The English Scots and Irish with their long history of getting along as one people

And the thing is? We know that this is generational. That there is a cliff-edge in anti-trans hostility across generations that means that when the current over-45s age-out of power so does the vast majority of anti-trans hatred. This is the death throes of that hate. Their last gasp.

Steen's suggestion is unworkable nonsense and she knows it. You're either married or you're not.

Tracy Gilbert M.P. for Edinburgh North and Leith welcoming the vile racist who hounded a doctor out of her job with the NHS.

If you've seen the Sunday Times today you'll know Labour Together were secretly hiring people to investigate journalists. Sadly you won't know that The National broke this story six months ago, since our work is not credited at all. Here's the original 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...

And not by management or her colleagues, but by the British press as part of a years-long hate campaign now increasingly focused on harassing and harming individual members of the public

This echoes Douglas Alexander calling the SNP a national security threat and imo is a mistake from Labour in a wider strategic sense www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Look I'm not a Big Thinktank Clever Clogs but might I suggest that following the departure of McSweeney, a great approach might be "okay, and how involved were you with Labour Together?" and anything more than "tangentially" is the auto-sack. Incredibly corrosive force on our politics it turns out!

Anas Sarwar's biggest input to public life was to mock Dr Upton in the Scottish Parliament as a way to own the Nats over GRR, which he supported until marching orders in London told him not to

Starmer's Britain is one in which an NHS Doctor is dragged through the courts and shamed in the press for no crime she has committed and is ultimately forced into self-exile due to harassment Labour on all levels of politics enthusiastically supported

One simply cannot escape the conclusion that there isn't a single example of trans people existing in public as themselves that Sex Matters or For Women Scotland won't oppose.

GCs object to trans people serving as doctors (this article), trans children being accepted as such in schools (www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_7r...), trans people being on TV shows (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) and trans aliens being mascots for libraries (www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/2296826...).

Their issue is that they have loads of platforms and the majority of Ireland mock and or don’t care about their views because it’s 2026 not 1826 The “conservative voices” are literally lost in time

A less transphobic press might start asking "How does driving a doctor out of Scotland help cut NHS wait times? Why is Scotland better with fewer doctors? Which other minority staff would you get rid of?"

Reminder that Rob Liddle said he couldn't be a teacher because he would try to rape the kids

Susan Smith of For Women Scotland is quoted in this piece saying that Dr Upton leaving the NHS will be "a relief to female patients." The employment tribunal found that Upton had done nothing wrong! She was completely innocent of any kind of harassment! www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1592555...

Norstat 10-13 Feb seat projection (vs last poll / vs 2021 on new boundaries); AMS Ideal seats: SNP ~ 64 (+2 / +1); 45 RUK ~ 21 (+4 / +21); 26 Lab ~ 18 (nc / -3); 23 Grn ~ 11 (nc / +1); 14 Con ~10 (-2 / -21); 14 LD ~ 5 (-4 / +1); 7 (Projection caveats: ballotbox.scot/projections)

Yet another reminder that none of these anti-trans guys give a single shit about protecting women

Full admiration to the photographer who had set up a love balloon arch outside the restaurant and tried to convince me to pay for a picture in it because 'la meilleure leçon dans la vie c'est d'apprendre à s'aimer soi-même/the best lesson in line is to learn to love yourself'. Top class hustling.

The sass of the person writing the minute by minute on England v Scotland is to be admired

I'd love it if we didn't have quite so many rich Scottish guys who are extremely invested in making sure sex pests face no consequences even after death news.stv.tv/scotland/mil...

I hadn’t realised that the Epstein files are full of chat about London as the place for rich swine to sue and crush people reporting on their activities. Completely blunt about it, sounds like: if you’re a rich criminal who needs to squash someone, you should always sue them in Britain.

The people of Free Derry continuing to influence those standing up in the face of authoritarian state brutality.

This is Catherine Connolly's first home game as President. Fully expecting her to psych out Italy by executing a perfect drop goal from the halfway line before the handshakes. #IrevIta

It is in the national interest that you are told Michael D Higgins has posted an Instagram reel montage, for Valentine’s Day, of his late dog Bród

I do think you can probably short circuit a lot of this by recognising that popular imagination of those groups of voters were women, and neither of the major parties can really cope with that threat to their masculine energy...

Lol I forgot about this part

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

When your name is all over the Epstein files, but you don’t want your reputation tarnished by being associated with Glinner

impressed by your boyfriend scoffing in response to this that he never liked Oasis anyway. I'm thinking about asking him for playlist recommendations.

when you think about it there's a remarkably consistent through-line from the Plantation of Ulster to the American colonial project to the US-supported destruction of Gaza

You think you know a guy

Migration is not colonisation — it’s contribution. Our CEO, Sabir Zazai, challenges harmful myths and calls for compassionate conversations about migration. It’s time to reject toxic narratives and recognise the value of those who make Scotland home. Full statement here: https://ow.ly/l8eC50Yf3SK

SCOTTISH SILENT HILL

Yes, what if we moved the goalposts again so that this abysmal piece of shit, this walking affront to the democratic process, could just jail anyone he wants rid of? Much to think about

Our government delights in bashing immigrants, and given I presume that they can read polling data showing that right-wing voters still loathe them, I can only presume this is for the love of the game.

I dunno what’s gonna happen in scotland but if things down south are the way they are here this simply isn’t going to work. there were entire classes of kids turning on teachers at our *primary* school who wouldn’t use kids’ correct pronouns

NOT NOW, RADIOACTIVE HYBRID TERROR PIGS.

The "actually this labour government is left wing" people on here are amazing. They should be studied.

The Scottish Government has published updated statutory RSHP guidance for all schools in Scotland. It strengthens learning around consent, online harms, safeguarding, and LGBT inclusion. We’ve produced a clear and factual explainer outlining what it means in practice for schools.

It's devastating to me how much public money is being wasted in the British legal system purely on maintaining maximally destructive stances on human rights in service to the political ideology of the regime.

A straightforward example here of why optics or compromising with bigots is simply bad strategy: it will never be enough the bigots will never be satisfied

Ah sure it’s them, they’re mental and they’re used to that - it’s different over there.” Sorry no, we are human beings, people here deserve to have a decent quality of life - a minimum standard of that would mean that the government tackles terrorist organisations suffocating their own communities.

The only good thing about the wild proscription (and active enforcement of that prescription) of Palestine Action has been to show in neon brightness, the hypocrisy of the British Government when it comes to ensuring police tackle armed and actively recruiting, proscribed terrorist orgs here

the government which said it was powerless to change the law when the supreme court ruled about trans people is suddenly going to remember very quickly they can do lawmaking when it comes to cracking down on dissent

This should worry everyone. It’s anti worker as well as transphobic

Oh so you CAN question a court judgement after all

The transphobic press have no incentive to give Labour credit for their transphobia and every incentive to push them to go further. Labour gain nothing by caving to them, and yet cave to them they will, out of a potent combination of hatred for trans people and political ineptitude.