NEW: We often hear that Scotland’s more progressive income tax is “driving people out the country.” New HMRC data shows the opposite. Far more taxpayers are moving to Scotland than leaving it. Let’s look at the data 🧵

they'll be convenient enemies regardless of what they do, that's playing out in the states right now. you can bend over backwards to appease fascists and it will never work, because their whole ideology is irrational and premised on the idea of purging enemies. they need enemies to function

🚨 BREAKING! 🟢 Yes: 70 🔴 No: 27 It's official! Scotland has voted for our bill to ban greyhound racing!

Also a problem: still being on X

A reminder that 86% of the ponds users support trans people and remaining trans inclusive. The bigots funded by the billionaire have limitless wealth to try and force their beliefs on everyone.

The writing is on the wall. The UK is going to attempt to ban hormones for trans adults. This is just one of the steps they're taking to limit access slowly. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/n...

So, uh, I have some news.

It's really quite unhealthy for our democracy that it's an extremely widespread view that if you just spent less money on elected reps and the business of making laws you could unlock vast riches to spend on frontline services. The costs of running democracy are miniscule compared to service costs!

it's also not the job of politicians or the clergy to determine what healthcare a person should or shouldn't receive. *none* of these people are medical professionals.

it's not actually the business of 'journalists' or columnists or pundits what healthcare i need and/or receive. they don't do this with cancer medications or treatments. they only do this with gender-affirming care where they bizarrely think they're qualified to comment.

In other words, it looks like absolute shit.

Donald Trump brags about taking Cuba, "I can do whatever I want with it." Donald Trump has stopped even pretending not to be a War Criminal dictator.

This week, MSPs will vote on our bill to ban greyhound racing in Scotland. We're delighted that new @greenparty.org.uk MP Hannah Spencer (and her greyhounds) has backed our bill to end greyhound racing for good.

'Sinners' wins Best Original Screenplay at the #Oscars Ryan Coogler's first-ever win

This does put a smile on my face

If he had actually listened to trans kids, he wouldn’t have taken away their healthcare btw, no trans young person went to that meeting and said “this medication that’s enabling me to be my authentic self? Ban it please”

Dunno anyone still part of an institution like the Labour Party loudly going on about how much they care about trans rights really rubs me the wrong way. This is all about YOU getting absolution, not about achieving anything for trans people.

Nearly every single trans person in the UK has been impacted by transphobia, report finds @transactualuk.bsky.social 👇

It’s basically an open secret at this point. When fascists want the mainstream to frame ‘illegal immigration’ as the problem what they’re doing is getting us used to questioning all non-white immigration.

Like sorry but fuck you trying to make yourself feel better convincing yourself you’re one of the good ones while still carrying the flag thats being planted on our graves

Actually think Labour people attending something like TransMission is really gross disrespectful and offensive in the same way GCs being there is

Always a joy to get to talk about how talented @beverleyknight.bsky.social is!😍 www.nme.com/news/music/z...

Winston Churchill: white supremacist murderous imperialist ❌ Otters: cute, furry, playful ✅

They steal your work, they dumb you down, they make your electricity more expensive, they take your water and your livelihood. But at least you’ll get opportunity of a lifetime: information that according to one BBC study is likely to be wrong 51% of the time! Incredible“progress” 💀

Trans people have been *screaming* for *years* this was coming. And here we are.

“It’s particularly horrendous to me when you have someone from within our own community who demonises a minority group. I don’t know what’s going on in Wes Streeting’s head, but what I do know is it’s terrifying for trans people,”

What's up, Wembley? 🏳️‍⚧️

OMG! OMG! OMG! The last time missing episodes were found was 13 years ago. And these are from a really great story too - Dalek's Master Plan. This is so incredibly exciting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.

The "Why can't the Green party stay as a narrow niche party we can safety ignore?" Is becoming quite a popular genre of article.

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

*run by

"write to your mp" They ignore me for 3 weeks then send the latest copy/paste from HQ "then call your MP" After waiting on hold a staffer tells me to email instead. "then turn up in person" Shes never there "then vote in a better MP" You told me if I don't vote labour then I deserve the Reform camps

It’s true my GP has, after 44 years taking estrogens and been prescribed them from this surgery for the last 4 years, has referred me back to the gender clinic ‘because they have no expertise in prescribing these hormones’ I was signed off from the gender clinic in 1990.

90 labour mps abstained on whether or not to strip british citizens of trial by jury. they abstained. only 10 opposed.

she should not have been put in this position.

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms "I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"

gender affirming care for trans youth is about suicide mitigation so if you remove that you are obviously intending to ramp suicides. the idea that wes streeting and hilary cass don't know what they're doing is silly. they are absolutely trying to kill those children and they both belong in prison.

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

There’s a terrible tendency that any time anyone comes along and starts saying things that are popular from a left perspective, established thinking goes ‘all very nice yes, but it’s not SERIOUS is it’ even whilst all the accepted serious people fail absolutely constantly at the absolute basics.

No transfers from Labour should be in the Greens' top team or act as spokespeople. They should spend at least a few years as unimportant normal members/candidates. As penance, but also to keep the Greens' integrity intact...

OFCOM all over this like a sloth on diazepam wielding a feather duster

From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms: It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment. We must protect jury trials.

I think the only reason to cut jury trials is to ensure that politically uncomfortable defendents such as pro Palestine demonstrators or climate activists can be locked up for years without a jury acquitting them. The jury reform plans are an attack on one of the last remaining democracy safeguards.

I really hope this is the last we hear about it, but I suspect it won't be...

Labour is a DEEPLY, DEEPLY, DEEPLY transphobic party, especially when Labour MPs tell us they are not transphobic. They are so transphobic that they believe it is better to impose conversion therapy on trans kids to “save” them from being trans. You can’t get any more transphobic than that.

I kind of like fact that Greens are properly Greens, driven by core values rather than ambition. I don’t know who they should accept - if anyone. Definitely not anyone who has ever taken money from lobbyists or worked for lobbyists or who has even been in same room as Labour Friends of Israel.

To have stuck with Labour this long and only now be considering defecting to the Greens (after Gorton & Denton and some polls really starting to swing towards the Greens) doesn't scream principles to me, it screams following the direction of the votes, and I don't see that as good.