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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.

I was one of my local Scouts first intake of girls. It was the 90’s. I can’t believe (well, actually I can) how far backwards anti-trans obsessives want to take us.

Do you remember the BBC reporting "no difference in outcomes" just before the Inquiry came up to Edinburgh? This table below was what was presented at the Welsh visit just a few weeks later. It wasn't reported in scotland.

🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

Only a handful of people benefit from our current system. It is time to wake up and tear it down.

The "appropriate response" is to broadcast everything that Trump did and said on that appalling day for American democracy and then to tell this moron to sling his hook.

It's amazing how many people don't 'get' this. It's why I'm looking forward to living in a kinder, fairer, Independent Scotland.

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

Rather than debate whether Prince Andrew loses his title, I’d prefer him taken to a police station, interviewed under caution and - if the investigating officers believe they have sufficient evidence - charged and prosecuted. If a jury later finds him guilty like any citizen he should then be jailed

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

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INCREDIBLE clip. <Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub> Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub." Richard Holden: "That's not fair." <continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

These images are separated by one day

Kevin McKenna is on the glue 😵‍💫 I’d say that “there’s a feeling” amongst the vast majority of Scots, that the Orange Order are bigoted, sectarian, knuckle-dragging orcs 🍊 🦍 🇬🇧

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

‘Motherhood penalty’ costs women an average £65,618 in pay by time first child turns five. This is followed by gender pay gap, pension gap, health gap; slow career progression, harassment and violence, unpaid carer work, retirement insecurity. All women deserve justice.

Do listen to the whole clip Firstly the interviewer did immediately challenge & rebut Badenough’s misrepresentation & ignorance It really is shockingly bad from Badenough Not only did she fail to apologise…just powered on..”a lot of people in NI did vote to remain”…rude, patronising, arrogant

This ruling is a joke. PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny. Michelle Mone should have to pay the £122m personally. RT if you want to see her pay it all back.

“We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.” - Secretary of War Pete “Whiskey” Hegseth declares war on beards. 😬

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

Today, energy bills increase again across the UK. Labour said they’d fix this - but on their watch, our energy bills are going up. With independence, we can use our energy wealth to benefit people and bring bills down. That’s the fresh start Scotland needs. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

He's proud of our flag? But not proud enough to honour the democratic choice of the people of Scotland. Instead, he talks about Sarwar, a guy who lost in the Holyrood election & had to rely on a list seat & doesn't even represent a constituency. What an idiot 🤦‍♀️

Yes!! FINALLY a politician debunking the household budget analogy AND making the obvious but never talked about point that investment in the NHS pays itself back many times over due to a healthier working population. More of this please @zackpolanski.bsky.social it's SUCH a breath of fresh air.

Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle. Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association

In the light of The Guardian’s last report on sewage in English and Welsh rivers. “The Commission has also learnt from Scotland’s ethical based regulation model the benefit of close supervisory engagement with the company to understand more deeply its challenges and capabilities and build trust.”

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

2. The craven appeasement of powerful lobby groups, which, in the absence of a moral compass, have been able to steer this government any way they want. 2/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have struggled to explain the Starmer government. But I think the explanation comes down to two simple forces: 1. A visceral, obsessive hatred of the Labour left. Any progressive policy, however necessary and popular, looks to the inner circle like a dangerous concession to the left. 🧵1/2

"The London press fawns on Farage. He could loudly break wind at a funeral and they’d run a think-piece on how elegantly he flatulates." Neil Mackay, The Herald, Glasgow. 6th September.

IF the UK media did its job, and held Farage to account to even half the level they hold LD, Labour, SNP politicians, Reform would be over. IF.

They came for Graham Linehan and I said, can you take Nigel Farage too?

We’ve been banned from Reform Party events for two years now. Why does Nigel Farage lie to Congress about this? @bylinetimes.bsky.social @josiah.writes.news

RM Jamie Raskin explains that Republicans’ fixation on Europe’s online safety laws is all a distraction. When Trump is banning books and detaining students for exercising their First Amendment Rights, the Republicans need to start looking closer to home.

It was his PARTY that won the list seat - he was NOT on the ballot paper. The regional list ballot paper only gives the option of a political party - not a named individual. The Tories (as much as I despise them) should have the right to replace him with whoever they choose.

“Tabloids tell us Connolly is lovely, ordinary, caring, a great Mum. But she wasn’t punished for any of that. She was punished for telling a mob it's okay to set fire to hotels full of people she sees as lesser. That she did it between a cuppa and walking the dog, makes it more chilling, not less.”

If you don't love Nigel Farage give this a Like. If you hate him, give it a RT.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

Neo-Nazis now brazenly stalk our streets. They have been emboldened by the behaviour of malignant politicians who have relentlessly demonised refugees and migrants My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

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