The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵

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Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Balfron @eisunion.bsky.social members wearing RED in solidarity with colleagues facing precarious employment and unacceptable workloads. Scot Govt/COSLA must deliver promised 1.5-hour class contact time reduction. Stalling won't work: we launch statutory ballot for industrial action on 12 Nov #SU4QE

Farage built Brexit, and Brexit broke Britain. Nigel Farage is the cause of the mess we’re in - not the solution.

This is dangerous, reckless, anti-science nonsense. Paracetamol is safe to use and Nigel Farage should stop spreading misinformation.

The clincher, for me, is that what she did will be outlawed when the Renter’s Rights Bill comes in next year. It’s why the ‘didn’t break any rules’ defence falls short. Of course, Boris Johnson would have promoted her & borrowed the house for a year.

www.thenational.scot/news/2537175... This is beyond satire. She’s the homelessness minister FFS! And the people she evicted are her constituents!

They live in gold, we live in rust: why we must destroy the new Gilded Age Inequality in the west is now at the same level as Rome during slavery. We can’t go on like this. Unless we change peacefully, we risk violence My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

We will be properly honouring ‘Daniel Hannan Day’ on Tuesday with all the requisite pomp, circumstance & documentary evidence of what an irredeemable arse he is that you would expect. Elevating our world’s wrongest man to the House of Lords will always be the essence of Brexit. Do join us…

Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs. “You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.” “John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”

I see Reform Scotland has changed its name to the not at all pretentious 'Enlighten'. I wonder if they'll now be willing to enlighten us about who funds them?

The agenda of the Labour right was wicked in the 90s too, but at least Blair won elections for them. Now, Starmer’s hopeless, depressing approach is fuelling the rise of the far right and stamping out what remains of his party’s soul. Surely, Scotland’s ready for independence in Europe now?

The @heraldscotland.bsky.social education newsletter this week is about the consequences of the supreme court decision on kids across Scotland. It's probably my most-read article to far this year. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2509...

Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today. There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath. www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...

This is the group who got Roe overturned. The reason 10 year old rape victims have to flee state. The reason women sit in car parks until they are close enough to death.

May this grotesque little Marie-Antoinette and all of those like her taste the suffering of what real poverty means one day very soon web.archive.org/web/20250405...

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗳️Who are the Scots who intend to vote for Reform UK in next year's Holyrood election? I've dived into the tables for today's Survation poll to find out. TL;DR: they're probably exactly who you thought they were - relatively older, male, well-off, unionist Brexiteers. (1/5)

Fascism.

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

Jeez this is awful. Resolution Foundation warns changes to rules for PIP disability benefit could cost up to 1.2m people between £4,200 and £6,300 a year. What is this government thinking? Has it gone completely mad? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Tom Pollard Head of Social Policy New Economics Foundation

Waiting …

Starmer proves that whatever Labour once stood for is dead. Labour doesn’t offer change. The only alternative for Scotland to this failed status quo is independence My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social on how Labour now fuels Indy as much as the Tories did www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

The men sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison: - A tattoo artist seeking asylum who entered legally. - A teen who got a tattoo in Dallas because he thought it looked cool. - A 26-year-old whose tattoos his wife says are unrelated to a gang. - A barber whose family says he has no gang ties.

Fascinating.

Hi All. Sent this piece out last night, free to read. Hope is a bad thing when dealing with Trump. A literal killer. Best to dispense with it entirely and face the reality.

Trump is a traitor.

Several countries on the Eastern Flank of NATO are considering leaving the Ottawa Treaty, which bans anti-personnel mines. Yesterday, Finland and Poland both announced their intentions to leave the treaty in the coming weeks.

🇺🇦Supporters of Ukraine have unfurled the world’s largest Ukrainian flag on the White House ellipse, pushing for the U.S. to continue its aid against the Russian invasion: “Do not abandon Ukraine!”

Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.

“Frightened for the safety of their families.” America, 2025.

Just to be clear and so there can be no more denial. 1) The USA is now the enemy of Ukrainian Freedom 2) The USA is now the enemy of European Freedom 3) Anyone who supports Trump supports this 4) Europe alone will have to support Ukraine

The Americans cut and run from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. They couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag. Canadians are hard as nails. They should invade, annex the dump, install Jane Fonda as military governor and turn every red state into a giant maple syrup factory

War without Washington: Could Ukraine actually survive without Trump? My indepth read today- 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2497436...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

"Putin wants peace." That must be why he keeps attacking hospitals and residential houses across Ukraine. 📹Footage from inside the hospital in Kharkiv that was hit by Russian drones last night

The American govt is now on the side of Russia and an enemy of Europe The American govt represents the American people It speaks for all Americans If there are Americans who don’t want to be allies of Russia then stand up & do something about it If you don’t your silence is taken as acquiescence

It bears repeating.

Does America have any idea what people around the world are thinking of it tonight? Where are the protests? Where is the opposition? Heartbreaking to see a nation's moral collapse like this.

Sweden, France, Norway, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Ireland all backing Zelensky, where is UK's statement?

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

More class in his pinky than Trump has shown his entire life.

Still trying to figure out why Anas Sarwar approvingly referenced the extralegal project of a neo-Nazi in his speech to ScotLab conference today...

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