This is at least the third article the BBC has published this week asking whether Farage and Reform are right that "two tier" anti-white policing exists, despite the overwhelming evidence that it doesn't. Quite incredible www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbcs-t...

Odd that the question of ‘What does it mean to be #English?’ is now a hot topic of serious discussion in the media but next to zero engagement with the serious and longstanding work of @ailsahenderson.bsky.social & @richardwynjones.bsky.social on @theunionsurvey.bsky.social about it (1/3)

When I say that @amnestyuk.bsky.social have overlooked the obvious funding of Gender Critical activists by Christian groups and that these groups aren't actually distinct, here's the weekend's round up email from Christian Concern who are open about funding the GC Darlington Nurses tribunal.

The political and media failure to tell the truth about immigration is destroying this country Latest figures show immigration plummeting yet polling shows the public believe immigration to be rising Why? Because the media and politicians are corrupting the truth Me in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Our trial is officially on, starting next Tuesday. Help us beat the charges and win: tinyurl.com/katandre

Holyrood MRPs simply did not have a great record this year, and in addition to all of the points in this piece, the problem remains how they are presented by the media which no amount of careful methodological hedging and caveating by the firms doing them can prevent.

Given that Labour is trying to elect a leader capable of fighting Reform and the Greens at the same time, isn't it rather a good test if he has to do exactly that? If he can't, there's probably not a lot of point in him winning.

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

Videos of the DOGE staffers who gutted humanities funding using ChatGPT went viral. Now a federal judge has ruled that personnel didn’t have authority to terminate the grants. Kelsey Ables and Janay Kingsberry spoke to the plaintiffs:

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Maybe I've just missed it, but I haven't yet seen a Scottish news source say how much of the King's Speech will actually apply north of the border. I think: Europe, competition, civil aviation, asylum, nuclear, military and security, and peerages (?). Does that look right?

He's right, you know. It is.

Excited to share the BBS results page for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. True to form, there's going to be more data on here than you can shake a stick at, giving you the most in-depth rundown available anywhere! This will all update automatically throughout the day, so refresh often!

Great insight into elections in Wales and England and their likely impact

A reminder that if you appreciate my work - I have fit covering *three* polls around my day job today, am about to head off to be on Scotland Tonight, and will be doing MORE analysis the second I get home, please consider donating to support BBS here. Any support is immensely gratefully received!

I've been all over Glasgow today! So many people here are excited to vote for a fairer, greener & kinder Scotland 💚✊🗳️ In Glasgow and plenty of other regions the last seat may well come down to the @scottishgreens.org or Reform, so make sure to vote Green on your peach ballot!

Interesting as ever from BBS.

I wrote about the end of the Welsh Labour Century for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

America's enemies are laughing.

Fossil Fuels Are Not The Future….

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

I've still got a heap of analysis to do of these and to add them to the website on the relevant pages, but if you value the work I do on BBS even after a full day at my actual job and my usual Wednesday evening plans, you can pop a wee donation in to support my work here:

A reminder of the only good newspaper April Fool ever. One that I sort of wish was true. Alexander McCall-Smith's Edinburgh Underground.

New Scottish Parliament poll, Survation 16-23 Mar (vs 20-25 Feb): List: SNP ~ 32% (-1) RUK ~ 18% (+1) Lab ~ 17% (nc) Con ~ 13% (nc) Grn ~ 11% (+2) LD ~ 8% (-1) Constituency: SNP ~ 35% (-2) Lab ~ 19% (+1) RUK ~ 19% (+2) Con ~ 11% (-1) LD ~ 8% (-1) Grn ~ 8% (+2)

No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!

Well done. #NoKings

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

Sharp words from the Pope for leaders using God to justify war —

Thank goodness we've had *19* Westminster polls so far this month though! Whatever would we do without all of this polling for a parliament not due an election for years! (Yes, yes, there are reasons this is "easier" to do frequently: doesn't make it any less absurd and outrageous)

Anyone who reads this will be better informed and better prepared with a bullshit-detector at election time. Will is particularly strong on finance which is a feather in the cap since it’s an arcane and difficult topic✍️ Desmond Clifford wp.me/p8Mk4U-1hY9

Oddly reassuring. Consider the Greenland Shark www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Now you must pay to see the stuff we stole from you’

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

Next week: this year's Ballot Box Battlegrounds series, looking at the most marginal constituencies in Scotland in 2021 terms, plus some key seats just outside marginality, and a bonus round of "not marginal but you never know"

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

The Home Office is hiring staff from McDonalds and supermarkets to decide on refugee deportation cases. Staff know so little that some consult Lonely Planet guides to decide if a country is safe. Some can’t even find countries they’re returning people to on the map Inside the UK’s asylum system

At the moment, for every 100 English & Welsh voters intending on voting Reform at Westminster, only 72 Scots are doing likewise. Combining with the Conservatives it's 66 for the right. That's still a lot of votes, but it's still a huge relative gulf in backing that makes a meaningful difference.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

UK median annual wage for employees is £31,056. £25,880 after income tax and NIC. Graduates take home even less. Tax thresholds frozen since 2021. Millions can't afford to buy homes, start family or business. No govt curbs profiteering. Can't build sustainable economy without redistribution.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

Elon Musk is talking about Nigel Farage's Reform Party: he says Reform are trying to eradicate white people in Britain. He is a radicalised + increasingly racist lunatic - obsessed with theories of white racial extinction + promoting the idea of civil war in Britain www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

Cllr David Wimble, Reform Cabinet member for economic development at Kent County Council, says he might defund Margate's Turner Contemporary Gallery to spite the local MP Polly Billington.

Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: “We must integrate our market and use it as a weapon against the great imperial blocs.”

It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out #SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL "I was 14" "I was 16" "I was 16" "17" "14" "There are about a thousand of us" "It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows" "It's time to shine a light into the darkness" "Release all of the Epstein files"