🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy. We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...

Congratulations to British fascists, who have quite thoroughly retoxified their own favourite symbols in just a few months, just by association with them.

Chapeau, Nicola 👍🎩No-one else will "Nicola Sturgeon's leadership meant thousands of people are alive today, who'd have died had Nicola Sturgeon copied the UK Government. Most damning fact: mortality rate was 3.9% in Scotland, 4.9% (25% worse) in Wales and 6.5% (almost twice as bad) in England"

This raises the worrying prospect that overwhelming media power in Britain could be concentrated in the hands of a tiny number of very wealthy, extremely nasty and very right wing crackpots who will use it for malignant ends

It took a two year campaign of digital deep mining, bullshit and screeching to convince the public Old Jezza had a racism issue. This government is straight out wearing black in front of a billowing sixty-foot Union flag like Norsefire, promising to fuck up the migrants. These things are different.

* in trans young people. We'll keep providing them to cis young people, for whom they're magically harmless.

I've already stated my opinion on this matter. To reiterate, she's racist and so is the Prime Minister because the buck should stop at his desk. I am never voting for Labour again. bsky.app/profile/samo...

”It’s us or Reform.” “So you’ll be hammering Reform every chance you get?” “Oh my, no.”

The shift from “migrants are the cause of racism” to “migrants are the cause of fascist rioting” is a big one in political terms but not, I think, in the minds of people who have for decades been saying that it’s not racism at all and even if it is, it’s not bad or shameful.

I see we've stopped posting excitable nonsense about the cricket again. Also, lol.

I’m afraid this is a comforting bedtime story. The reality is that *they are* the enemy: their leaders know exactly what they’re doing and how destructive it is, and they’re still doing it because they want to do it.

Much as the UK government would love folk to forget the Birmingham Bin strike is still going on. Ffs this would be wall to wall news if it was Glashow yet neer a peep fae the UK media except the odd online news report.

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EXCLUSIVE: A Labour minister has been urged to apologise for spreading “false claims” about Scotland’s NHS. A complaint has also been sent to the Cabinet Office and the statistics watchdog

“If you enjoyed the Labour right fighting to wrest away the controls and deliberately flying the plane into a mountain five years ago, wait til you get a load of the carnage this roaring headbanger will gladly inflict on everyone in 2029”

Times up for Labour. Let’s place them into past history. Vote SNP in May ‘26 and end this Union . #nounion #independence #scotland #snp #vote

It’s a big self-cleaning impunity machine. This is exactly why - say - an inquiry into corrupt links and cooperation between government, police and media might have been useful, and that’s the reason why the government cancelled it after intense pressure from media and police.

I’d point out that the Iraq report was instantly binned and never referred to again; that nobody is in prison for the Hillsborough disaster or for *soldiers literally gunning down civilians in the street*, and that there are no notable calls to exact consequences on Boris Johnson. This is standard.

We go live to Reform UK's investigation into Russian bribery.

I'm being asked for takes on COP30. If anyone has a swear box then they could make a few bob.

Gosh. I wonder if any more the English project to fuck us all into a cocked hat was supported by Russia and should maybe be undone?

The NCA concluded Banks was entitled to take a loan from Rock Holdings, an Isle of Man company he owns. The NCA did not establish the source of Rock Holdings' funds. Nobody ever has. For a company that didn't even have premises, it had plenty of cash. www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/public-...

Might be time to revisit this www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...

I'm sick of people cuntsplaining how to be disabled with zero income, frankly, Rachel. BUT HERE WE ARE.

NEW: Former Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10.5 years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…

How many older journalists and papers look back at their role whipping up hatred against gay people like me in the 80's and 90's with pride and a sense they did right? Very few. So what do *you*, today's journos and papers, think your prospects are after re-running same campaign against trans folk?

If you value my work and appreciate the fact that I put basic human decency and respect for human rights over my potential income, I'd really appreciate if you chipped into said crowdfunder here: gofund.me/55e3a6cf4

Again, I recall Michael Gove in Parliament basically saying to one pissed off Tory MP after another: Let’s just shitefest this disastrous drivel over the line and argue about the details later. An argument that appears to have won over basically everyone who matters, who then sold it to the public.

Rarely go beyond my remit to share other stuff but especially given *gestures broadly* it does feel like this hits a few nails on their heads, especially in terms of being someone for whom Twitter was an essential launch point and then having to just chuck it because it became a heinous fash factory

All those lefties at the BBC proving they're radical Marxist by flooding the airwaves with right-wing neoliberalis the day after the covid inquiry. #r4today

Today's newsletter includes my favourite Barnett formula story, on how govt withheld cash for the 2012 Olympics from the devolved administrations, I suppose on the basis that, while the Games were happening in England, the feel-good factor would be... UK-wide? ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/barnett-fo...

just seen someone say the labour immigration proposals are "disgraceful, but it's way better than anything the Tories would do" and i think some people need to have a deeply personal conversation with a thing called reality. labour has just done it, not the tories. so what now, genius?

It’s not the substance that counts for the Record, it’s the accusation. Disgracefully, the pandemic was treated as a political story rather than a health issue by all the papers and the broadcast media, with the BBC leading the charge. The aim, as ever, talk up Westminster, talk down Holyrood.

I remember being attacked on Twitter for being partisan by suggesting putting a corrupt incompetent egotistical narcissist in power during a pandemic was a recipe for disaster.

I like how for every other UK/devolved leader the report is like “the pandemic response was shambolic” and for Sturgeon is “she was too controlling”

Chuck this onto the now-teetering pile of official investigations with zero real world consequences for malfeasance in office and nobody going to prison, I guess.

So, #r4today reports on the Covid inquiry and the “too little, too late” Tory govt, then says they’ll be talking to *Lord* Gove about it. Ugh. That just sums up so much that’s so very wrong with our politics and media. Rewarding, rather than punishing, those responsible for failing us all.

If only there had been some indication that Boris Johnson and his cavalcade of bent wackos and self-centred idiots were incompetent and negligent.

the nominees were -a campaign to get lifechanging medication for extremely sick children -a campaign to improve access to justice for victims of rape and sexual assault -a transphobic hate campaign that managed to convince some judges to make the worst ruling in Supreme Court history* (*winner)

As I say there: this stuff and worse happens because everyone involved is playing with house money and other people’s lives.

You can maybe guess just how much stuff almost as bad as this or worse I collected in the latter half of 2019, and during Johnson’s reign. It’s quite a lot. bsky.app/profile/flyi...

This seems like a good time to remind people that everyone in politics and media knew very well that Johnson was a bent, disastrous imbecile and that he was made Tory leader *specifically because* he was the candidate the Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph and the Express would all get behind.

Not in the Covid Inquiry reporting today – How First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and the Scottish Government kept excess mortality here at just over half the UK average despite the delay in devolving responsibility and Johnson’s callous inertia – saving thousands of lives #ruyesyet #scottishrepublic

It's all well and good saying there should have been a four nations approach. But what the tap dancing fuck did you expect the devolved nations to do when the UK specifically chose not have a 4 nations approach by refusing to use rhe civil contingencies act and wanted to "let the bodies pile high?"

The inquiry seems to have based its conclusions on the idea that.devolved nations had identical powers, resources and responsibilities as the UK government. And notes difficult relationships between UK and devolved leaders. Without explaining that this was because the UKs was a mad lazy cunt.

The idea that the devolved nations should have unilaterally imposed lockdowns while the UK objected and refused to support is risible

It's a red blue and white wash. "Everybody did wrong" So sad, move on.

How this was ALL Nicolas fault actually for insufficiently loving Britain in tomorrows rags. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...