The Scottish people have spoken … and now Westminster will ignore our voice A pro-independence majority will be elected once again in the Scottish Parliament. And once again, London will deny a referendum This is a democratic outrage and it must be resisted My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Joanna Cherry suggesting that Angus Robertson’s downfall was identity politics when he was beaten by LORNA SLATER OF THE GREENS is very funny.

Your occasional reminder that "AI" is shit: Every assertion in this "AI Overview" of the question "What coffee does John Scalzi drink" is wrong. I don't regularly drink coffee (and never black) I've never had black sesame jasmine cream tea, and I don't hang in coffee shops. Don't trust "AI" ever!

It is IMO important to recognise that Labour were *cheered to the rafters* by the national press and by their politician colleagues for telling their own supporters to fuck off. Probably worth bearing in mind, as we watch the same people scratch their heads and now ask: where did it all go wrong?

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar defeated in his own constituency of Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok by 24-year-old Glasgow city councillor Zen Ghani of the SNP.

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

Sorry, I just remembered that two years the CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was unceremoniously dragged from his private jet at Le Bourget Airport and was thrown in a Parisian jail for six days for failure to cooperate with French investigations into CSAM on his platform, and now I'm taking a moment.

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Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

"Once immigration is fixed" is a very revealing phrase. It shows what a lot of Labour MPs (and the government) think of us. We are a problem to be solved, not members of the community like everyone else. And our lives must be made harder to satisfy some mythical Red Wall voters.

Tonight drinks are bought and ready to be opened if... Jackie Baillie loses her seat: We pop the prosecco open Anas Sarwar resigns: The champagne comes out Keir Starmer resigns - Buckfast. Bottles and bottles of Buckfast

Happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough! What better excuse could there be to post Hot Young Attenborough, as a reminder that before he was the nation's favourite uncle, he was a suave twink with a glint in his eye that's definitely still there.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

The reason this disaster happened is that - exactly as they did in Scotland - the party’s most insufferable people point blank *refused* to believe nobody particularly likes them or wants what they’re selling, and that has just made them angrier, nastier and more determined to dig their heels in.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 we are so effing stupid in this country.

Bollocks. One, hardcovers are selling great, especially the ones that these days come with sprayed edges and illustrated end pages. Two, ditching hardcovers would absolutely gut author and bookseller incomes. You want to fuck up publishing? Kill the hardcover. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

Pathetic list of Daily-Mail-headline dogwhistles about pinko quangoes, beastly "equality laws", dirty immigrants and scrounging, skiving, malingering scumbags on "welfare". As if all of that were somehow the real problem, instead of the Brexit these Tory maggots pushed.

Another blockbuster year of sneaking by “Dossiers” Steve Reed and his little files full of nasty Facebook likes. Every time this guy drops a new banger, the entire British press melts down with joy, regardless of whether he’s shitehousing colleagues, opponents, the police or members of the public.

You probably don’t know the swelling score behind classics like Star Wars was orchestrated by a trans woman. This week, we tell the story of one of many trans women whose talent history has tried to erase 🏳️‍⚧️ Get it delivered to your inbox: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistoryweek/

If your baby bleeds to death because of your ignorance, you should be charged with manslaughter. You anti-vaccine idiots can ruin your own lives, but not other people’s. www.propublica.org/article/more...

I hate to upset followers but I will generally drop a like on just about anything you say to me, so long as it isn’t obviously crazy. For the most part, it’s just polite: acknowledging that someone has taken time out of their day to talk to you. Responding to everyone would be a full-time job.

Here is the official account of For Women Scotland saying that journalists should check the internet search history of a Green candidate simply because she is trans.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

What type of politics is it that huffs and puffs a bit about the far right announcing new plans for The Camps, but straps on explosives and flings themselves out of moving vehicles at left-libs like Polanski, screaming “Witness me!” as their pals point and shout “Witnessed”

What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for anyone? A new ITV drama shows how survivors of serial rapist John Worboys used the ECHR to hold the authorities to account for failing to protect women from violence. Find out more👇 🔗 www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/news/2026/5/...

❗Harriet Wistrich, CEO of the Centre for Women’s Justice, on the John Worboys case: The European Convention on Human Rights is often the only legal tool we have to challenge state institutions who fail to protect women and girls from violence👇 🔗 www.centreforwomensjustice.org.uk/news/2026/5/...

Bloody Canadians. news.stv.tv/west-central...

Yes, because it’s an election strategy and not an anti-racist one. It succeeds if it saves a hundred council seats.

They always thought they were speaking for a great moderate middle who like war, means testing and crackdowns and want to vote Labour, if offered these things. It turns out that the people who like that stuff are 1) a section of middle class professionals 2) some journalists and 3) themselves.

Prince of Wales sailing down the Clyde

Prince of Wales sailing down the Clyde

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

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Babe, wake up, new anti surveillance tech just dropped…

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Keir Starmer employed a known associate/friend of one of the worst pedophiles in history (and a man who'd been sacked from government twice before). A reminder of the MET Police's record(which Starmer is eager to brush over,apparently) in the past few years: Murder of Stephen Lawrence(1993): Perhaps

I think my eyes just rolled out of my head, across the floor, and under the stairs

Heckuva military campaign the U.S. government is enabling here. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I have raised the alarm about US tech in our public services but it took 12 months of FOI work to expose this litany of secret meetings. Disgraceful. We must reform lobbying so that advisors like this, and every MP, have to declare all meetings and influences. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

He asked ChatGPT for advice on a mass killing. Minutes later, two were dead. OpenAI is wrestling with how to handle its most chilling conversations.