Fantastic result in Hungary. 🇭🇺

@scottishgreens.org have my vote on 7th May. #VoteGreen

International law and International diplomacy has failed. There is still time for Trump to step back from the brink but I am doubtful he will. Trump's genocidal language should have us all outraged - sadly I think most will look the other way.

I am genuinely devastated that the Scottish Parliament has voted against Assisted Dying this evening. The majority of MSPs have sadly not listened to the people of Scotland on this issue.

This is completely desperate stuff from Kate Forbes. She objects to this Bill on her own personal religious grounds. That is absolutely fine and legitimate. However, trying to expand opposition to this Bill based on whether you support independence or not is nonsense and unsavoury.

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

There's a word for the specific form of psychological abuse in which transphobia is disingenuously portrayed as concern, caution, or scientifically rigourous evidence: Casslighting.

Folk who release balloons into the air need their heads checked. Balloons filled with helium littering the beach in Culross.

Andrew got the £12 million to pay off Virginia Giuffre from 'loans' from the late Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Charles. The King 'lent' Andrew £1.5 million to protect the institution of monarchy while publicly distancing himself from Andrew. The House of Windsor showing how rotten it is.

Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.

Scottish Labour clearly think the move will shift the dial in their favour. However, with Scottish Labour MPs refusing to stand with Sarwar it leaves him looking weak & powerless and has exposed divisions in the party. If Scottish Labour were a separate party from UK Labour maybe different result.

Who on earth sent out Emma Reynolds to defend Starmer on Channel 4 News. Shes floundering so badly and has just admitted her own association with Mandelson and her obliviousness to his connections to Epstein. The public knew, how didn't Labour Cabinet members?

Royal Family statements on Andrew and Epstein - without saying either name. Anas Sarwar calling for Keir Starmer to stand down as Prime Minister. Senior staff in the Prime Minister's office resigning. This is all simply about damage control and self preservation. It won't work.

Morgan McSweeney should have been sacked long ago. I hoped that Labour really would see change in this country yet all we have seen is more poor, self indulgent leadership from UK Prime Minister's and Starmer must now surely be considering his position.

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

I dont care about trans prisoners - particularly trans men. That's the sum of For Women Scotland's legal argument today.

Can't say I'm surprised. Internal democracy isn't something Labour are terribly keen on.

The US is a rogue state. Time for the UK to reevaluate their relationship with the US. Walking away and aligning clearly and unapologetically with Europe is the only way we can progress.

Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation. It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them. Disastrous strategy by Labour.

Putting a war criminal on the Board of "Peace" is quite the bold move.

So she wants to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward" with an org that is under investigation from the Charity Commission. So much for her “Judge me on what I do”. Well, Dr Stephenson, don’t worry, we will. And if we have to take you to court, we’ll do that as well.

“The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ under the Equality Act 2010… has instead opened up a series of contradictory court decisions and litigation that is dragging individual trans+ workers into the limelight and chewing them up in the process.” We must resist legalised transphobia.

There are 134 prisoners in the women's prison estate in Scotland within Index Offence Group 1 which includes the most serious non-sexual crimes including murder. Douglas Ross today names 3 of them in Parliament. All 3 are trans. IMO a Group 1 offender is dangerous irrespective of gender.

So we now have 2 Tory parties in the UK. One is full of right wingers who call themselves Reform. The other is full of right wingers who call themselves Conservatives. The two are parties filled with failed politicians who care only for their only political careers.

'Please, you don't have to have your hand on me' Watch the moment ITV News' Peter A Smith was grabbed by a Reform UK staffer after being told to move on from his line of questioning while interviewing the party's new Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord

This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

Occupying and extortion is not a way any President should conduct foreign affairs. This is colonialism with the sole purpose of extracting oil and increasing profits for US corporations.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Always nice to wake up to a new war....👀 Big test incoming for Starmer, will this be his Blair moment?

Heba Muraisi has now been on hunger strike for 60 days. At this point the likelihood of sudden death is very high. The first "positive change" Keir Starmer should be making is granting immediate bail to these remand prisoners before he has even more blood on his hands.

I reckon 2026 could finally be the year a certain anti-trans lobby group may falter. Beware though of what and who comes next, there are more nasty and more dangerous actors waiting in the wings. Brace yourselves.

"Judge me on what I do" say new EHRC chair as she defends a segregationist's charter that will land thousands of corporations and services across the country in legal quagmires whilst seeking to drive trans people from public life as "legally sound" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

I am always alarmed at how readily those who are anti-migrant, anti-trans and anti-diversity call people that oppose their views paedophiles. This rhetoric is rarely called out by those in powerful positions, yet it has become so commonly used it is almost the expected retort when you dare engage.

Mary-Ann Stephenson assumes - either from ignorance or malice - that trans people have no legal rights as trans. That is deeply troubling from someone holding her role - although hardly surprising given her history. Awful - and hopelessly out of her depth (just as two Select Committees concluded).

Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, who supported and donated to Allison Bailey's case and signed gender critical letters, was vetted by two committees of MPs, and both advised the minister, Bridget Phillipson, NOT to appoint her to the chair of the EHRC. Phillipson ignored that advice. So here we are.

I was concerned that Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson might try and be smarter about transphobia than her predecessors and leave trans people in a shit place than was harder to rectify because it wasn’t so obvious. Today dispelled those worries. Labour have appointed a second raving bigot to run the EHRC.

I have been saying for a while that Reform will surprise us in a number of areas. With SNP down a bit and Labour/Tories collapsing reform could win more than we reckon by wafer thin margins and on very low % of vote. Concerning and 3 big parties better start paying attention.

I hope today's ruling gives Dr Beth Upton some peace. This has been an utterly appalling display of harassment and abuse of an innocent individual who was merely getting ready for their shift. Those who stoked this, included Anas Sarwar & Jackie Baillie. Let's never forget that.

The first is, who stays on as EHRC Commissioners? The terms of both Akua Rheindorf and Alastair Henderson are soon up. Both are ideologically aligned with Faulkner and taint the EHRC. Will MAS support or oppose their renewal as Commissioners? /3

This has become a common refrain from the EHRC recently: "Stop complaining about your rights. You don't have any". It is hardly a winning argument to tell trans and non-binary individuals that we should just accept having fewer rights.

Letting trans and non-binary just live our lives in peace and without harassment isn't going to turn everyone either trans or non-binary. This is just like the "gay panic" of the 80's/90's. The ECHR draft guidance was so poor and illiterate they had to delete it. www.thetimes.com/article/3d81...

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good