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Stephen Smith

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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

Joined April 2010

Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Jul 5, 2024
Every single broadcaster cutting away from Jeremy Corbyn as he was about to give his victory speech to cover Nigel Farage is the past decade in British politics in a nutshell
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Jun 6, 2025
SAM FENDER SAYS FREE PALESTINE to 80,000 concert goers at the Olympic Stadium
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Dec 22, 2023
You’ve decided an entire race of people are anti-feminist and anti-gay?
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Aug 3, 2025
Nick Tyrone
@NicholasTyrone
Aug 3, 2025
The politically fatal move the British left made was making Jeremy Corbyn their presumptive saviour. If they’d picked someone much more serious, who knows, they might have had a shot.
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Jul 2, 2024
Incredible it takes Scottish media to report this
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Aug 6, 2024
I’m going to say UK journalism
The Guardian
@guardian
Aug 6, 2024
England riots: how has ‘two-tier policing’ myth become widespread? theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Jul 5, 2024
Ed Balls on ITV ventriloquising Starmer team said Duncan-Smith winning was “a price worth paying” for keeping Faiza Shaheen out of parliament. If you ever wondered where their political priorities lie
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Mar 22, 2024
This would have been front page news for a week if Corbyn had made a gaffe like forgetting 9-11, during which you’d be able to turn on the news channels and watch a livestream of journos crowded outside his home front door
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@jrc1921
Mar 21, 2024
Starmer describes the events of 7th October as 'the worst terrorist attack since the Second World War'
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
May 15, 2021
Life comes at you fast, FA Cup final edition
Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Feb 15, 2023
It’s amazing how Labour have calculated they will never need these voters, or all the people these voters could influence in the future
Marlon Kameka
@MarlonKameka
Feb 15, 2023
FUCK KEIR STARMER!
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Sep 17, 2025
Genuinely incredible she was head of Labour Friends of Palestine when it suited her career rising up through the party ranks. If unprincipled politicians couldn’t disgust you any more
Sky News
@SkyNews
Sep 17, 2025
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy MP says 'it is for the courts to decide' whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, after a UN Commission report made the allegation. trib.al/Y9BPMAC 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Feb 21, 2025
Corbyn getting 40% in a General Election with only the support of these backstabbers was probably one of the most remarkable achievements in postwar British politics
BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics
Feb 21, 2025
"Absolutely bonkers" Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander tells @bbcnickrobinson what it was like being in former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet Listen to #PoliticalThinking in full on @BBCSounds bbc.in/3Qrj9e3
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Apr 12, 2024
This is a classic example of how Corbyn tried to build a Broad Church with the Labour Right to unite the party, he hated Trident but the Labour Right told him it was vital and he said, “OK, I’m a consensual leader”. His reward was for the Labour Right to lie about him eternally
Saul Staniforth
@SaulStaniforth
Apr 12, 2024
"Keir Starmer.. he's committing Labour to spending on Trident... this is a contrast to the approach Jeremy Corbyn took" 2017 Manifesto "Labour supports the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent" 2019 Manifesto "Labour supports the renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent"
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Stephen Smith
@SteveNickSmith
Sep 14, 2021
How can you be to the right of a Met Gala dress
Angela Rayner
@AngelaRayner
Sep 14, 2021
Pay rises not tax rises.