Curse of Private Equity. PE firms cashing in on Britain’s special needs crisis. Councils paying £90,000 - £104,614 a year for day-pupils with complex needs to Abu Dhabi controlled entities. Council spending £2.2bn a year. No curbs on profiteering. archive.ph/LdXqs

Everybody should read this. Blair and Brown, a pair of Thatcher fan boys, put Mandleson in post to undermine democracy and to empower businesses’ abilities to profiteer.

8. Yet Gordon Brown’s government had massively increased the budget for the department, stuffed it with unelected ministers, and given Mandelson free rein to tailor public policy to corporate demands.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

So only now are the wheels of Peter Mandleson's bus are coming off🙄 Not because he maintained his relationship with Peado Epstein but because Mandleson leaked Government information to him BBC News - Faisal Islam: Mandelson, Darling and the conversation I can't forget www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes, they do. But then UK media hammers Labour for any misstep. For instance, U-turns. UK media conveniently forgets that by November 2021, Johnson had U-turned MORE THAN 30 TIMES!

Obama is not mentioned in the Epstein files Kamala Harris is not mentioned Joe Biden is not mentioned

the oldest adage in journalism is “follow the money” new in the FT:

That Bannon/Epstein video looks to me like a “coaching” session, to prepare Epstein for questions from an actual investigation. Clearly he “failed” as he didn’t live long enough to face those questions…

And then after discussing cooperation he “committed suicide” in his cell. And all the CCTV was lost… There’s no doubt that a lot of rich and powerful people did not want him to cooperate…

Any users on Upscrolled here? Early thoughts? I’m desperate for an ethical alternative to Zuckerberg and Musk…

For easy reference. On the left, "agitators" and "domestic terrorists". Or the right, presidentially pardonned "freedom fighters".

Reform has chosen as its candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection a far right activist who claims minority ethnic people born and brought up in the UK are not necessarily British. This is the party that BBC journalists are prohibited from describing as far right.

Yet another BBC report on the Stonehaven rail deaths fails to tell you that responsibility does not lie with the Scottish Government but in Westminster talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/26/y...

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

“Tory defects to Reform” is really bad English. The correct way to phrase this is “Tory defects go to Reform”. Sorted.

With the appalling BBC coverage of the murder of Alex Petti by ICE in Minneapolis: leading on "contrasting narratives" when the video evidence speaks for itself, people in England are finally waking up to what we in Scotland have been saying about the BBC for decades.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

When you explain it plainly, it’s hard not to see where we are as a country.

The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will discuss, with global lawmakers, the effects on democracy of concentrated media ownership. “No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.” mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...

Oh Donald is a fascist He wears a MAGA hat A psychotic deranged paedo And everyone knows that He’s a narcissistic toddler And he’s mad as a hatter Thank you very much For your attention to this matter!

Wow… This is what they mean when they talk about “red tape” getting in the way of business by the way…

Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure" "He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right" "What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"

The only people Trump stands up to are those he thinks are weaker than him. He is a coward.

Can we please stop calling him a strongman? This draft-dodging, flat-track, playground bully is anything but. Has he ever stood up to Putin or Xi Jinping? Trump is a coward — a lily-livered, yellow-bellied, bone-spurred coward. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump insulted US war dead last time he was in office, calling them “suckers” and “losers”. He is an unfit human being, never mind president.

the best time to disentangle our relationship with the world superpower led by an insane right-winger was 20 years ago, the second-best time is now

Oh.

Farage is the new Lord Haw Haw. When will the UK treat him like the pariah he is?

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Lets put 1000% tariffs on the orange goon’s golf courses. Ffs…

@icegov.bsky.social fuck you

@icegov.bsky.social Murdering c*nts. The world will remember Renee Good long after you dickwads are all consigned to the dustbin of history. Cartman has more fucking authority and commands greater fucking respect. Fuck you, fuck Trump, and fuck fascism.

This by @neilmackay.bsky.social is so baffling. And it's true. Every time I was up in Scotland I was astonished about how badly under- and misrepresented the independence movemnt is on the BBC. While its still going strong. Ignore this at your own peril. Plus it also undermines the BBC's authority

Money in politics matters because it buys power Dark money matters even more, because it shapes political debate without public even knowing it is happening Great to talk to @writesbright.bsky.social about who funds Free Speech Union democracyforsale.substack.com/p/follow-the...

Black bins for landfill, Orange bins for recycling plastics etc, Blue bin for recycling paper and cardboard, Reform bin for recycling Tories…

"Scotland increases its generation of cheap renewable energy for England and Wales, whilst continuing to pay more than anyone else to use its own energy locally" might be an alternative leader.

Donald Trump and JD Vance are accessories to murder. Everyone has seen the videos. Everyone knows it… Anyone who thinks the killing of Renee Good is legitimate has been radicalised.

Pyrotechnics bad, bigotry good. The weird face of Scottish Football when it comes to holding football clubs accountable for the actions of their fans… So glad I gave up participating in this tired, broken circus.

We send kids to school so they learn stuff. In order to learn they need to give their undivided attention to a teacher. Why are we even debating phones in schools??? Phone lockers. Every school. Phone goes in on arrival comes out on departure, (and MAY be consulted at lunch/breaks).

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Hegseth looks like a second rate TV evangelist. Mind you, so do a helluva lot of Trumps goons…

The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.

Where are the rest of the Epstein files?

Uneducated voters will always be a greater danger to this country than immigrants.

Has everyone forgotten about Epstein yet?

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

The position of the US is that it can kidnap the president of a foreign country and try him in a US court for alleged crimes which were not carried out under US jurisdiction but the US president cannot be tried in a US court for alleged crimes which were carried out under US jurisdiction.

Congress please do your job. Impeach. Remove. Convict.

Germany invaded Poland. We managed to fix that. Capitalism has invaded Venezuela. We cannot fix this. The World has changed in ways we cannot even begin to understand. Nations and countries are no longer sovereign…