So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...

I was born in the East End nearly 60 years ago now. And I always tell people how rotten a lot of London was, dirty, run down, still scarred from WW2. So many areas people think of as posh or wealthy were filled with squats and derelict properties.

Scary but true

Anyone heard what Scotland's next first minister Sarwar has to say about this👇🏼?

David Ellison reportedly told Trump he’d make “sweeping changes” to CNN if Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. gets approved. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy. Corruption on display.

The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.

Similar thing happens with Wales' supplying water to England Seven Trent gets a 252million litres a day that it sells to their customers Wales gets basically nothing in return for it And Wales' water bills are insane because of this Scotland & Wales should be fairly compensated for their resources

That this even needs saying to any UK government let alone a Labour one led by a former human rights lawyer is astonishing …….and deplorable. @stellacreasy.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @sarahhall-labour.bsky.social @peterprinsleymp.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

The unedifying sight of a human rights lawyer attacking human rights. Pathetic

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.

The blatant framing of UK politics by #BBC continues unabated with a #bbcqt special on immigration in Dover. An editorial decision by the programme. No special programme on the economy, the cost of living crisis or the NHS.

I’ll leave this👇here Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

On the bright side, Starmer's Labour hasn't announced a ban on abortion, introduced conscription, publicly burned books, banned opposition parties, invaded France or sterilised the poor. So, there's a way to go yet... 😬

Australia is giving away electricity for free to bill payers, because they've got so much renewable energy available. The national grid is privately owned, the owners should be upgrading it. #bbcpm

Trump hates Europe’s democracies because they have universal health care, a strong social welfare system and heavy unionization. He prefers MBS’s Saudi Arabia, where one trillionaire family runs a brutal dictatorship. What a betrayal of American values!

That is some decision in the Sandie Peggie case. I’m going to learn a lot from reading it. In the meantime it is clear that there has been enormous misreporting by the media. They seem to have read only the opening paras of the judgment or else a biased press release. On the law, Sandie Peggie lost.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:

Nigel Farage's former campaign staffer, who accused him of breaking electoral law, was expelled by Reform for allegedly keeping sex toys in Farage’s Clacton office. (Telegraph) ???There’d been an oversized cock in there since the start.

Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Scotland produces a THIRD of all of The UK's Food and Drink Exports. There's only a tiny 8% of the entire UK Population, in Scotland. We make other Countries in the UK look like their laughably inept. That's why no MP wants English Independence! Why on EARTH is Scotland not ALREADY Independent?

Thatcherism still drives Labour (and Tory etc) economic thinking too. "Affordable" is a bit of a neoliberal description. I'd say let's embrace Modern Money theory and move away from these outdated household budget analogies.

So Labour can moan about Greens being unrealistic as much as they want, but who is the bigger fantasist: the people who know the house is on fire and something radical is needed? Or the people saying "this is fine" as the roof falls in?

Also, BBC Scotland & many MSP's are always more than happy to use trans people as an excuse to bash the Scottish Gov. It's horrible.

The United States gives far too much power, money, and influence to silly people with heads full of nonsense.

Our media's reporting of trans issues is poisonous, unhinged, a betrayal by those who pretend to report impartially, and shamefully reminiscent of other hate propagandising throughout the last century. I'm surprised to see it in the UK but I need to learn that it is, since Brexit, just who we are.

You know, infuriating and a shameful betrayal though the BBC and other media's misreporting of the Sandie Peggie judgment is, it also doesn't really matter. What matters is the judgment which lawyers will read, use to advise their clients, and inclusion will be the winner.

Republican talking point in case you missed it. They all say ,"I haven't seen or read the report or video". This is why we have to remind people today that in next November you vote against these assholes, who fucking don't give a shit about you and think you are moron.

My line of columns for The Herald will come to an end on Boxing Day, so I've little concern about bodying this now... This is not accurate. Peggie lost most of her claims against NHS Fife, and only partially won her harassment claim on process grounds.

Labour are attacking Greens. Fine. I have yet to see any party that has entirely affordable aspirations. But at least the Greens HAVE aspirations. Labour have seemingly decided the status quo cannot be touched, even when it doesn't work for 90% of people, or the viability of life on the planet.

People whose extreme obsession is amassing more money than anyone else surely have mental health issues. They need to be removed from harm's way. Taxing billionaires and limiting their harm to others should be their treatment.

Genuine question to Labour supporters out there. Are you actually happy with the direction Starmer & Co have taken the party? Because it feels like one hell of a lurch to the right, even compared to where the Blairites took it. Said this many times, Attlee, Benn, Bevin et al will be spinning.

This is the same Palantir that Labour is keen to sell off NHS data from England and Wales too. Scotland already has its own equivalent platform run by the SNP Scottish Government, not an American right wing owned organisation with ties to the the Israeli military.

Watch how under-reported this good news story unfolds in the unionist press & media. Great news for Prestwick & Scotland!✈️ Airbus has successfully completed its acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems sites, including Prestwick Aerosystems securing 3,000 Scottish jobs. bmmagazine.co.uk/news/airbus-...

I've almost run out of Motown puns; I have only three left... maybe four, tops.

Women who uphold the patriarchy and constantly demean feminism should not be online spouting their opinions on their own social media platforms. You shouldn’t have an opinion or a platform. Let your husband do that for you…

I can't help but remember that "it" is also the word used by the man who murdered poor Brianna Ghey in a transphobic attack. These people don't have "reasonable concerns" - they are revolting bigots.

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

She lost all bar one of her claims and that against NHSFife. She lost all her claims against Dr Upton. The judge had some very harsh words for Peggie, her lawyer and Forstater. Don't believe the spin the trans hating media put on this

bring back shame, combat vice signaling

An energy-rich Scotland must mean energy-rich Scots. We can’t allow Westminster to squander our energy wealth again.

We all know in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿the puppet will👇

Scottish Labour Party leader Anas Sarwar said: “We will not rejoin the Single Market or the Customs Union” Why?? It totally makes sense that Scottish Labour could have their own policy & preferences here that reflect their own country. What's Sarwar doing?

Trump has not, I repeat, has NOT ended 8 wars. It’s all bullshit except his claims regarding Israel and Gaza and that doesn’t hold up to close examination. Since the so-called “peace” (there is nothing formal) 350 Gazans and 3 Israeli soldiers have been killed

A more appropriate award

Drag him.

Of course they change their mind and move the goalposts with impunity once democracy threatens to deliver change.

Anyone remember how insufferable "Lord" Offord was on Debate Night etc and that's when he was a Tory? Now he's defected to Reform he'll be insufferable on steroids, but with added racism. Means he'll be running for a seat in Holyrood. Scotland doesn't need this. Vote #SNP1#Green2 Keep Unionist out

Too many folks and businesses are struggling with energy costs, all the more absurd when Scotland has so many resources. The UK has delivered a poor deal on energy, an independent Scotland won’t do it like this. #Scotland #Stirling #costofliving #independence #energy

TY, I truly hope we can turn this around as she doesn't want to leave the UK, which has so much going for it re acceptance of minorities. Such liberation on arrival here 10 years ago, which has sickeningly eroded...it really feels like we are sane in an insane world at the moment! Solidarity✊🏽 always