Of course it’s Foulkes. Of course.

Can't overstate how big a fan I am of Pommelien Thijs. She's my Taylor Swift or Harry Styles. Wild to see her get coverage like this in the NYT now.

Scottish high streets have seen an average increase in footfall, bucking the trend of decline seen across the rest of the UK

Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?

Darkly funny in a wtf sense of course but it’s worth taking stock that this is the most widely read political magazine in the country, a magazine intimately tied to the party that has held power for 2/3 of the past century, saying the only reason they aren’t killing liberals is it’s too much effort

I’ve said this before but if you’re supportive of trans rights you’re held responsible for every Twitter anon who says something mean to JoRo, meanwhile if you’re “gender critical” it’s fine to be in open coalition with far right racists and explicit trans eliminationists.

Watching the UK collapse into frothing far right conspiracism is the real decadence. Too many people letting it happen

operation branchform has been in the news for about 5 years. this is about the funniest attempt to dredge it i have seen yet.

If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

Two-tier Britain indeed.

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.

The BIGGEST SCANDAL in the history of British politics. Move over Profumo. Partygate? Small potatoes. What even is a “dodgy dossier” anyway?

Thanks to Chris Law for also adding his name to the motion to scrap the disastrous EHRC guidance. We are hoping to see more MPs signing on soon. 🙏

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

When we say they are coming for everyone's rights, we mean it. This was not hyperbole. The systems you think protect everyone only exist until we are inconvenient.

Another miscarriage of justice from the UK Supreme Court. An attack against the human rights of one protected characteristic is an attack against all. Solidarity to the disabled community.

Starting to think we may have a problem with the Supreme Court, especially its selection practices. Replace disability with modern slavery, domestic abuse or even date rape and tell me this sounds okay

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

This is an explicit admission from Bridget Phillipson that trans people should be made to use separate facilities from cis people.

*breaks fourth wall, Scottish politics-ly*

fellow glaswegians, why is the air so hot and wet, I hate it, kind regards

In my head it's still John Menzies

I dunno, I just think it might be a little bit newsworthy that a minister keeps saying people should alert staff when someone they suspect might be trans is using public services. bsky.app/profile/eliz...

I hate this government of cowardly bigots.

Because it's nonsense. The evangelicals began pumping money into the UK from 2013, after laying out a specific game plan which included, "using feminist sounding language to separate the T from the LGB". Most people simply did not care beforehand. A British soap had a positive trans character.

97 seconds was q u i t e enough scotpol bsky for one day

It probably says something about Scottish politics that Sturgeon's three biggest "scandals" are - cutting contact with her friend and mentor when she found out he was a sex pest - having a husband who was a crook - not suddenly u-turning on trans rights like every other mainstream politician did

credit where credit is due, glad to see a major party pushing back

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

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Post a photo from 2019 Oh to have that jawline back

Lecturer in Equality and Human Rights Law (R&T or LTS Track) University of Glasgow (fixed-term): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS345/l...

RIP Arthur Miller you’d have loved the McCrucible

Why anyone who isn’t a fascist is still on that site is beyond me. Delete your account.

it genuinely scares me how much rot is just everywhere now this didn't used to be normal! people didn't used to spend all day getting bombarded by adverts telling them to check if they have trauma they don't remember!

Our post-election Scotland poll suggests independence was a very important issue in deciding how 34% of voters voted, the second most important issue of the campaign after the NHS. Our pre-election polling suggested it was very important for just 24% of voters by March, a big campaign shift.

More than 60% of Australian kids are still using social media despite the ban. Because prohibition rarely works. We know this. mollyrosefoundation.org/more-than-60...

There's an organisation in Glasgow called Red Sunday School that does socialism-aligned groups for kids, and they should totally change their name to Trot My Tot, tbh

Continue to think the core problem with “ban the under 16s from social media” is it treats “online harms” as similar to a bottle of Grey Goose when they are far more akin to bathtub moonshine:

I think we're just one step away from calling trans women "degenerates" being completely normalised in the UK.

The newspaper lads here are reduced to gasping in shock and exasperation at her doing a no comment interview because they have nothing on her, it is *scalding their arses* that they don’t, and they would joyfully seize anything half-incriminating.

The Times here describing Restore’s “deport, detain” line on immigration as “robust”. This is how this stuff gets further and further normalised, the ratchet cranking ever rightwards.

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell admits embezzling £400,000 in party funds - BBC News

Well, they also read 'Handmaid's Tale' without getting the point, even to the extent of informing the author that she didn't understand her own book.

An 'anti-algorithm' arts festival is to make its Scottish debut this summer

Not entirely sure what possessed me to attempt to go for a run for the first time in, oh, two? and a half? years today but I very much regret it

“In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status-quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

The story of both of Scottish anti-trans campaigning's major successes - the GRA reform veto, and the SC ruling - are both cases of them getting repeatedly completely defeated in actual Scottish governmental organs and instead running down to London to beg the English to intervene for them.