“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

How endangered a species do journalists in Scotland have to become before civil society and the state step in to conserve what’s left? STV to cut 60 jobs and axe north news programme www.bbc.com/news/article...

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

Malignant normality around us: when my mum switches on her Samsung TV, this is the default screen. Far-right propaganda channel GB News perpetually appears at #1 on the presented list of channels.

It still is/does - you just don’t get a decent salary, expense account, or a relatively stable and cosy political consensus to operate within. bsky.app/profile/chad...

How does the inclusion of this (speculative) detail about the suspect’s partner serve the public interest?

Another thing I love about the present moment - Musk regularly goes 'don't worry, we are going to change THAT' whenever Grok produces an answer that doesn't align with his priors, yet the British Labour government thinks that they are going to be able to land an argument on there in 2029.

Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues

The UK government occupies a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, and controls enough nuclear weapons to obliterate a continent. But it's afraid of these people. People its own population despises.

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

He’s very good at channeling a creeping sense of “nothing works & nobody cares.” Tougher sell is moving beyond basic 40 year premise of UK politics - that you mitigate collapsing systems via individual escape routes (rent > ownership, buses > cars, social > private etc). bsky.app/profile/zack...

Unprecedented collapse in Higher Education and yet I don’t know of a single manager who has overseen it get shitcanned - just academics.

Spike in the use of “I rise to speak…” is shown via Hansard in the Commons and Lords in the past year Read the full story here: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

"Money buys influence in British democracy" My evidence from Parliament yesterday on threats from foreign influence in British politics. Full video on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel (Do subscribe!!) www.youtube.com/@Democracy_f...

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

If I was starting again I'd *definitely* go for this. The Mill and its other group of newspapers are really exciting. manchestermill.co.uk/email/d78b2b...

Liberal democracy collapsed on 9/11 - and our politics is descending into conflict over who gets to shelter in the comfier corners of the ruins. bsky.app/profile/shoa...

In a just universe he’d be saying these exact words from a golf club bar stool and the staff would wear vacant expressions of weary indulgence, just like those on show here. bsky.app/profile/atru...

When flags are used to bring people together rather than tear them apart. #BargaScottishweekend - a celebration of emigration/immigration.

Just gonna put it out there - an organisation whose primary driver is to pretend the past decade of its history didn’t happen will never alight on effective forms of leadership!

Being surveyed about your girlfriend

We put a lot of muscle—reporting, editing, fact checking, designing, engineering—into this very deep dive on Wikipedia, which is now threatened by Trump, tech billionaires, and AI

Also it anticipates various aspects of the podcast format: deep dives, conversational, interventionist host, authentic, non-topical, mostly consisting of folk with minimum media training. Non-linear audio at its finest! bsky.app/profile/alex...

If you’ve listened to the episode where Melyn *loses his shit* over a materialist account of the Industrial Revolution, this all makes sense bsky.app/profile/alex...

If you're based in or near Aberdeen we'd love to see you at our Open Newsroom. It's the first one we've held outside Glasgow so really looking forward to it.

Telling it like it is, and cutting through.

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

It's our 30th anniversary this month! To celebrate we are dropping our paywall until 4th September, just in time for our new issue, which comes out tomorrow. Visit @prospectmagazine.co.uk and register your email when prompted to access our entire archive >> www.prospectmagazine.co.uk?_gl=1*5n8ucc...

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I don't think I've used this word much, if ever, to talk about public policy. But some of the things being both said and implied about migrants are evil. And we should say that.

Wikipedia is one of the greatest accomplishments of the internet and a testament to an open volunteer ethos. But it’s now under threat on both sides of the Atlantic. The vindictive US attacks are matched by the cluelessness of the UK Online Safety Act. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08...

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

i'm the guy spending seventy two pounds on a first class ticket to perth from glasgow. i alone subsidise scottish railway travel for the rest of the country and i am millions of pounds in debt

Can’t fathom any outcome from the current Holyrood scandal which doesn’t once again reflect the essential weakness of major institutional players in Scottish public life.

My The Scotsman obituary of the great Giles Havergal, who died last weekend. May his spirit stay with us, as we travel on. www.scotsman.com/news/people/...

Underrated point! Collapse of written news into traffic chasing via a small number of algorithms (Facebook, Google homepage, whatever bollocks your browser is pushing) rewards super-simple clicky headlines. If you’re under pressure to hit a click target, the Reform narrative keeps your boss happy.

There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.

get his ass

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today. Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

❗ Detienen al guionista Paul Laverty, acusado de terroroismo por su apoyo a la organización Palestine Action: "Genocidio en Palestina, es hora de actuar" www.eldiario.es/cultura/cine...

Council housing is the hero of this tale and underpinned an unprecedented flowering of youth sub/pop cultures. Bring it back! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Timeline 28: 1982 - Following the breakout success of Lanark Alasdair joined with Liz Lochhead & Tom Leonard to perform a review for the Edinburgh Fringe. Lanark wins the Frederick Niven Award. The prize money was substantial, but Alasdair donated it all to the miners’ strike 💪🏽

Quite apart from the headline, the reporting in this piece is unforgivably misleading from the BBC. In her tweet, between "mass deportation now" and "if that makes me racist, so be it" she wrote "set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care". THAT's why she was guilty!

For the @newstatesman.com i profiled Dominic Cummings – a case study in elite radicalisation www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/0...

your job is to look out the window and say IT'S RAINING BULLSH*T!

We need less think pieces on how new media is radicalizing the young and more think pieces on how old media is radicalizing the old

With 12 days to go, Isla needs £500 per day in kickstarter donations to ensure she raises the needed funds. Have a look at the rewards. This is not charity but advance support for an artistic project in return for meaningful rewards including the album itself www.kickstarter.com/projects/isl...

Very bad but still not as bad as that fucking awful film about tennis