There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Excellent statement but why is this on Best for Britain, are we drafting Radek Sikorski as the next British PM or something (at this point I have no objections tbh)

Poland's statement to Russia at the UN. "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA

It's not just the cybernats who are completely and utterly incapable of seeing past the constitution, their counterparts in the pro-Union camp are just as blinkered, obsessive, and incapable of considering politics in the round

It's absolutely astonishing we're nearly 20 years into SNP Governance and partisans for the Labour party, a party which has become an active participant in a hate movement against trans people and which is increasingly anti-migrant, still howl and squeal about the Nats being the real right wingers

Just remember we are behind you 45%. Anything you need, it’s possible we will be there to help

Here's my controversial take. Immigration is a thing that happens. It's not good and it's not bad. It's morally neutral. What *isn't* morally neutral is how we treat immigrants.

This is why, despite Labour’s fumbling attempts in the last couple of days to persuade people that they can be relied upon as allies in the fight against fascism, they very obviously can’t

I feel like if Farage came out next week and said "we should simply shoot foreigns where they stand" Labour would point out that in our great country gun ownership is a privilege not a right [ENDS]

The grain of truth in 'the centre-left being shit is how you get fascism' was that François Hollande tinkered on elite projects while being totally economically ineffective, was constantly assailed by the media, and wound up presiding over a sense of national humiliation

The annoying leftie posters were right, 'Dubai is just a normal fun holiday destination' really was a warning sign of fascism all along

I'm glad certain people are finding time on this horrendous morning to dunk on anyone who's noticed that the 2014 Better Together prospectus was total horseshit btw

One thing we've learned from the past decade is that cancel culture was not in fact real at elite levels and you could get away with saying what you liked without consequences. If we're going to deal with the current wave of racism, that needs to change.

[subtweeting] people wouldn't be having to spend a lot of time trying to correct Reform claims on this irrelevant website if the state broadcaster wasn't their full time PR agent and the Labour party ever tried to disagree with them.

Study for Wildlife. The man with the cluster, 1905 #artbots #matisse https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15486

"Ooooh, aren't the new camps where they're concentrating all of the foreigners so exciting! A politics nerd like me could talk about the policy implications but I just think the guards have such chic uniforms." -- Chris Mason, probably

They always start by saying it's legitimate to be concerned about flows, but ultimately the rage is about the stock. Think I've first said this as a silly quip ten years ago, and well, here we are

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

This xenophobic nonsense illustrates why the government's proposals to restrict settlement rights is not only wrong but politically self-defeating. Has just encouraged Reform to become even more extreme.

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

We decided it was better for a hundred thousand migrants to suffer than for one conservative to face the embarrassment of drawing a moral line anywhere at all and now here we are

Also: bear in mind that this is what’s being served up almost a full four years before the next General Election. At this rate, any 2029 manifesto offerings milder than indentured labour for anyone whose family arrived after 1066 would be a pleasant surprise

Those ghouls are lining my friends and my family up in their sights and labour have nothing to say for it

He's using TruthSocial DMs to give orders to his cabinet?

Looking up the Clyde just after sunset towards the centre of Glasgow from the Riverside Museum. I love this view, and I photograph it a lot, but this one from September 2023 is my favourite shot of it. #glasgow #reflections #cityscape #theclyde #riversidemuseum #glasgowatnight #nightphotography

A short thread on digital ID (cards) just to bear in mind. There are a few myths that I keep hearing about this idea that need clarifying/debunking. 1/10

Morning Awakening https://www.wikiart.org/en/alphonse-mucha/morning-awakening-1899

my millennial partner is trying to convince me Season 33 of the Simpsons is actually good 😔

Good news, better shamefully late than never. Everything is far far far too slow but the once solid wall of western support for Israel by default is eroding brick by brick for many months now.

Bouncing on your boy's dick is sapphobia but we're not ready for that conversation.

A deeply disturbing story which highlights the dangers of Meta owning multiple interlinked platforms with extremely complex privacy settings. Unmentioned here, though, is the reality that the algorithm only ends up recommending these images because lots of men *do* use these platforms to view them.

Lib Dem Tim Farron MP tells party conference Reform UK "spent a lot of their time [at conference] giving a platform to people who think that the Covid vaccines gave the royal family cancer, to self confessed convicted racists, and worst of all, Lembit Opik"

Let's be clear, making sure cis girls and women are afraid to build muscle mass, become stronger or faster, at the risk of being "under the suspicion of transidentity" is the end goal here. We've seen women pushing and discovering their potential, the rise of fascism will have none of that.

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.

I enjoy how sometimes you see left of center people talk about "the excesses of peak woke" like they're talking about the Great Terror or Stalin's Purges

Fash overwhelmed by anti-fascists in Glasgow. As always, we're joyful, singing ABBA and chanting, and the fascists are just standing gloomily, not even bothering to chant or sing.

Starmer trying for ID cards again so the range of situations in which trans people can get involuntarily outed will get wider, oh well good thing we didn't have a prominent trans voice crashing out this week about how 'liberal legal reforms' had been a worthless waste of everyone's time or anything

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is actually a very strong endorsement of nonviolent protest and electoralism, and it’s striking how few people seem to have actually read it given that it’s a) one of the most influential political texts since WWII and b) it isn’t very long

dr pepper is the scientist actually. you're thinking of dr pepper's monster

The media is very insistent that there were equal numbers of racists and anti-racists in Glasgow City centre but the photos seem to imply otherwise

It's easy to now forget this but part of why say anti-Polish or anti-Romanian sentiment isnt visible as much now in the UK is quite simply that Brexit did in fact destroy hundreds of thriving Eastern European communities across this island and send hundreds of thousands of us home.

The other aspect you touch upon here is both the Sturgeon and Trudeau projects are based around ID’ing women aged 25-55 as the core constituency for progressive politics and treating them as an important social, economic and political demographic and that too is beneath a lot of socialists

Oh for fuck's sake Shinners

If the tranny does not feel loved democracy and freedom will leave

The most successful centre-left electoral projects in the English-speaking world of the last 10-15 years have been the SNP and the Canadian Liberals under Trudeau

The Rocks at Pourville, Low Tide - 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9840

Our response to the drone attack in Poland was in no way adequate, so this is what we get now