"On the day I visited, men were waiting outside two GP surgery rooms to get blood tests done, with the promise of a consultation to discuss the results two weeks later." Everyone - gym rats, recreation drugs users - gets blood tests from their GP. Everyone, except trans people.

Who put 50 cents in the dickhead?

There will have been around 30,000 UK-born and around 6,000 foreign-born *eligible* voters. It is entirely implausible that this is why Reform lost (by 5000). It is plausible it increased the Green majority - probably by about 3000 voters

Social media posts have claimed a video shows explosions in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, with some saying it’s an Iranian missile attack. But the footage is unrelated to the current Middle East conflict. It actually shows explosions in China in 2015.

Pete Hegseth praises Israel "unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands & clutch their pearls, hemming & hawing about the use of force" We shouldn't be helping the US in its illegal war. We should be standing up for ourselves & kicking US troops out of the UK

Reform are a bunch of crybabies who need to accept that democracy involves losing quite often. Their petty whinging is surely intensely off-putting to potential voters

I don't know how he did it, but this tribute to Paul Conroy @reflextv.bsky.social by @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social managed to make me laugh and cry at the same time bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/p...

America.

“‘When I heard the news, I was completely heartbroken – as were my friends, team-mates, and opponents’, Lily said. ‘It was so upsetting to be ripped away from playing for the team I’d been part of for so long.” https://goodlaw.social/qrw2

Reform UK has been reported to the Electoral Commission for possible campaign overspend in the Gorton and Denton by election.

Starting now Rhun ap Iorwerth is speaking on stage at the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk stream online via the link below

Fir balance Scotland the BBC irnae obsessed with Ferries, honest.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK just got a bit smaller today: ethically, morally and in its values. As it embraces the expansion of performative cruelty as govt policy. What a cowardly, craven, unprincipled lot the current politicians are who make up this Labour Govt are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sorry mate, but that’s not a scandal. A scandal is more like when an MP is seen with Eddy Butler, a former BNP activist and founder member of Nazi group Combat 18.

Pete Hegseth: "If you kill Americans.. anywhere on earth we will hunt you down without apology & without hesitation and we will kill you" When are you going to start hunting down and killing ICE then?

'Your party has targeted British Indian voters in recent years, why is that any different?’

Farage's Reform bandwagon has stalled & beginning to go into reverse. There is a clear ceiling to Farage's support of abt 30% in the polls & the increasingly radicalised & racist language from Reform & successive failure to win by-elections is having a detrimental impact.

The making of modern Scotland | David McCrone, Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity, Edinburgh University Press, review by Alex Law bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/02/t...

Islamophobic meme wars MAGA and UK offshoots in Reform desperately trying to connect Trump’s war against Iran with domestic British Muslim communities. But they are 85% Sunni and the 15% Shia is filled with Iranians who fled the Ayatollahs. It’s just racist ignorance, isn’t it?

It’s just one cock up after another with Labour We need to leave #VoteSNP

Breaking news: the UK has annexed Cyprus* *according to Labour MP Calvin Bailey

Farage embracing the pro-Trumpian world & US-Israeli attack on Iran. Not surprising given Farage and his gang's slavish devotion to the Trump regime & view of the world. Hardly standing up for UK interests!

How does Nigel Farage know that Green voters in Gorton and Denton don't have jobs... Oh of course he doesn't

After their Gorton and Denton defeat, Reform have announced plans to massively restrict postal voting and only allow British citizens to vote.

@elliechowns.bsky.social : "In 2020 Starmer said he did not think the UK should enter into military action without a legal justification, without a clear goal & without parliamentary approval. None of those conditions are in place now. Indeed, it is an illegal war led by a war criminal"

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not content with Brexit harm, Reform plans pensions raid

Pete Hegseth: "If you kill Americans.. anywhere on earth we will hunt you down without apology & without hesitation and we will kill you" Unless the American is killed by Israelis in the occupied West Bank, in which case we'll do nothing while we continue arming your killers.

French study reveals that Trump only uses 200 words - same as a toddler!

When they use phrases like “defensive strike” or “preemptive” the are other words for aggression and attack. Such language serves one purpose, to soften up the public for undesirable and unwanted military action. We are are not, we were never under attack. Now the chances have increased

Yvette Cooper (who backed the Iraq War) is asked what lessons we've learnt from Iraq Cooper: ".. this threat from Iranian nuclear weapons" Among other things Chilcot found the govt deliberately exaggerated the threat as a pretext for war The govt are doing it all over again

Nigel Farage to 'rig the rules' in elections with Trumpian plans to restrict who can vote and ban postal votes after by-election defeat. People with indefinite leave to stay will lose the right to vote. The elderly, disabled and busy people will be disenfranchised.

"using Palantir’s software would increase dependence on a U.S. provider. It also poses the risk of losing data sovereignty and thereby national sovereignty. "Above all, however, the army’s staff experts say it remains unclear who has access to data shared with Palantir."

"John Maguire is outside RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.. which is one of those sites likely to be used by the US for defensive actions" Stop using the language of the UK govt - 'defensive actions'. This base in Gloucestershire will be used to bomb Iran.

Reading this prompted me to read about Reform UKs "patriotic” curriculum in schools. Lessons about British or European imperialism “must be paired with the teaching of a non-European occurrence of the same to ensure balance." Where transgender "ideology" will be banned.

A new sculpture honouring the contribution of Thomas Donohoe, originally from Busby, East Renfrewshire, credited with first introducing football to Brazil in 1894, is officially unveiled by Provost Mary Montague in 2022. The sculpture can be found on Busby's Main Street.

He doesn't fill me with confidence.

Can we finally bury any notion that the "legitimate concerns" about immigration relate to "integration". This proposal makes integration practically impossible.

Whenever I post content like this, Labour supporters block me. Instead, why not face up to the topic and tell us why you think Scotland would be better off remaining under Westminster rule.

The foreign secretary condemning "the scale of the Iranian attacks over the weekend" and the fact that airspace is closed because of those attacks. Brazen.

Yvette Cooper says its appalling that Iran has retaliated to being attacked and she calls on them to stop retaliating. Yes, really.

So we attacked Iran because people were protesting. People were protesting in the US and were murdered by ICE.

Lost a war in Venezuela, lost a war in Iran, where is Donald Trump going to lose next?

The world needs more of this.... #StopWar

This is sadly true.

Gee, no shit

Our thought and prayers are with Richard and Isabel at this difficult time.

Is Barron signing up?

"All the US is doing is showing the next generation of Iranians that the US is a vicious Government that goes around bombing children, we are fighting the Epstein Class that rape little girls or bomb little girls."