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It's worth listening to this podcast in full. You can pretty much hear Tice's brain worms screaming in pain when he was asked how the Reform policy of hiking taxes on existing renewable energy installations would bring down bills and create jobs. It is also a great bit of climate journalism.

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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.

🔴 Often posting videos on social media, street patrols say they're peaceful activists who want to protect women and children. But critics argue they are effectively vigilantes with political agendas. www.theferret.scot/scotlands-night-patrol-groups-protecting-women-children-vigilantes

All those brave defenders of women's rights targeting a young female columnist because that's where we're at now.

Meet the new guy, same as the old guy.

Just watched a police van arrive to break up a group of boys playing with a football in St Enoch Square if you wondered how this act of totally proportionate policing is going ...

There's a lot to unpack in Should I Marry a Murderer but it includes a reminder that Brian McConnachie - somehow, incredibly, still a KC - is still a piece of a shit.

I'm just a girl, standing in front of Scotland's political parties, begging them to stop using generative AI to produce campaign slop.

Not even sure where to start with this. As well as totally deranged and obscene, it is just bizarre. These people are not just grim and menacing, but they are proper weirdos aren't they?

Scotland deserves candidates who actually understand what they're bringing up on the campaign trail every day. Anyone who only raises violence against women and girls as part of racist and anti-immigration rhetoric is fundamentally misunderstanding what sexual violence looks like in this country.

Folks, an important PSA! If you’re attending Free Comic Book Day/Comic Giveaway Day then keep in mind that the books may be free for you but the shop still pays for each and every one of them. Only take what you want and make sure to support your local shop by buying something while you’re there.

🔴NEW: Campaigners are calling for social media companies to be held legally accountable for threats of violence against women on their platforms. The calls follow a Ferret investigation into abuse linked to anti-asylum protests in Scotland. Our latest: theferret.scot/violence-aga...

For the uninitiated, the Falkirk Stadium only has three stands.

joanna cherry implying that sturgeon timed the lockdown to distract from old man ketchup's court case is astonishing. what a mind

Anti-migrant streamers and 'auditors' who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as ‘citizen journalists’, have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/t...

We've seen a lot of divisive language and misinformation about people seeking safety lately. This is the reality of claiming asylum and being a refugee in Scotland 👇

So @abertayuni.bsky.social waited *five months* to publish a response doubling down on the decision to invite an unqualified woman best known for calling rape survivors 'lying c****' on TikTok to give a guest lecture. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5462...

The Home Office is currently consulting on removing accommodation and financial support from families who have been refused asylum, even if they've got nowhere else to go. But they won't tell anyone how many people they think will be impacted questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Want to share your story but don't know where to start? We're on the lookout for ambassadors for Refugee Festival Scotland. Interested? Find out more: https://www.refugeefestivalscotland.co.uk/2026/03/were-looking-for-festival-ambassadors/

It's almost as if, far from promoting freedom of speech, they want this power to use as a threat to make it more risky for charities in Scotland to engage in political campaigns.

Scottish Tories are to "call for a review of legislation which would potentially revoke charity status from bodies which are “almost entirely supported by public funds”. Surely they know this would destroy loads of community services overnight? Ludicrous. www.thetimes.com/article/233b...

I’m going to flood the time line with Sam Kieth art. Rip to a legend.

This backlash is well overdue and has been bubbling for a little while. @praxisprojects.bsky.social mass lobby last week, we had such a high turnout of MPs. All agreeing as a baseline that this should not be applied retrospectively to migrants already here, and that MPs should have a proper say.

This is one of the hardest articles I've written in a wee while. Quite a difficult read but some important personal accounts of why whatever MSPs decide on Tuesday, the debate on assisted dying and palliative care is crucial www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

In November, the Scottish Police Federation complained internal sexual misconduct investigations were too heavy handed and said police officers were being punished by a "suspend first, decide later culture". I think we have a different definition of punishment. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/pert...

Few things in life are universal, except Scottish football's collective contempt for Douglas Ross.

Today The Sun has a front page story about how Beth Upton has quit the NHS, which they have framed as “a relief for female patients,” misgendering her throughout. You have to go to 3/4 down page 7 to read a three-line paragraph noting that Dr. Upton was cleared of any wrongdoing in the tribunal.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Joined a Dundee United forum. It's just me and a dozen middle aged men arguing about whether or not we need a new manager, and it's probably the most wholesome corner of the internet I've found since 2007.

Good to see some Labour MPs showing a backbone, but the problems with these proposals on settlement aren't limited to being applied retrospectively: they also favour the well-off, discriminate vs disabled people, women & people with caring responsibilities and are probably unworkable

Going through the Rape Crisis archives, I enjoyed this gem of a hate letter by a Mike Tyson fan who was so affronted by the Glasgow centre's bid to block Tyson from entering the country that he took the time to write this note in green glittery gel pen.

Mordor she wrote #LibraryShelfieDay

Just a Scottish political party trying to reintroduce the rape clause in 2026. Cool.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

Happy Hogmanay! x

“Well, here’s to survival. Hopefully, we’ll be doing this again next New Year’s Eve.” #TheBatman @mattreevesla.bsky.social

Chuffed to bits with this gift from my very kind pal @iainhepburn.me. It will have pride of place in my office. Harchester United forever. 🐉💜

How I'm walking out of 2025.

Depressing yet utterly unsurprising that it's taken two weeks for any media to report that the editor of The Times has been arrested and charged. Any newsroom trying to claim they had to wait for indictment doesn't seem to apply that logic to literally any other arrest/initial court appearance.

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“Am I right, guys?” [realising that the guys are suddenly no longer standing behind me] “Guys?”

It is absolutely stunning that, even after the ludicrously disproportionate journalistic capacity that has gone into reporting the Peggie case in the last several months, way too many media outlets still have absolutely no idea quite what they are reporting.

That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.

Cheers to @evawuk.bsky.social for having me on their steering group this year. It was a real joy to read so much in-depth, powerful reporting. Some incredibly important journalism here.

Should I...?

"I arrived here as a child refugee — now I’m a chef at Michelin-star restaurants" Delighted to see our friend Nestor featured in today's Standard. What a superstar 🌟 www.standard.co.uk/news/nestor-...

What a night. One pal sends me a photo of him crying in the middle of the pub, another video calls from the Middle East to tell me he's going to name his firstborn Kenny. We're going to win the World Cup.