This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it. It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

Farage and Trump pretend to be tough on crime. Yet they promote crypto -organised crime’s currency of choice Talk from me on how Farage’s full hypocrisy has yet to be exposed

Former MI6 officer Christopher Steele told a conference on Russian interference on Tuesday that the UK's 2024 GE cost roughly £94.5m in total, compared with around $2bn in the US A single Wisconsin Supreme Court judge election drew about $100m It makes UK elections comparatively cheap to influence

Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely

The rules about giving equal and fair coverage to candidates are clear. Complicating factor here isn’t one of them has a bin face, but the other one is frightened to talk to the media and will only offer footage of himself his staff provide. The media need to make it clear this is unacceptable.

Interview today with @channel4news.bsky.social. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPeP...

I’m sure this is well-meant, but if I had just called a by-election after facing allegations of financial impropriety, I’m not absolutely sure the first thing I’d do would be… offering the returning officer thousands of pounds in cash.

"Farage’s own words claiming politics was a poverty pursuit – unless you’re on the take – are now coming back to bite him." ✍️ @josiahmortimer.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/06/n...

Vatersay cows

I’m strongly of the opinion that a Martin Bell-style, non-partisan anti-corruption candidate should stand in Clapton against Farage in the next GE. Platform of regular surgeries, proper representation of the constituency in parliament, hard work and no second jobs.

Sometimes pollsters discover very important things.

Bring down the Establishment!

Also: the unspeakable hypocrisy of these people saying refugees should 'pay their way'. We have spent years, decades actually, begging the Home Office to let asylum seekers work so their could have some meaning and material advantage in their life, to no avail.

Lou Haigh was fired as the result of a petty power play by Number 10 – who are *widely* believed to have leaked the story then used as the pretence for the firing. There's a real chance if they hadn't done that, Andy Burnham wouldn't be back in parliament now. Butterflies and hurricanes!

The EHRC trans code explained: What it does, how it works and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/the-ehrc-t...

This is the World Cup content I'm here for.

Scotland has arrived in Boston. It's just our way of being friendly.

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch admits she’ll make Farage PM if Reform come close. In an interview with The Spectator: “This country cannot have another left-wing government.” A fascist one is okay though.

Reform UK have promoted hate and racism, not just online, but on our streets and in our parliament. Scotland must stand together against their hate.

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

Voters in Makerfield might care to remember that after a woman called for immigrants to be burned alive in their homes two years ago, Nigel Farage gave her a platform at his party conference.

The UK government claims they need to stay on X because thats where people get information, but when that platform encourages violence and the creation of non-consensual pornography, their presence crosses the line into complicity.

Nadhim Zahawi describes Nowak as someone "who lost his life because of incompetence". Greg Dyke points out that nobody is saying the mistake by police caused the death. Phillips intervenes with "nobody knows". A lack of basic research on a very sensitive topic. Paragraph 16 of sentencing remarks:

Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian has drawn a documented, scholarly line between President Trump's political rhetoric and the language of the 20th century's most destructive regimes. Trump's use of phrases like "enemies within," "enemies of the people," calling migrants...

If you think this is horrific (it is), then wait until you hear that official figures (2026) show that Black children are: 1. EIGHT times more likely to be STRIP-SEARCHED than white children 2. FIVE times more likely to have FORCE used against them than white children 'Anti-white' policing is it?

So the police force accused by Nigel Farage of "anti-white racism" is over five times more likely to target black people for stop and searches than white people The figure is higher than the average for England and has got worse over recent years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Wholly correct. What I'd add is: don't despair, most people, when you say 'his brother had made the 999 call' go 'oh, right, I understand now'.

This👇. We need more of this.

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

The UK government should do something about malevolent foreign interference in British democracy. Urgently.

I’ve lost track of all the mad and bad things that Reform’s Makerfield candidate has said. From misogyny to absurd conspiracy theories and pro-Russia propaganda. What’s amazing is this is their top candidate. The guy they have chosen to fight the biggest by-election in living memory. This guy.

The past few days have felt heavy (and not just because of the heat). The EHRC code will devastate so many of our lives and inaction by parliament is a political choice. I have put my thoughts into this Opinion piece for The Guardian here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another Farage ally spewing Russian propaganda 👇

Compare and contrast two former Labour Prime Ministers. Gordon Brown spends his time and energy addressing issues of injustice and poverty. Lives a modest personal life with little concern for accumulating wealth or status. Tony Blair, er, doesn't.

The right electoral reform would reassure the bond markets and pave the way for a return to the EU, something that would make them positively jubilant (if it's possible for a bond market to be jubilant) open.substack.com/pub/ewanhoyl...

@tombaldwin66.bsky.social You're right that a group like "Prosper" could prosper as a party after the right kind of electoral reform.

Why we need to be more European - in attitude and our voting systems - if we want to be part of the European Union again. Electoral reform and reversing Brexit: they’re more connected than you might think | Tom Baldwin www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

since a lot of people seem to be questioning my motivations- I will add that I drew this for my trans family and friends- and that you can read more here: www.instagram.com/p/DYpvdnKDNV...

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

Sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories is really bad and grounds for withdrawal as a candidate. But being mates with the leader of the British Union of Fascists is also really bad and I can’t help noticing a) what we’ve heard more about and b) who’s still running.

For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

So the EHRC guidance has been updated from "Fuck trans people's rights" to "I'm terribly sorry but fuck trans people's rights", and it remains glaringly obvious that the government's response to the Supreme Court judgement should have been to fix the law rather than cower in fear of bigots.

Please take care of yourselves and each other. LGBT+ Helpline Scotland (0800 464 7000 [email protected]) is open until 9pm tonight (Thursday). The UK national LGBTQIA+ support line (0800 011 9100 switchboard.lgbt) is open until 10pm every day. You matter, you are needed, you are loved.

I am again thinking of the Labour/LD Scottish Government of 2000, the vicious public attacks on Wendy Alexander and Sam Galbraith as they led the effort to repeal Section 28, the overwhelming public opposition to repeal, and the fact that they did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.

and today we thank the internet gods for this wonderful gift

PS. Couldn't agree more that we need to stop people complaining about the 'unfairness' of a system that locks RefUK out of the loop, since they exist to dismantle democracy and replace it with autocracy. Anything that disenfranchises them is both vital and necessary. Bottom line: Fuck 'em.