www.heraldscotland.com/news/2584568... The tragedy of systemic abuse and lack of belief in and support of victims is terrible! I hope that any victims who have suffered by the club’s failures receive the Justice they deserve and support they need.

Israel is spraying toxic herbicides, poisoning Lebanese farmland and posing a “serious humanitarian risk”.

Excited to be hosting the London launch of Together Alliance tonight at EartH Hackney. We're coming together to say: the far right must be stopped. Join us on 28 March: togetheralliance.org.uk

Paul Baumann: Like many American Catholics, I was initially certain that the Church’s refusal to ordain women was an archaic bit of chauvinism. I am no longer certain that is the real issue. www.commonwealmagazine.org/baumann-wome...

The Green MPs have written to the Cabinet Secretary urging an investigation into "Palantir's vice-like grip on our Government" and the role played by disgraced Peter Mandelson in brokering it. All contracts with this Trump-supporting spy tech company must be suspended.

“Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system,a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience,and almost all others are doomed to be poor..And since we know that the system will not change the rules,we are going to have to change the system” Martin Luther King jr

Without significant redistribution of wealth through a real taxation of wealth,the energy of alienation that fuels the growth of populist and far right parties and groups will continue. People need to feel that they are stakeholders in an economy that serves their needs and the common good.

A politics of prolonged perception of “damage limitation” voting In Which people feel no choice and No possibility of change -whether their political instincts are of the left or right. Should be a red flag on the demise of their democracy and whether it represents or serves the people!

Whatever anyone’s views of Corbyn or the left of the Labour Party (mostly now gone from its ranks)they warned who Starmer was and what he had done and would do! The idea that this was a man who could lead or had integrity is a delusional myth born of “anyone but Corbyn” then “anyone but the Tories”

Phillipson says yes, the govts made mistakes, but its also delivered, & she cites scrapping the 2 child benefit cap You could have done this in July 2024. Instead you've needlessly kept hundreds of thousands of kids in poverty for almost 2 years & it had to be forced out of you

Does Douglas Alexander, Scottish Secretary resign and back Sarwar or does he stay and say Sarwar's judgement is wrong?

Am told Eluned Morgan, First Minister of Wales, is going to follow Anas Sarwar in calling for the PM to stand down; Also that there will be "Scottish MP ministerial resignations" afterwards Ministers saying it's the end game...

The reason why the Labour party wants a new leader is that the polls and local elections both put them on the brink of death, the policy agenda is a mess of warmed-over Milibandism pared with hypocritical social conservativism and no obvious route to the upside.

“Mostly it is loss that teaches us about the worth of things” SCHOPENHAUER

Aged like milk ...

“Nonviolence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak…Nonviolence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.” Cesar Chavez

“The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific.It is as applicable to problems that confront us now,as to problems that confronted generations in the past.It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process.It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity” Marianne Williamson

When it comes to football there is no more political an institution than Celtic Football Club in Glasgow…..the club’s fanbase is one of the most politically conscious and active of anywhere in the world on a left-wing, anti-racist and anti-fascist basis.” John Wight

“Celtic were founded in opposition…the Irish of Scotland’s west coast now had a club..a beacon under which they found not only shelter..but a guiding light to illuminate their path through an uncertain future…..a place for Irish Catholics in Glasgow to experience a true kinship.” EDD NORVAL

Mr McSweeney’s resignation!!His next job will be interesting. What was he guaranteed to take the fall? This is without doubt the death agony of Mr Starmer’s political career and the Last stand of Labour to attempt to survive this crisis.Will it be enough to save Mr Starmer! We can but hope not!

As always David Pratt is worth a read. Long read but walks through the journey of accrued intelligence connections with wealth accumulation that scaffolded Epstein’s horrific crimes and influence.

