I watched some of the Edinburgh Marathon runners in Port Seton today - a warm day, thankfully a little sea breeze would help them. A bit of mixed emotion for me, I had to pull out due to injury, but quite uplifting seeing all of those people running for charities. Well done everyone who ran today

Just 12% of the UK thinks that Brexit WASNT a mistake. No election, not one, is going to be lost because a Party is against Brexit. Just the billionaire Media is desperate for you to think that.

Wes Streeting, the member for Palantir North.

Does that include the £5mn?

Farage doesn't think the usual rules apply to him. He thinks he's a special case and that the world needs to stand around clapping as some Thai dwelling crypto billionaire hands him £5 million for making Brexit happen. This is NOT normal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Currently listening to the Tarantula LP by Ride. Really good tunes on this. Only my 4th listen, and I must listen to this more. I own 1 CD (had that for years) and 1 LP (bought this year) by this band - I'm not sure why I don't have more, but I'm going to check what else they've done.

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022. He's now offering to "put things right". Go on then Richard - resign. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The IMF see it - our reliance on gas is our problem - not just that we use it for making power though, that we allow the price of gas to set the price of the wind and sun here in Britain. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

@babelfishnews.bsky.social Labour need to speed up reform or risk losing voters to Reform. Frustration, inequality and slow change are driving support of Farage and co. www.babelfish.news/reform-needs...

im white and dont have a tic disorder, so i dont have anything useful to add to the BAFTA situation. i do wanna boost this one user on tiktok, sh4ysgrwm, a Black woman with Tourettes, and her video series talking about her POV on this incident. www.tiktok.com/@sh4ysgrwm/v...

re. BAFTAs and John Davidson's involuntary vocal outburst - Listen to this exceptional young woman on Tourette’s Syndrome 👇

I bought the new album/gig tickets package from Assai Records, Edinburgh- great show and, the record is a thing of beauty. I bought the CD too but, have to admit, I've always been a fan of coloured vinyl and some, like this, are really nice on the eye, as well as the ears.

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Marking the 8th anniversary of Mark E. Smith passing away. I have plenty of albums to choose from - this one came to hand first.

One from a batch I bought recently from Fuzz Club. All of the new to my ears - this one of two that I get by The Men. Punk rock New York style - it's a good record. I am listening to the next one now - wouldn't have minded seeing these live in a club.

Between 2012-2020 the Government sold off student loan debt to Private Companies, the interest rates are now usually double inflation or more. Also the level and amount you repay goes up and up and up as thresholds will be frozen forever.

This can’t go on. UK news shows have got to start calling Nigel Farage out on this ridiculous bull****. Please start doing your job - for all our sakes

Call it “mutual” and suddenly people get it.

Why should billionaires be able to pass on billions tax free?

In case you’re worried about how he’ll cope, here’s a picture of his house.

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

The Rezillos: The Old Grey Whistle Test (26/09/1978) youtu.be/DjM_uXecZoU?... @garycrowleyonair.bsky.social @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @carolinebinnie.bsky.social @grantmcphee.bsky.social @neilcooper.bsky.social @creepingbent.bsky.social

Universal Credit per child is £292.81 per month. Meaning with JUST 35 children (all have to be under 18), you could get £140,000 a year. Must be loads of families doing this...

New Gold Dream

Sergei Cristo. Of the bombshell podcast series Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring. Always worth listening to and reading what Sergei has to say and add, as much as @peterjukes.bsky.social at Byline Times, and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social now at @thenerve.news (formerly with the Guardian/Observer).

After another week of banging on about immigration, Keir Starmer's ratings fall to their lowest ever level. At what point do Labour strategists start to think that maybe this isn't quite the winning strategy they believed?

In 2023-24 HMRC issued 456 penalties to wealthy individuals for £5.8m, 25 prosecuted. Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024. Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.

Oasis were tremendous in Melbourne last night.

Cost of Privatization, Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping. Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers. Public ownership is the only way out.

Portobello, Edinburgh.

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

UK big four banks on course to pocket annual profits of more than £45bn. Bank branches vanishing. Profits from high charges, low interest rates on savings, scandals, speculation. Govt must levy windfall taxes on banks.

No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity. They are appeasing Trump, stock markets and shareholders. Exec pay rockets as the environment harmed. Claims of social responsibility are a PR hype.

More good news today, if true - Labour will bring a little more fairness to the tax system by ending the tax loophole of Limited Liability Partnerships - favoured by doctors, accountants and lawyers. buff.ly/zYullPl

#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...

Headline grabbing controversy is what's feeding the Reform interest; they have nothing to offer except more hate and division. Will you be voting for this? 🤔🤷‍♂️

Reform is a (bad) mood and not a political party in the traditional sense. Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs. No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that. You cannot defeat delusion with reason. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Glasgow always outnumbers racists and I’ve never been prouder of my city 🥹

The One Show came to Forest Green (Rovers) this weekend to talk about football as medicine. Tune in tonight at 7pm to see it…:)

A little unexpected September sunshine today. The dog is enjoying the morning sun just as much as me.

Barbarians at the Gate Pope Leo criticises pay packages of Elon Musk and other corporate chiefs. Millions/Billions toil in poverty. Super rich use wealth to fund far-right groups; buy political parties, legislators, media, ferment social unrest, manipulate democracies. Need wealth taxes.

UK employee median wage £30,816 (net £25,707). Millions barely survive, bosses collect up to 1,112 times average wage. 37% on Universal Credit claimants are at work. People surviving on food banks, charity. Can't revive economy without redistribution.

Scott Marsden heads to York & Derby this weekend for some more Solo Acoustic Vibes. Tickets Available from the links! Friday 19th Sept - York The Fulford Arms Tickets 🎟 👇 www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Yor... Saturday 20th Sep - Derby Mr Shaws House Tickets 🎟 👇 www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Der...

Are you going to this exhibition @kennybrown131.bsky.social

I dont often do links like this, but I really like the previous 3 boxes of organic fruit I got. This time, it's mangos for me but plenty to choose from. It's worth a try if you want organic/moving to organic, European fruit picked and shipped without storage or air involved. cfarm.co/mgm?lc=LCCMJ...

Jewish Miriam Margolyes "It seems to me Hitler has won." She never beats around the bush.

I bought this in Dunbar today. 12" vinyl and in mint condition. A great addition to my collection.

Well done @politics.mirror.co.uk, great headline. 👏 👏 Nothing seems to get Farage angry quite like being asked about his tax affairs, yet he’s so happy to talk about others. #NeverFarage #NeverVoteReform

Maybe Angela Rayner is toast. But the right-wing media have been on a witch hunt to get her for years. They think she is dangerous, a radical & a working class woman with attitude & ideas. In all the noise & claim & counter-claim Lib Dem Ed Davey showed humanity and decency.

BBC Scotland yesterday - Celtic crashed out of the Champions League. This morning, Rangers missed out on the Champions League. I think it's patently obviously which result is more of a crash, and it's not that. I'm not excusing Celtic BTW but the language used seems weird.