This is genuinely pretty jaw dropping. All I see on Facebook is that Glasgow is dead/nobody comes to Glasgow any more etc which certainly doesn’t match what I see in town, it’s good to have the figures backing it up.

There's no UK-wide levy called stamp duty, FT, and hasn't been since 2015. This is basic.

anyway in case you're wondering why i'm actually quite proud to campaign for the snp it's because of a clear message of support for people seeking asylum *and* good homelessness policy, and knowing that these aren't in conflict

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Today's Tory motion continues their pattern of wrongly blaming migrants for everything - but they can't even get the basics right. When it comes to issues as sensitive as migration, getting the facts right really matters.

NEW Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law" The Home Secretary wants to ban more things By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

Sébastien Lecornu 🇫🇷 has resigned after serving 0.55 Liz Trusses in office

[Labour Party looking at polls that show a far-right government incoming at the next election] Let's introduce entirely unprecedented and extreme restrictions on the right to protests. There will be no bad or regretable consequences to this.

If we’re going to be having flags on lamp posts (which I’m not keen on) I prefer these ones

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

On the downward slope to #snp25 I should probably say that as is now traditional I'm standing for Member Conduct (I think this would be my 5th year on the committee?) and would be very grateful for your first preference vote or next highest offer.

This morning I wrote to the Foreign Secretary and First Minister urging them to work to ensure the quick, safe return of flotilla participants detained by Israeli forces, including my constituent. I am deeply concerned for the welbeing of the detainees and for their families at this worrying time.

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Excl: The Labour housing convener of Edinburgh City Council has suggested the city's allocation of affordable homes should be cut, despite the capital grappling with a housing crisis www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Scotland must have the right to decide its own future. Declare your support at yes.scot/signup/

Horrified and heartbroken by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester, on Yom Kippur, the holiest time in the Jewish calendar. My thoughts are with the victims, their families and all Jewish communities. Antisemitism is an evil we must confront and stand resolutely against.

“Nigel Farage is wrong in principle, his approach is racist, and we oppose it” “Nigel Farage is right on immigration, but he doesn’t have the skill or experience to deliver his plans” At some point, the government has to pick *one* of these narratives, instead of veering wildly between the two.

this was *exactly* my point yesterday when i said don't get too excited about starmer's novel anti-racism schtick. the conference plays to the labour core, not to daily mail readers. so we got what he thought *they* wanted to hear. then he walked off stage and resumed copying reform's homework

Once again Labour's strategy is to say that racism is terrible, and therefore we will defeat the racists by giving them almost everything they want bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/k...

Keir Starmer's "progressive fightback" latest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How long before Labour backdown on this 'Reform is racist' stuff? I give it until the close of play tomorrow. Then it will be back to the familiar territory of accommodating and copying them again.

Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx" looks like state capitalism to me www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

First Past the Post is insane. Reform UK would achieve a decent majority across the UK with a vote share almost identical to that of the SNP in 2024, when they lost all but a handful of seats.

Labour seem to have developed a strategy of getting ‘negged’ by Reform voters; shifting their policies in ever more socially conservative directions to attract such voters and somehow repelling them, and yet still, maybe, maybe this time will be the one. 6/n

In addition to the normative points, I am once again tapping the sign marked 'net immigration to the UK in 2029 will still be, in relative terms, very high, and the government needs to have a position that allows it to defend what the Actually Existing UK looks like'.

We're likely to see more asymmetrical enforcement with age-verification, where those who are politically aligned with the state's DOJ do not feel the need to comply while those who are not either self-censor or self-surveil. Hurdles are placed to access left-leaning voices and communities.

Tomorrow, @bsky.app will begin requiring all users in Ohio to submit facial scans, government IDs or other identity info to access the site, in order to prevent prosecution under the state's age-verification law. Meanwhile, X does nothing. Because it likely doesn't fear prosecution.

And if one of the poorest students wants to study philosophy or music?

I do think we sometimes forget: 1. We need high-skilled migrants to keep the NHS working, and to grow the economy 2. High-skilled migrants have a *lot* of choices over where to go And 3. We’ve been getting less attractive as a destination for years anyway (wages here famously suck)

Labour is just not interested In keeping with Reform - and in an attempt to match them - it is just easier to blame others Weak, pathetic and despicable www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour's plan to fight Reform involves [checks notes] creating a subaltern class of indentured labourers

Mandatory “volunteering”/community service work is only used as punishment for crime. Having the temerity to have been born elsewhere is not a crime. No expletives string enough for how disgusting the British government’s attitude towards people from elsewhere is and is becoming. I hate it.

Lewis is away this weekend so I’m taking myself on a lot of solo dates and trying to wade my way through books thicker than my (admittedly narrow) wrist.

Gonna go out on a limb here and say that is an opportunity they are unlikely to avail themselves of.

Civil liberties matter. Down with digital ID Starmer’s policy is exclusionary, unworkable and an attack on the few privacy rights we have left By Oli Dugmore

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

We’re against Starmer’s Brit-card.

In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.

This is how we do at @glasgowsnp.bsky.social 😎

Mind BeReal? Do people still use that?

I once again must ask Labour people why I am supposed to care more that the SNP want independence than the fact that Reform want to repatriate my wife

This is the consequence of Starmer’s hitherto reluctance to challenge Reform and their morally-abhorrent nonsense. His cowardice and political stupidity has contributed to Reform thinking they can propose a policy as ghastly as abolishing ILR for those who already possess it.

This is abhorrent, and it isn't the migration system Scotland needs. We need a system that is humane (people aren't numbers), welcoming (we don't want to put people off coming) and efficent (years in limbo is bad for individuals and employers) - and we can only deliver that system with independence.

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

During hearings, age-verification proponents denied that it would be used to target LGBTQ content. We warned that the "harmful to minors" definition in the bill was broad and open for abuse. Rather than saying "absolutely not," the author is dangling the prospect. Stochastic lawfare.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

Starmer speedrunning New Labour, Your Party falling apart somehow even faster than Change UK - The Independent Group (For Change), it’s all just bananas really isn’t it.

the wild thing is we in the uk can't even make fun of trump for his 'antifa ban' given we proscribed palestine action