At this rate, Labour will not only run out of potential voters but also candidates it seems. (View of articles with the Green Party tag on the BBC News app). #green #uk #ukpolitics #politics #greenparty #labour

I think about the Gulf Stream a lot when I’m cold, like it could always be worse, but god has it been chilly lately.

We’re still an absolute skeleton crew of 14 people, competing with teams sometimes 100x as large as ours. To get to our humble team size was only possible through the less than 1% community members who donate to Mastodon, a handful larger donations, & EU grants, all of which we are forever […]

£2 million in assets but can’t afford £2,500 a year? Cut back on your avocado and toast? It’s not the government’s fault you are that financially inept. #uk #ukpol #scotland #greens

Labour fell embarrassingly short of delivering anything resembling a wealth tax but thanks to the #greens the pressure isn’t going anywhere. The only argument against it is “but they’ll leave” as if their properties are being shipped off with them. Let every single hoarder leave, You’re so […]

I boost, therefore I am.

Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting. Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth? For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today

Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms. Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate. We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today

Green Party (of England & Wales) membership stood at around 68,000 when @ZackPolanski became leader & in not even 3 months, the party’s membership has increased by over 100,000 people! That is not just a monumental shift, we are seeing the first signs of a literal restructuring of #uk politics […]

UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/11/uk-government-will-buy-tech-to-boost-ai-sector-in-130m-growth-push/ Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware Just in time to watch the […]

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Britain claiming its border security is under threat after threatening the border security of practically every country to have ever existed is a dog whistle and a distraction. Those with a fraction of your political rights are not the enemy, it’s the ones manipulating you into thinking so.

I miss George Square. #glasgow #scotland

This DJ is playing all pop chart number 2’s to protest sewage dumping in the Lake District 👏🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/14/lake-district-sewage-pollution-dj-radio-protest-number-twos?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Banrigh na Gorta an Lìte. Uinneagan an-aghadh sgrios-cinnidh. The Famine Queen in Leith. Windows against genocide. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Leith #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Edinburgh #Scotland #politics #photography #Palestine #genocide #mastodaoine

#barcelona 😍 What a beautiful, colorful city ☀️

Seen that archived 1959 video on Glasgow’s Housing from the BBC on YouTube. The stigma around social housing (whether it’s schemes here or khrushyevkas that dominate ex-Soviet countries) is so silly, you just need to ask where would we be if these massive housing developments were not […]

Not to take away from Mamdani but just on standing unapologetically. This is exactly the same as Labour UK collapsing despite morphing into Reform with Greens benefiting under Polanski in being unapologetically left wing. From: @QasimRashid https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115505677920681804

Abnegation had it right in #divergent in rejecting mirrors & vanity. Like as a species, we were only meant to catch our reflections in the odd pond or river, we are not built for all the anxieties we have invented to accompany us in this age.

How much money is being set alight and detonated over the city right now? Is it worth it like

If you saw a person look at their watch and then immediately look at their phone for the time, is that an argument for living in a simulation or is that behaviour so human it wouldn’t be able to be synthetically occur?

If a day comes where I don’t cry for your loss I hope it’s because we are playing with the ball again. 3 months on has felt like an eternity, the cold weather makes the home feel even emptier, I’d like to think he took the summer with him. #dogsofmastodon

Despite being in Scotland, I benefited from the EU’s Social Fund via a foundation apprenticeship which allowed me to spend time both at school & college. Despite not progressing along those course lines (finance), I feel that it benefited me greatly in building independence to manage my life […]

#SilentSunday #scotland

Conservatives are fundamentally antisocial in that they rely on stripping the government of its funding and power in order to absolve themselves of any resonsiblities they have for our society.

