During the Caerphilly byelection campaign, the BBC will restrain itself from mentioning the fact that the Reform candidate was the assistant of the former Welsh party leader Nathan Gill, soon to be sentenced for fraud after accepting Russian money. So why bother? #wato

What you won’t see on the BBC: Scotland Drug Deaths ↓13% Alcohol Deaths ↓7% Knife Homicides no increase/decrease Homelessness Deaths ↓18% England Drug Deaths ↑11% Alcohol Deaths ↑7% Knife Homicides in 2023/24 ↑8% Homelessness Deaths ↑ 16%

Leaving the ECHR would hand Putin a huge victory. Those who advocate doing so are colluding with an enemy of our country. They are traitors.

via People's Chancellor - Economics For The Many

Oh aye...send this lowlife up to one of their many English owned castles Why can this be allowed I pray that Scotland can be done with these royal parasites when we leave this toxic disunited grubby Britain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Home Office ministers and officials - and pretty much any political party spokesperson except maybe the Greens and the SNP *long ago* forfeited any right to be treated as acting in good faith when they speak on migration. They lie. They make shit up. And they do it because journalists let them.

I do hope that if they do choose to become immigrants in another country they plan to fully assimilate, abandon any home culture, become fluent in the new language, make no claim on state services or pensions, and fulfil all the other demands they make of people choosing to live here.

The victor writes the history. And never truer than in the involuntary union of Scotland with England. Here's a useful recap from the losing side... open.substack.com/pub/angrypic...

My watch just told me to 'believe in myself'. Right. OK, then. Watch, you are on my wrist to tell me the time 🤣 If I wanted self help advice, I would join a self help group. Fuck off.

Neoliberalism happened; taxes on billionaires and corporations were slashed, national assets were sold off to the lowest bidder, government functions were handed to corporations - the single largest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top in human history happened. We've been robbed blind

100% true.

This calm, cool decency is dangerously absent from our discourse at the moment. Almost everyone is embracing, normalising or ignoring the 'cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.' We need more Bertrands.

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.

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

The SNP introduced free tuition and we will always ensure Scottish students do not pay tuition fees. Meanwhile in England, students pay over £9,500 a year and Labour will put fees up every year. Education must always be based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay.

The White House getting gutted for a one-man vanity project that benefits no one but said man, right after 7 million people said “please fuck off,” is such immaculate symbolism it’s making my head spin. Honestly, you really could not make it up at this point.

Words cannot express how toxic and dangerous this approach from Labour is. As soon as we start saying people are only welcome if they "give more than they take" we demonise the disabled, those who do unpaid care work, anyone who isn't a 'productive member of society'.

Anyone still think asylum hotels are the problem?

And now we go live to Kent County Council for the Reform group meeting.

'We've spent nearly 20 years now framing money as if it is all banknotes, there's a limited number of them and the "financial markets" are the police. This just isn't true. There are lots of ways to do things differently.' Robin McAlpine, via Common Weal

Loch Ard in autumn. Pic: James Alroca

And, of course, the nativist ghouls this performative cruelty is designed to appease either don’t know or don’t care about facts or figures.

The BBC declined the moment the Tory Party appointed Johnson as leader and he started planting his own team to control output. It was one of the most trusted sources of news worldwide until the Tories began their campaign to control output in order to get Brexit over the line…

THIS.

Andrew will still be referred to as a 'Prince', and his billionaire family will still cost the taxpayer £500 million every year. What kind of system would allow someone so demonstrably inappropriate to have such wealth and power? It's time to abolish the monarchy. 👉 greens.scot/AbolishTheMo...

The Scottish Greens have voted overwhelmingly in favour of decriminalising drugs and prescribing them through the NHS 👇

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is staring down the barrel of a Welsh by-election that could mark the beginning of the end for the Union, writes Xander Elliards ✍️ Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Israeli Police announce they have canceled a derby match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv that was set to take place tonight in the city’s Bloomfield Stadium, when fans began to riot. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Neoliberalism on steroids!

Nothing as yet on the BBC News site about the US 'No Kings' rallies today. Hundreds of thousands of people peacefully protesting & not a word from our national broadcaster. ITV is carrying the story. BBC not fit for purpose when it's deliberately covering up momentous events such as these.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Sounds like a genius plan.... #Fake4rseVictims #BanMaccabi #KickIzrahellOutOfFootball ⚽️ #BoycottIzrahell

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I'm thinking this through further and there is no difference between deporting people to form a "culturally coherent group of people" and Hitler saying jews could not be aryan. Caution around Godwin's Law should be dropped. Katie Lam has openly supported nazi ideology.

Just for context the owner of BetFred is worth about £3 billion, money which - let's face it - has in large part come from the poorer sections of society. But the government can't possibly tax gambling or they'll close their shops.

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

If you haven't come across her already, can you work out from this if she's a Labour or Conservative MP?

It's now 9 years since I saw this pinned to the wall in a local hospital, and not a week has gone by when I haven't thought about it. Who loses one shoe? Or did Diane only have one leg? If they know it's Diane's, why make a poster at all? Is it some kind of sinister threat?

Hope.

Just for clarity this does not apply to NHS Scotland as the SNP are not in the pockets of billionaires