Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Not only is it "failing to tackle" racist groups targeting those seeking asylum, it is reasonable, particularly as it includes those organising the St George's flag campaign which so many Labour MPs "understood", to say this government is emboldening them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Lies, damned lies and the Telegraph. They posted CSJ figures using an outrageously false comparison of 2 cases. It claimed a benefits family were better off by £18k than a working household when the real figure was £16k worse off. The details benefitsinthefuture.com #benefits #budget

Ask about the ridiculous income inequality in the UK and whether Labour MPs might have to vote to change that through taxation? Nah, let's suggest instead that they might have to vote to put sick and disabled people into poverty. And LG was too lefty for the BBC!

Up to 60k, go on, give it a share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Something that should be laid at the feet of Wes Streeting and likewise the SNP dragging their heels in Scotland - If hormone therapy saves the lives of trans youth, what, logically, does that mean denying that care achieves?

I am of course inclined to focus on the weapon's grade levels of inhumanity, cruelty, discrimination and racism involved in Labour's current policies, but on a purely practical level, they will utterly cripple the country, trash higher ed, the NHS, business etc, meaning everyone suffers.

Okay, fairly obvious, but, despite delusions of some, the UK is not a "main destination" for migration. It's actually a competitive market, jobs, students etc. Between Mahmood's, effectively xenophobic policies, and Reeve's budget targeting international students, the economy as a whole gets screwed

Can’t think why a trans person wouldn’t come forward to the British Transport Police and report that they’d been assaulted. Total mystery. 🤔

History has produced men more evil than Elon. There have also been stupider men than Elon. But history has never before brought us a man so singularly, transcendentally pathetic than Elon. The Angel of History beholds him and cringes so hard that entire centuries of memory vanish from its mind

What surprised me back when the Lib Dems got into the coalition with the Tories (discovering that austerity was really a great idea) was that there wasn't a wave of defections of their MPs. Likewise, Labour is now the right wing authoritarian bigot party and their MPs are essentially fine with it.

It's remarkable how straightforward and solvable most societal problems seem as long as you don't know shit about them

Red sandstone townhouses on Dowanhill Street in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by David Barclay, they were built around 1990. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #dowanhill #townhouse

When Tommy Robinson celebrates Labour policy, the party deserves to die

To be absolutely clear, this government is evil, and if you are still knocking doors for this party this is basically the last moment for you to stop if you don't want to be seen as evil on a personal basis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scotland simply doesn't need to develop Rosebank. 💨 In 2022, renewables generated 113% of Scotland’s energy consumption. 👷 Over 28,000 green jobs were advertised last year. 📤 We export 93% more energy than we import.

This is the "serious and systemic" bias that Davie ought to have resigned over, in June: bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

‘After environmental regulations were finally enforced and leaded gas phased out, crime in general plunged and the so-called “golden age of serial killers” came to an abrupt end.’ James Lasdun on Caroline Fraser’s exploration of the links between pollution and murder. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This with bells on.

It’s not that it’s difficult to work out who is to blame for Britain’s rocket propelled decline: it’s right in everyone’s faces and undeniable. It’s just hard to explain who is to blame, if your continued employment depends upon you never saying it out loud.

Saturday's front page: Labour MPs now plotting to oust Starmer – as their anger grows about No 10 and plan to raise income tax

I really struggle to understand what these anti-trans people have ever done for women in Scotland. The fight that matters to me is the one that ensures women aren't immolated or strangled by men in their lives. ✍️ @heraldscotland www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful. They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.

Casual dishonesty about lower violent crime for all and lower taxation for most in Scotland goes uncorrected talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/06/c...

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

The Scottish government provides every family with a newborn with a ‘baby box’ of essentials to help them get started. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY. Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?

in spite of the original headline, i was simply not prepared for this vile drivel

Simon shining a light on Labour Government economic ignorance.

Conservative Councillor says "young black males" are "flooding" the UK Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security" Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"

Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English. Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’. The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

Google is feeding me Russian propaganda (with half assed concealment) in its news feed. There really isn't a single large digital publisher that isn't completely terrible. mediabiasfactcheck.com/military-wat...

Incredibly stupid decision, there is simply no reason to do this and every reason not to.

I don't think we understand just how bad the decline of the Internet is to knowledge. 3 years ago, I could perform a very basic search in any engine and get an absurd number of relevant links, research articles, etc. Today, I can perform the same search and find absolutely nothing.

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

regime propaganda site cannot countenance counter info

You can stick this up your arse sideways. I’d sooner do time

Seconded

I’d sooner gargle prussic acid than watch this exploitative clickbait culture war shit

EXCLUSIVE: Concerns have been raised over Nigel Farage being 'thrust into living rooms' without scrutiny after a study revealed the BBC featured Reform UK in a quarter of News at Ten bulletins in six months

'As the maps make very clear, migration has to happen. Just look at Scotland, for example. The forecast indicated by this map is that its population could at least halve by 2100 without inward migration...' @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

This guy risked his own safety to stand up for refugees. The animal flagshaggers wanted to beat him up for it. Luckily, he could get to the police. These are the thugs that Starmer refuses to condemn. This guy has more courage than the whole Blue Labour cabinet together. #FlagShaggers

Instead of delivering support on the cost of living, Westminster is busy demonising people who seek sanctuary. I will have no part in it. Our Saltire is a flag of welcome - and refugees are welcome here in Scotland.

“In the face of genocide, there can be no business as usual. We will pause new awards of public money to arms companies whose products or services are provided to countries where there is plausible #evidence of #genocide being committed by that country. That will include Israel.” —First Minister 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"I'm ringing the alarm bell for our values, for our common humanity, for our commitment to the oppressed and for those seeking sanctuary" I applaud Scotland's First Minister @johnswinney.bsky.social This is exactly what needed said. A vital antidote to hateful political rhetoric from Westminster

This a million times

“The BBC’s own “verify” feature also hides the fact that it’s not even a record for an equivalent period. “But the 50,000 figure for a 403-day period is not a record. It was higher in September 2023, for example” Well hidden, of course”