Disappointed they aren't throwing "Smiley's People" in for a trio.

Labour seems to have internalised the Supreme Court judgment as though it was a damning referendum loss that saw the public reject its position, rather than a plainly incorrect reading of a single point of law

alright Kevin we're all having fun here but you can probably calm down to a frenzy now

I’m not being funny about this.If you think trans people deserve dignity but that they shouldn’t have to be accepted as trans in schools or bathrooms or workplaces or interpersonal conversations or on the Holyrood website, even if they have a GRC-what is “being trans” to you? What are you affirming?

performing at a genuinely unbelievable level

BBC couldn't get copyright permission to play the Horst Wessel Song.

oh god I've completely lost it at this

I feel for Peter Murrell, it's hard being a sitcom character who has to live in the real world. More people should be aware of the plight of sitcom characters.

the image of Sturgeon cautioning against panic buying while, just off-screen, Murrell is frantically trying to wedge 100 toilet rolls, eighty tins of baked beans and two twenty-litre cans of petrol into a cupboard

best thing I've read yet on the broader context of the Murrell case and what it means for Nicola Sturgeon

this took me a minute and was very much the better for it

The U.S. has officially killed more than 200 people in Latin American waters since Sept. 2, with next to no evidence presented to the public to justify the strikes.

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar

This is more American than a bald eagle clutching an ar15 and a flag

women are my favourite guy

thank fuck Findlay Curtis is going to be the best player in the world

This explicitly white supremacist lie would, 10 years ago, have been confined to the pages of Stormfront. Reform is a foundationally racist party.

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

CONFIRMED: The Wonka Scotland Oompa Loompa girl has formerly withdrawn from President Trump's America 250 concert.

in fairness it sounds like the Nazis in his erotic time travel thriller with self insert protagonist are the antagonists, which I wouldn't necessarily have put the farm on

this man proves the UK isn't free - pursued by a ruthless legal system for views the government doesn't like

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

'we have nominated the worst person in the constituency' latest

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

wonder how many shoplifting thinkpieces take into account that stealing all of the drinks from your local Greggs is one of the last pleasurable things that anyone can do for free

At this point these jokes are starting to seem like they're in poor taste. Such poor taste in fact that Peter Murrell wants to buy them for three grand a pop.

'and taking top spot, congratulations to a Mr Murrell, from Glasgow'

'firstly: seriously, what on earth was going on with the campervan'

'what about the Labour Party' snarls your boyfriend derisively

I understand why political campaigns have to say it but I just reject the premise I have more in common with these people than divides us. We need to confront the fact that 10-30% of the population wants to end democracy, establish a fascist regime and ethnically cleanse the country

smart move of him to negotiate a new deal at the 'Steve Clarke's Scotland have qualified for a major tournament' part of the cycle, brave decision from the SFA not to wait for the 'Steve Clarke's Scotland have stunk out a major tournament' part of the cycle

oh my god don't say things like that if you don't mean them

remember that time Zelensky didn’t wear a tie

not going to read it but can someone tell me if Tony Blair has at last thrown his weight behind the idea of building a bridge from Gourock to Dunoon

I think the aggregate negative effect of social media is if anything far greater than that of smoking

"we're going in a new direction"

In their letter on this issue, Sex Matters calls trans women in women’s spaces “deviants”. Yesterday, Sonia Sodha called them “fetishists”. This is a troubling escalation in rhetoric from a group that clearly feels emboldened.

the rewards of a fully air-conditioned office / the mortifying ordeal of commuting through London to get there

claiming, out of nowhere, that a damaging story about you was the result of a Russian hack and refusing to provide any evidence: only marginally more credible than claiming it was the work of aliens and refusing to provide further evidence

just when you thought kim jong un had the monopoly on outré methods of execution

This response to the story Creasy shared is despicable. Sonia Sodha should hang her head in shame.

would have to say that, as a Scottish man living in London, I'm facing some challenges today, yes

a lot of people really do say ‘twink’ because they’re not allowed to say ‘faggot’ any more

no reason to suspect that anyone here has acted improperly (except, you know, obviously Murrell) but 'at a hearing scheduled two weeks *after* the general election, Murrell pleads guilty thus ensuring there isn't a lengthy and high-profile trial' is certainly a fairly good outcome for the SNP

if you tried to make me watch this at gunpoint I would fight you for the gun

I've said it before but we need to somehow restore the social cost of racism. It's always been there but it's spreading at least partly because people aren't made to feel ashamed of it any more.

The Observer @liamthorp.bsky.social

Everything about Restore polling right now is basically a media studies experiment in “how far can you get with almost no mainstream backing, one cooked online network and dark social”. Quite far! (Wait to see if the Paul Marshall network goes in on him.)