Rarely does banning or criminalising something stop young people from doing it. The novel approach would be sitting down with fan groups. Personally, I don’t like pyro but that’s because I’m not a twenty year old ultra. Need to find ways of talking to each other, rather than the headmaster approach.

“Right, lads. Keep the message tight and concise. Nothing fucking stupid. We need a reset to try and build some sort of credibility.” Interviewer: “Does the budget go for enough to help working class people?” Ayoub Khan: “I KILLED A DOG ONCE.”

Client journalism of the most embarrassing order. Other parties, charities and various other organisations have been pushing this for many years before Sarwar and Labour decided it was politically expedient.

Would be as far from a Rachel Reeves fan as it’s possible to be, but Badenoch is just a properly horrible individual.

Not sure Rachel Reeves goading the SNP about flinging some pocket money Scotland’s way looks as good as she thinks it does.

The thing with the Farage racism stuff is that it won’t lose him a single vote. Not one.

The Herald continuing to plummet into irrelevance. A publication now almost exclusively for angry old white guys who are scared of an evolving world.

Ah not Mani ffs. That’s a bad one.

I imagine these councillors will treat any feedback as optional, just like the pledge they signed to gain a new democratic mandate if they switched political party

Mind when Matthew Lindsay got the crayons out to scribe this masterpiece?

Morning. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

If there’s a situation where you think “oh no, they wouldn’t actually go that far!” with this Labour government, let me tell you that they absolutely would. Cutting aid to the poorest people on the planet, helping to facilitate a genocide, now actively targeting asylum seekers and refugees.

More chance of me pinging a 30 yarder into the top bin at Hampden tomorrow night than there is of this happening.

Tantalisingly close to an important breakthrough

BBC can’t get enough of Queen’s Park. On House of Games and the next three games live on TV. Box office.

Immigration and asylum policies do not make people racist. Pandering to these people does embolden them, though. The United Kingdom is irredeemably fucked.

Nigel Farage may not be in government, but he’s most certainly in power. These cowards haven’t stopped dancing to his tune since they took office.

The framing of this headline, as if both instances are connected, has me creased here.

Going to be hilarious when he loses his seat to Leanne Mohamad at the next election. A thoroughly, thoroughly unpleasant man.

A hilariously bad operation from top to bottom.

Just the best place in the world.

I don’t particularly like Andy Burnham, but he looks like the only one who can feasibly hold a lot of the seats in the north of England that Labour need. He needs a way into Westminster, though. Miliband couldn’t beat a wet wipe like Cameron, so he’s not going to beat a gutter dweller like Farage.

Amendment defies logic. “New developments must only proceed if they meet a rigorous climate compatibility assessment and are compatible with Scotland's journey to net zero.” Drilling for new oil, by very definition, cannot do that. Extremely disappointing to see no pushback from any SNP MSPs.

What’s new?

Finally saw ‘I Swear.” Absolutely superb, uplifting stuff.

I know it’s not a fashionable opinion to defend the use of huge amounts of land for golf courses. However, cooncil golf is/was basically a different sport from posh golf. Been taken away, almost completely, from the working classes. It shouldn’t just be for folk with a few quid and tourists.

Generally been something I think the SNP has acted in good faith on, but until John Swinney is unequivocal about Rosebank then there are huge lingering questions over whether the environment and climate crisis has slipped way down the pecking order.

He’s going to have to be clear on this. The boiling of the planet is not an insignificant issue for a decent chunk of the electorate. Can’t go into May dancing around it.

Made the mistake of watching Debate Night. The way people talk about fellow human beings would make you sick.

A spooky looking eve.

Pardon?

A sky situation going on.

I know you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but absolutely fuck that when it comes to Dick Cheney.

Every neighbourhood should have a cat mayor. Brilliant wee bastards.

Love Oasis and What’s the Story? but the one thing that always comes to mind when Don’t Look Back In Anger comes on is poor old Geordie crossing the Tyne Bridge in Our Friends in the North.

In the run up to the election? Shocked and stunned, I tell you. The amount of press coverage it gets against the number of people actually purchasing it is going to be one of the most skewed events in history.

Seeing people lose their seats in daylight just isn’t the same. Like the sun shining during a Champions League final. Completely against nature.

Inverness's Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald could usefully remind himself that he is talking about human beings here

imagine how much the person who chose the picture here must dislike Kevin McKenna

There’s a smashing big mural of John Hume in Derry and I’ve always thought the big wall looking down from the side of Marlborough across from the Langside Halls would be a class bit for a MacLean one. Would put the story right in the middle of a busy Southside area as well.

A statement saying both that they haven't decided their policy on indy yet and that they're the only ones who'd deliver it correctly at the same time is actually ridiculous

Reform losing an election they were expected to win and the left candidate absolutely romping the Irish presidential election. Just the dimmest, slightest glimmer of hope starting to show.

Deeply, deeply unserious people.

Everything I have to say about this would either be a risk of defamation or contempt of court.

A fantastic time for splitting the vote from Your Party. Really ideal. Nobody will want them to eat into the Green vote more than Reform.

I’m sure these champions of grass roots community politics and local democracy will be standing in by-elections, now that they’ve changed platforms from the ones they were elected on @danhutchison.bsky.social @seonadhoy.bsky.social?

I don’t think this can be underplayed. Lots of plates shifting, but it’s a decisive win for progressive politics over hate. This is not the narrative that has been consistently rammed down our throats by the media.

Devastating for the families, but wholly unsurprising. It was never going to be anything else. The British establishment will always protect their own. You can get away with murder if you wear the right uniform.

This mob are going to get increasingly more annoying. Scotland has an alternative on the left and adding a faction will gift Reform more seats. With the Greens polling well in England, you could argue similar there. They need to lose the Corbyn obsession.

This is absolute textbook Starmer.