brace yourselves. tomorrow 4,327 over-caffeinated right-wing nerds with calculators will crowd the airwaves telling us in nineteen different ways why the Budget is utterly, utterly dreadful, so all the rich people will be moving to Dubai tomorrow. but Brexit was fab and was not their fault anyway.

BBCRadio4 Today prog this morning: 1 a woman who wants to stop children who believe they could be trans from getting puberty blockers. no counter argument offered. 2 the biographer of Farage, when pressed repeatedly admits he doesn't think Farage is a racist "now." no counter argument offered.

In other words: "growth will be downgraded for every year that we stick with Brexit." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Things move quickly in politics. The idea of a Sunday broadsheet dedicating it's entire front page to @greenparty.org.uk is huge, and let's be honest, a sign of changing times. People are sitting up and noticing @zackpolanski.bsky.social join.greenparty.org.uk

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

‘As the UK Government fails to lift a finger to save Scottish industry, another industrial plant is set to close threatening thousands of jobs. Also, there's a warning that Scotland could be collateral damage if the AI bubble bursts.’ youtube.com/watch?v=nrIk...

imagine moving to Russia because you are terrified of gays.🤔 news.sky.com/story/meet-t...

🤔🤯 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

⭐️ EXCLUSIVE: John Lewis Christmas Ads In DANGER. 👇🏻 Please watch and share this #BrokenNews report. youtu.be/kwfpyV19CQo?...

oh. news.sky.com/story/former...

A quote from Professor Sir Chris Whitty CMO for England: "Just to acknowledge the really great work done in Scotland. Scotland has actually blazed a trail in many areas of Public Health." Listening to WM's broadcasters you'd be surprised to hear it . @BBCNews @SkyNews @itvnews

You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Missed by the COVID enquiry – 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 talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/20/n...

AI 10x faster: “Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have developed a software system called WaferLLM, designed specifically for wafer-scale chips to help improve their performance...” I expect this to be reported as a “breakthrough from a British university“

Whow. Congratulations. Look at that swing. If you want to be part of results like this: join.greenparty.org.uk

Some are forgetting how Westminster stopped Scotland from responding sooner. Gosh I wonder why, couldn’t possibly be independence is growing?

No-one is perfect but there is no doubt that the delaying of a ‘shutdown’ decision by WM cost so many people dearly. The Scottish Gov’t could not order a shutdown without the financial offset of a furlough scheme - and that was impossible to fund as HR cannot run up a deficit. Awful memories.

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?"

hearing the commentariat & MSM using the publication of the Covid Report as another opportunity to castigate Nicola Sturgeon. this is a travesty. she was a hero, relentlessly toiling with the LIMITED POWERS of Scotgov to mitigate the self-absorbed calamity that was Boris Johnson's so-called govt.

on receiving the news that the Covid Report was very damning of Boris Johnson's narcissistic,vacillating laziness & misogyny, LBC's Andrew Marr did the only thing he could: he had Nadine Dorries on to refute these findings and tell all the listeners what an outstanding moral hero Boris really is. 🤔

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

"The House of Lords is the only governing assembly outside the Muslim world in which clergy can sit ex officio. It must be one of the few in which membership can be bought and is therefore blatantly corrupt. " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

President Trump is openly calling for the death of six Democratic members of Congress. Their “crime” was reminding the military and intelligence community that they can refuse illegal orders and that their oath is to the Constitution, not to him.

just think about all the ways in which this is a really bad idea: www.thenational.scot/news/2563615...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... oh.

who would win in a fight between Donald Trump and Miss Piggy? and would you pay to see this on live TV?

now imagine if, during eg Any Questions, or an interview on BBC or SkyNews, a Leader of any political Party had responded to a questioner, "Quiet, Piggy." career-ending.

The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this just in: apparently the Epstein Files have absolutely no references to Trump at all. or any Republicans, or any billionaires. there have been a huge number of redactions, admittedly, but who can possibly say what they are about? 🤷‍♂️

Epstein files released (now that Trump tells his acolytes they should vote for it). But guess what? Any risk to "National Security" will result in redactions. For instance, if, say, the President were to be mentioned at all - that would clearly be a risk to National Security, right? oh.🫤

From Germany: "The UK wants to abolish the obligation to support asylum seekers that became EU law in 2005. UK had 84,200 asylum applications in 2024. From 2011 – 2020 (before Brexit) the average was 27,500 applications per year. By comparison, in Germany, 250,945 people applied for asylum in 2024."

"Even if we fainted at the company, we couldn’t take a day off and go home. If we took that day off, our pay would be cut, and if we took three days off, the company would fire us." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anyone still supporting trump is a degenerate. It’s that simple.

This is so spot on!

Greene also said that as a Republican who votes “overwhelmingly” in favor of party legislation, “[Trump's] aggression against me also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone” . www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“What is the largest water company in the country doing trying to run an MP off the road, saying they want to deter me & others from taking such actions? What is govt doing letting a bunch of people run the largest water utility in the country & behave this way?” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social the reason for right wing propaganda about crime being out of control in left-voting London is easy to understand: just look at MAGA telling voters in USA crime is out of control in Democrat-voting cities of Portland and Los Angeles, to justify sending in the National Guard.

mixed feelings about this for environmental and political reasons (they're shipping our electricity down to England while Scotland pays highest rates for it). but as someone who lives in the North, the investment will be welcome. we had a power cut just yesterday.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.

In the same week a news hurricane engulfs the BBC in the UK, the NYT: hold my beer. To be fair, I believe the NYT deserves a shitstorm: it does brilliant journalism. It’s also untransparent & unaccountable

how very handy for Reform, who will now be able to dodge the scrutiny of Kuensberg's documentary. 🤔 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"He doesn't care if he wins or not. The point is to intimidate and punish those he views as critical to him." www.bbc.com/news/article...

With any previous President of the United States, I never woke up in the morning with my first thought being, "What enormously stupid, destructive, perverse and wicked thing will the President do today?" I miss those long-lost days..

Sooo many complaints re Reform positive bias - ignored. One complaint re left wing bias - board sacked. Guess who controls the BBC?

apparently it is perfectly ok for broadcasters to mislead the public all the time, like Fox or GBeebies. I suppose they see this as simply championing a righteous (far right) political perspective. But misleading occasionally, as the BBC have done, is heinous and deserves the harshest of censure. 🤔

Those of us in Scotland have had to put up with hugely biased output from BBC & Radio Scotland for years. Their anti SNP reporting is obvious (see some examples below), but apparently, it takes bias to someone in a foreign country for anyone to care. #bbc

Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK. And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there. THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.

Centuries of overgrazing & muirburn for grouse moors mean Highland Scotland looks treeless & desolate. But it doesn't have to be this way. New film Scotland's Missing Forests went online y'day. Chuffed to see almost 10k views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social