A picture of Musk and Zuckerberg at the dinner they attended with Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein in 2015. Epstein described the night as ‘wild’

🗳️ How young men would vote in #GE2029: 🟢 Grn: 30% (+18) 🔴 Lab: 21% (-19) 🟠 Lib: 17% (+1) 🔵 Con: 12% (+2) ➡️ Ref: 12% (=) Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE2024)

🗳️ How young women would vote in #GE2029: 🟢 Grn: 44% (+21) 🔴 Lab: 21% (-21) 🟠 Lib: 19% (+3) 🔵 Con: 8% (+2) ➡️ Ref: 5% (-1) Via @YouGov, 14 Dec - 9 Jan (+/- vs GE2024)

“President Trump is plunging in the polls, and many of his policies are being defeated, either legislatively or through the courts. That’s worth celebrating.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, author of Elite Capture, interviewed for @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

@drrosena.bsky.social : "There are people in cabinet who need to question their own positions, they were very close to Peter Mandelson, they may have known what was going on.. they know who they are" We do too.

"They will look at the barely-tarnished reputations of those whose names appear & blame not the men themselves, but the women who refused to let the subject drop. " My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on how it's always about money & politics, not the victims, & this is no moment of reckoning.

Seems like a good video for his trial

BREAKING 🚨: Reform have been caught potentially cheating in the up coming Gorton & Denton by election. Residents have received a letter from a 'local pensioner'. There is no Reform Party branding on the letter

📖 Weekend reading! It's unjust that the poorest people in the UK are getting poorer. Poverty is hardening, not easing. That's the shocking finding in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's #UKPoverty2026 report, launched this week. www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...

It has been revealed that our chief reporter, @john-mcevoy.bsky.social, was among journalists investigated by a PR firm paid by Labour Together. Labour Together was then managed by Josh Simons. Simons is now Cabinet Office minister. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Amnesty UK is proud to join the Together Alliance 🕯️ We are coming together because we NEED to. We are made up of over one hundred civil society organisations - representing over 7 million people - united against hate, division and the far right.

One of the less commented on aspects of the English and Welsh Greens benefiting at Labour’s expense is the displacement of a party committed to the Union by another party which doesn’t stand in Scotland but whose sister party support Scottish independence.

Surrounding Yourself with people offering bad advice is a failure of leadership matching actual poor decision making itself! Whether Mr McSweeney should go is relevant only to the extent that he needs to/will go when the Prime Minister resigns! Only a matter of time if he has any integrity left!

Surrounding Yourself with people offering bad advice is a failure of leadership matching actual poor decision making itself! Whether Mr McSweeney should go is relevant only to the extent that he needs to/will go when the Prime Minister resigns! Only a matter of time if he has any integrity left!

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will take it from here.

the SSPX is trying to force the Vatican to renegotiate Vatican II (this is not new) and to (re)open within Catholicism a debate on the theological orthodoxy of the Pope who died a few months ago (this is kind of new). And they think they can count on a fifth column inside.

Where is Alastair Campbell aka on the biggest Labour scandal in decades? Strangely silent on #Mandelson.

Despite their faults and weaknesses in any previous Labour govt the prime minister would have gone by now!The man cannot continue,he was already in dire straits but I suppose post boris Johnson anything goes in this media dominated and debased political circus masquerading as parliamentary democracy

The band has celebrated William 'Big Bill' Campbell on several occasions. During the Troubles, Campbell was named as the UVF’s leader in Scotland. He was sentenced for his part in the 1971 Glasgow pub bombings. www.heraldscotland.com/news...

If Sir Keir Starmer had any integrity whatsoever he would resign! The lack of leadership and acceptance of where the decision making failure lies over Peter Mandelson is beyond belief.If politicians wish people to believe in the integrity of the system they must show it when their judgement fails!

“Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The delusion that capitalists who own and run football clubs will behave any differently from how they behave in other contexts is delusional.There is a real limit to what fans can do to influence decision making now but what can be done must be done!They own the business but they remain our clubs.

We know boycotts are difficult and deeply emotive for Celtic fans. But if you want positive change at the Club, this action is now necessary. Join us in sending a clear message to Michael Nicholson and the board - your time is up.

📌 ICYMI — Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/02/tommy-robinson-and-the-london-news-website-linked-to-a-putin-backed-propaganda-network/

The time Mick Lynch called the Lab candidate in Islington North "a private health profiteer" & Mandelson told him thats a nasty & disgraceful thing to say & a complete untruth The host then interjects "he's an entrepreneur who's made money in private healthcare" Mick: "Exactly"