There is a fight within Your Party to ensure that it lives up to the grassroots promise that it was founded on – and I think it would do the Westminster bubble well to remember that this movement does not belong to them. www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

What are you willing to bet that Keir Starmer's "progressive fightback" won't include supporting the rights of trans people?

This would carry more weight if you hadn't spent the last year cheerleading for the Cass Report

Having relentlessly supported "decline and division" in the UK, Labour will now lead the fightback against “decline and division” in the UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The launch of the left-wing alternative Your Party has been, let’s say, a little rocky - but I suspect that all declarations of the death of Your Party may be greatly exaggerated. www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

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There's something about transphobia that makes some folk proud to look this stupid in public.

The National's front page today asks a big question: Is it a crime to share a picture of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump? 👇

No words.

Vital column from @elliebgomersall.bsky.social in @scotnational.bsky.social today. www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

A UN investigation has found that Israel is comitting genocide in Gaza - something we have all witnessed for nearly two years. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Charlie Kirk was a bad person and his death is cause for celebration, writes journalist Evan Urquhart. Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

The same folk throwing up Nazi salutes at rallies (or at the very least, standing next to those who do) are now telling us how unfair it is to be called a Nazi.

Rest in piss, Charlie Kirk.

All of this is correct, though? Kirk was a bigot. He hated the marginalized. If it was you instead of him he would laugh. He was a terrible man.

Violence has no place in America. That's why Kamala supported dropping bombs in Gaza instead, I guess.

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

"Unlike Linehan, in court charged with harassing a trans teenager and smashing their phone (this was before he urged his online followers to physically attack trans people), Mo Chara’s ‘terrorist’ charge involved touching a flag thrown on stage at a gig." www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Funny how "protecting women" is so important to Wes when it comes to smearing the trans community, but not when it comes to his pals who appear to be an actual threat...

Glasgow's Reform councllor thinks Kenmure Street wouldn't happen again. I say he doesn't understand the people he supposedly represents. www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.

"Tony Blair took part in a White House meeting with US president Donald Trump to discuss Gaza after the war" A reminder that the Tony Blair Institute recently helped produce a plan to forcibly expel the entire civilian population from Gaza #GMB

'There might be enough blame to condemn us all, but rightfully it sits on the shoulders of just a few. This is not the world’s famine, but a famine of the West.' www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

I've seen this image a few times now and assumed it was a piss take, but...it's not...

A comical amount of Labour messaging recently has just been foot stomping tantrums about not getting their own way.

Labour's complicity in the genocide of Palestinians continues, it seems. Even if Elbit isn't the final winner, how could Labour think it appropriate to even entertain the idea. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...

That quote from newsom is an insane thing to say as an adult.

They were LITERALLY protesting against JK Rowling's best mate and partner in Lumos etc Baroness Nicholson. Literally. Truth doesn't matter any more. Today they're protesting against HER.

NEW: The National is launching a new series highlighting positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland. The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice

I was at this panel between Rylan and Russell Tovey at the TV festival, and it was a genuinely excellent discussion. Not just on trans rights, but on class and growing up gay too. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

And when John Boyne says in his Telegraph piece that writers aren’t meant to “denigrate, insult and push people to a point where those that are emotionally vulnerable might not survive their attacks”, all I can say is that he wrote the words below.

I think it's really worth shouting out that the first 2 people to withdraw were black debut authors (Mae Diansangu followed by Jason Okundaye). They both had some of the most to lose by doing so before others did, and yet they did anyway. I'm grateful to all who withdrew, but to them especially.

Look at that solidarity gets the goods

“He was asking what he had done wrong […] and if the teachers don’t like him,” said his mother Anne, 45. Jake said he was planning to avoid using the toilet at school by limiting the amount he drinks, and was even worrying about how much liquid was in his yoghurt at breakfast” 11 year old trans boy

Update: 16 of 24 authors and 2 judges have now withdrawn. First Book: Curtis Garner Jason Okundaye Sacha Coward Sanah Ahsan Amy Twigg Mae Diansangu Eleanor Medhurst Hanako Footman Ciara Maguire June Thomas Main: Olumide Popoola Robert Hamberger Dean Atta Andrew McMillan Rhian Elizabeth Jane Traies

So let's get this straight. *Someone*, possibly a well-resourced individual or entity is paying for JD Vance's private holiday to the UK, while the taxpayer is having to foot the bill for his personal security, which also involves invasions of privacy uk.news.yahoo.com/thames-valle...

It's three years this week since the UK media reported that 1000 families were going to sue the Tavistock (Gender Identity Clinic) for medical mispractice. There wasn't one "family", let alone 1000. It was clear, at the time, that it was bullshit propaganda, and even clearer now. 1/

Good. If you want to be a sad wee bigot, you still can! Just do it somewhere else. We don't need transphobia to be further normalised by useful idiots who treat it as just another talking point.

Lol lmao i mean youre still doing Harry Potter so get fucked but very funny tho how this fully acknowledges the Harry Potter brand and trans rights are fully opposed to the point of businesses trying to do carbon offset but for fascist collaboration lmao www.them.us/story/czech-...

In some ways actors for the new stuff acknowledging the transphobia they are standing with is worse than if they just stay silent or even overtly support it. “Yes i know i am collaborating with the worlds no.1 transphobe destroying trans rights, HOWEVER“

Who are these assholes that keep insisting they understand why it's painful but then continue on doing the harm? You can't just say, "gee, that's hard, I'm an ally, anyway"

“Court documents indicate how national security concerns were not a central factor in the Home Office’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action. “Indeed, they barely feature in the government’s open evidence.” 👉 Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...

There was a time that suggesting we start building camps for people would have been considered beyond outrageous. Now it's just a Tuesday. www.thenational.scot/news/2538089...

This is cinema.

Wes Streeting held a meeting with: • Genspect • Bayswater Support Group • CAN-SG • Integrated Psychology Clinic • LGB Alliance • Transgender Trend "To discuss gender policy issues"

The targeted killing of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on Sunday means at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of October 2023. No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of journalists killed.

Labour talking heads were spitting out the word “terrorist” on repeat, when the news broke of the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, along with fellow correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal. www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

The Labour party is tightening a noose around our rights and liberties. www.thenational.scot/politics/253...

These kids were already approved months before the new rules came in, they are supposed to be left alone. The NHS is threatening the clinic that they must remove treatment. They've already forced one pro-trans Dr out.

The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead