that Dawn Butler has said stupid things. The difference is not hard to understand. Like the difference between telling a child, "you are a disappointment" & "you have disappointed me".

@wallaceme Quite. & a government website! Bear in mind Lloyds bank this week had a major failure - customers logging onto the app were seeing strangers details. We can be sure a commercial private bank have more money to invest in tech security than our government. #DigitalID anyone? Nope.

Good lord.

@neil45106205 @MartinSLewis Lawyers. Always take a screenshot. Evidence. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.

@MartinSLewis Love the person in the article quoted as saying that they could see someone else’s transactions and took screenshots - who’s first thought when they know the details they can see are not theirs is to screenshot 🫣

Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland "I saw someone else's transactions" issue update including some key checks to protect yourself from fraud, and the fact we're hearing a (very) few people being offered compensation... moneysavingexpert.com/news/2026/03/l…

@kopkl @TerribleJyon @NightlifeMingus Come on Eileen! #DexysMidnightRunners

@TerribleJyon @NightlifeMingus *pizza music stops*

my girlfriend found a ‘how to draw’ book from 1939 and in the racial stereotypes section (seriously) we found this guy, and he’s got us stumped. what is this supposed to represent? apologies if this happens to be extremely offensive but I don’t know who I am offending

The Two-Faced Gentlemen of Verona #SlipperyScripts @pun_who #SlipperyScripts

The Last Slip (RIP & with great respect to Eric Dane who was fantastic in #TheLastShip - worth watching if you haven’t seen it. S1 & 2 are the best) #SlipperyScripts @pun_who

The Life and Times of Henry the Tersigervateth #SlipperyScripts @pun_who