If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

This is why in Scotland the government supports care experienced young people until 26 - the evidence backs it up

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

There is a key moral distinction between immigration policy on new arrivals, no matter how draconian, and on people who have already been granted status, on set conditions. It is about being a country that keeps its word. If we're not that, we might as well fucking give up now.

A reminder to sign this and help stop the stupid and expensive ID card mistake.

We don't have the money to end child poverty, but a digital ID card to try and appease the far right, up pops the magic money tree.

I think there are reasonable arguments for the cards for most people to make it easier to get services etc. (And there are counter-arguments, of course.) But the idea that it controls/regularises immigration and the black economy is bollocks.

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

"They work for Putin, we work for you" The line is LITERALLY right there

Who will they blame whey they deport the foreigners but the country is still broken? Might it be you?

Will this mean they can’t track Santa anymore?!

This back to school season, more districts than ever have cell phone bans in place. Teachers and legislators alike say the restrictions help kids focus in class.

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The deadline to make your submission to Ofgem is this Friday. Don't let the man who switched off Starlink in Ukraine, helping Putin, have the keys to switch off your electricity here in the UK.

Glasgow airport is underrated, cheap parking is available very close, it’s small so you get through quickly and the dining options are improving all the time. Rotterdam in the old days was glorious, my dad used to drive up to the plane and drop me off at the stairs

I disagree. Scotland is a very congenial place to live. There are a few intolerable culture war arseholes who grate on the nerves, but then this country has always been plagued by midges

Good luck to all the P1s and their care givers starting school today in Scotland

Something is going on with wasps in the Central Belt in Scotland - went to minor injuries today with an infected wasp sting, 2 other people in with same issue. Everyone I have told says they know someone who has been stung by a wasp in last week or so

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from. It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

Someone should ask her whether she thinks a child cheating in a school exam is committing a worse crime than an adult hacking the computer of a political rival

Hun some of us are older than the PC, the mobile phone and the internet. I did marketing for early PC products & now my phone has more memory & processing power. Its been an amazing time in human evolution.

Weans' Scran & Kitchin are excited to announce: We’ve been awarded funding from ‪@firstportscotland.bsky.social‬ to grow our impact! This means more opportunities to provide cooking skills and community building sessions to care experienced kids #FirstportScotland

Something I've been keeping under my hat for a bit but it's really taking off so excited to announce that I've started a Social Enterprise...We are Weans' Scran & Kitchin - a children's cooking school and cooking cafe based in Glasgow Southside! www.instagram.com/weansscranki...

I welcome the UK Government’s commitment to recognise the State of Palestine, but it shouldn’t be subject to conditions. It must be unequivocal, irreversible and backed by sanctions on Israel. Israel must agree to a ceasefire now and allow more aid into Gaza to stop starvation.

I would argue that there's nothing MORE British than sticking two fingers up at a nazi and telling him to fuck off to somewhere nazis are welcome, or failing that, directly into the sea with stones in his pockets

There is no context - none at all - that justifies the deliberate, calculated starvation of children. #Gaza Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

In my case seafood - my kid loves seafood - here she is this weekend eating lobster in Arran - I have no more money but she is happy!

There is a lot of ill-informed commentary out there suggesting that the Afghan leak superinjunction is a story about transparency vs safety. That is not true, or at least it is not the full picture. Thread below.

Frankly I would believe Starmer regretted paraphrasing Enoch Powell somewhat more if he wasn't pushing ahead with the some of the most anti-immigration, anti-asylum, policies in decades. His "regret" doesn't make a difference when his actions are the same. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Disabled people could lose more than £10,000 a year as a result of Keir Starmer’s benefit cuts, a group of MPs has warned. In a damning report, the APPG on poverty said some claimants who will be made ineligible for PIP face losing £886 per month www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

This is welcome and long overdue. MPs are now calling on the UK government to ban trawling and dredging in "Marine Protected Areas". It's outrageous that this wholescale destruction is permitted anywhere, let alone in these "reserves". It has to stop. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

every column about pete hegseth, irregardless whatever the scandal of the day is, should end "also he doesn't believe in germs and never washes his hands." just keep tacking it on with the other stuff because it's so weird and gross

Organisers of the London marathon show more leadership than the government. And should be applauded for doing so. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

In Scotland schools are required by law to have uniforms that can be bought in supermarkets and are not allowed to penalise students for not wearing uniform

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

Everyone has been talking today about the film #Conclave and rightly so. But the film everyone should be watching is The Two Popes, the most beautiful two-hander, in which two of Britain’s greatest actors Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce play Benedict and Francis: www.imdb.com/title/tt8404...

Happy Easter from Loch Leven in the Highlands

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

Here's an alternate fantasy author who isn't an absolute cunt: Ursula K Le Guin

While I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

I'm optimistic that Starmer wouldn't do a deal with the US that would rule out an EU deal, but it's worth building pressure on Labour to make damn sure they don't. They're perfectly capable of making the most disasterous decisions www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

one day soon democrats might realise that "burn them all to the ground and salt the earth so this can never happen again" is the message people actually want to hear

My child attends a forest school so this season is all year for me - there are far too many sticks in my flat “I brought you this new special stick” they’re apparently all special so I can’t throw them out