Most of the Scottish Parliament’s achievements are to do with mitigating the harm caused by Westminster (nationalising railways, free tuition, UC biweekly, Social Security Scotland, EMA for students, NHS free at point of need including prescriptions) just imagine what an independent Scotland […]

46 Businesses in #scotland fined £400k+ for failing to pay minimum wage. The top of 5 offfenders include: - Crieff Hydro (4 star hotel) failed to pay nearly £34k to 131 workers - J. Puddleducks Childcare failed to pay £30k to 62 workers. - Mr James D Oakden & Mrs Frances, Hay Smith failed to […]

Zack Polanski is a great face for greens UK-Wide. What a delight it is to see somebody who’s fighting unapologetically for the people! Under his leadership green membership has already surpassed the Liberal Democrats and even the T*ries. It makes me so happy to see a party for the progressive […]

We've been issued actual merch by CyclingUK, the whole women-led, lit-up mass night ride phenomenon is escalating 😍 #OurStreetsOurNights #myrideourright

Just over a week to go! Less than that, for the many women-led groups converging on October 22nd as the date to light up their bikes and occupy their local streets as a cycling mass We like to be different of course, we ride on Friday 24th October, meet 7:30pm […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Help an intersectional feminist collective in #glasgow find a venue! I really admire the folk behind this to set up a permanent space to continue their projects (sober events, art sessions, pop-up stalls for small local businesses!) Sharing means as much as donating! On Crowdfunder specifically […]

Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth! Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day Space is so big and we are so tiny :blobcatgiggle:

The headlines read that Palestinians return “home” but still yet to see any footage that proves this. What is home? It’s not the cities or towns that they came from, because they’re unrecognisable rubble. Seeing all those families returning to where they were shot & herd from like animals, I […]

Yesterday, I got to publish, on my website, an updated version of my Melbourne train and Tram map showing services from early December – including MetroTunnel. I got to publish that map from the VANA exercise book. And it’s real. (8/12) https://railmaps.com.au/melbourne_draft.htm

Melbourne #metrotunnel is special to me. And with yesterday’s announcement, I want to now tell you why, in a thread. I love rail maps. Inspired by Beck’s London Underground diagram since a youngster, I've long thought every big city needs a map and an UndergrounD just like London (1/12)

Here, have some architecture. Here's an old shot of the interior of the Basilica di Sant'Andrea in Mantua by (mostly) Alberti. It's not really my kind of thing, most of the time, but there's no denying the visual impact of, and rigour put into, all that […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

We ride again! Save the date, October 24th, our traditional Friday night #OurStreetsOurNights ride, meet 7:30pm at Middle Meadow Walk This year, the campaigning charity CyclingUK are helping groups across the UK to organise mass rides to call for better […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

The Labour Government will tax anything but wealth. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reeves-taxi-tax-budget-vat-b2830780.html

I miss the prospect of high speed rail in the UK, rip #hs2

The man in charge of the United Kingdom’s Foreign Affairs doesn’t know his own fishing laws. Lol #politics #uk #ukpol#uk#politicsttps://news.sky.com/story/david-lammy-refers-himself-to-watchdog-after-fishing-with-jd-vance-13411064

Bit annoying for folk having to wait at top of stairs for disembarking passengers before being able to make their way down to the platform, granted, this is only a problem during busier hours where the frequency of trains is quite good. Does just make me think […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Glasgow’s Largest Mural 🖼️

It’s crazy how much pushback there is from a ‘Labour’ party on introducing any form of ‘wealth tax’ whilst being so swift to propose cutting any form of benefits. Just shows whose interest they’re working in. The candidates that left Labour to stand as independents were extremely brave to […]

For #Fensterfreitag this week, I'm particularly missing Milo and Lyra. A home without the cats who defined so much of it for 16+ years feels so very incomplete. They were so small, yet it's somehow empty without them.

Rest in Peace baby. Took him to vets only for them to operate and say it wouldn’t be fair to resuscitate him, forced to say goodbye to his body after the procedure, I can’t help but wish I held him tighter and longer before going in. I didn’t know that was […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

What’s everyone’s fave #wikipedia page? Mine is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022

As an immigrant, I’ve never understood the British mentality of we need to control immigration when its own diaspora is all over the globe?