Hang it in the Louvre

Provocation: If you abandon every principle on your way to top, have you still won?

Bluesky evolving into an eclectic soup of investigative journalists, middle-aged train enthusiasts, lefties, Brazilians and, now, British teenagers. Glorious 🦋

Land and anti-corruption campaigners claimed the register had “failed” and required an overhaul with proper checks and enforcement https://www.theferret.scot/offshore-landowners-scotland-land-control-register/

Glasgow, radicalised by basic decency

They should be in jail

I cannot recommend Tip Toe enough - absolutely harrowing but completely captures the zeitgeist of the dark age ahead of us.

“Public ownership” is smoke and mirrors because they think you’re too stupid to know the difference. It is an exercise in PR and subterfuge, similar to GB Energy. This is not nationalisation.

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

Statistically, the people who have pulled us into oblivion, and continue to do so, are 50+ not 15.

For those who want serious journalism exploring serious issues through the voices of serious people, try my long read today on hunger in our country - the 6th richest in the world - in 2026. There’s 14million people going hungry. Their stories are as heartbreaking as they are enraging. Please share

The press is supposed to be a vital cog in the machinery of democracy. In Britain, it’s more of a protection racket for some of the very nastiest and most absurdly malicious people in our society.

🚄 HS2: the good, the bad and the ugly. A thread. Once pitched as a fast new spine linking London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. What’s left is London-Birmingham, a price tag north of £100bn, and trains that won’t run until the late 2030s. Buckle up. 🧵

French TGV: £24m per km HS2: £457m per km

Surely being devoid of human decency and morality is a prerequisite for this role, no?

New way to view these Data Centers that are draining the communities they implant themselves in... draining resources for slop

1/🧵 The UK government is nationalising the railways. Sounds great, right? Public ownership, no more profiteering. But look a bit closer and you’ll find it’s not quite the full picture. A thread. 🧵

Young people are experiencing the reality of the system they’re living in - and it’s rightly terrifying them.

Hannah needs to wake up. Doesn’t she know the Political Class are busy with Change™ - of course they need a swift IPA or 6 to guffaw and boo their way through a few debates! This is Grown-Up Politics™ - solid foundations for any population!

In these difficult times it’s comforting to know people absolutely hate Wes Streeting.

The death throes of a broken economic system, represented in real time, as different demographics try to sense-make their way out of oblivion. The underlying system is rotten - this is simply an emergent property.

He's already fucked you over babe. 24 hours.

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Christopher Harborne is a new entry on the Sunday Times rich list top ten - worth £18 billion. He bought Reform for 0.1% of his fortune...

The Overton window hasn’t shifted, it’s been teleported into another dimension.

A very bon dia from Catalonia

Pop quiz: you’ve listened to the media’s hysteria on taxing the wealthy. Does their narrative fit this picture? If not, why might that be? www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Glasgow, five years ago today 📍 On May 13 2021, hundreds of people gathered in Kenmure Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow to prevent two of their neighbours being detained by the Home Office in a dawn raid eviction

BuT LaBoUr ArE DoInG sO MuCh GoOd ToO!!!

The most relatable thing Keir Starmer has done lately is refuse to see Wes Streeting

Ed Milliband would be 1000 times better than Wes Streeting as PM. Keeping my fingers crossed for this! Is it too much to ask for a Labour PM who cares about climate change, isn't a raging transphobe nor chummy with Peter Mandelson? No, it isn't. Labour - get it together ffs. With alt text:

It’s cute to hang with people who aren’t sourced from hate everyday 🦋

This is amazing! Exactly the same tactics they used on Mamdani. Keep up the excellent work Mr Polanski - they really are terrified of you and the Greens.

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

“Oh, fuck off!” I shout out repeatedly as I listen to Starmer on the car radio. Incrementalism won’t cut, he explains, before setting out an agenda of limp incrementalism on Europe and everything else. All he has done is make a compelling case for his own departure.

This will definitely impact their polls, just not the way they hope it will.

Nigel Farage: I want to deport all non-white people Zack Polanski: I want poor people to have more money Keir Starmer: Both of these people are the same. I am very smart.

Clive nails it. When Labour said “change” we all read it to mean seismic, systemic change - when in actual fact they meant rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The Lib Dem’s serve a critical purpose in British politics. To provide the illusion of an alternative while offering absolutely nothing of value that would actually help.

An earlier me - privileged, white, wealthy - could not have imagined finding this stuff terrifying or understood why othered people - Black, Jewish, immigrants - did. But I listened, and I watched, and I learned. And they were right. I'm begging you to listen and watch and learn.

The Lib Dem’s are the mirage of liberalism - they help Sensible Moderate voters sleep at night feeing like the made the “right choice” while achieving absolutely nothing except more of the same.

✅ hubris ✅ arrogance ✅ dellusion ✅ stupidity

The key challenge is - when you exist primarily to maintain the status quo, it’s virtually impossible to do anything of meaning.

“Be free from Andrew Neil” should be a central Scottish Indy campaign promise.

This is the way

The brutal truth here is that they don’t give a shit: they will work out the details when we get there, exactly the same as it was with Brexit and just about every other major avoidable calamity of my lifetime.

Moving to Scotland was comfortably the best thing I ever did to avoid the constant moral injury of living in a country full of self-entitled, wilfully ignorant, arrogant, spiteful, racist bigots - and their Sensible Centrist enablers.