You should see the More in Common MRP being torn apart in the ScotPol group chats.

Joke of a prediction, really, embarrassing.

It says something about the BBC that in the face of significant cuts and hard priority calls they chose to launch an in-depth undercover investigation into whether refugees are faking being gay.

I think I'm far from alone thinking I'm not interested in funding people with those priorities.

Update on the transphobic advert featuring on The National's front page this week.

This is good - but it shouldn't have taken people reaching out to have this response issued privately.

It should have been a public statement before the cover was unveiled.

Serious question (for anyone who went to university) did any of you actually go to these kinds of invited talks, because I certainly didn’t

So much this

Why are views about immigration different in Scotland? Public opinion isn't formed in a vacuum

I get a little frustrated every time I see the statement that Scotland and England "well actually" don't have different views on immigration.

Because yes they do. It's not as big as many suggest it is, but there's a statistically significant gap.

swingometer.substack.com/p/why-are-vi...

why would that be literally one person’s job

preview of a sticker of a cat in cyan blue colors with blue flowers. the caption reads "generative ai is shit"

✨generative ai is shit✨

get the sticker here: mcapriglione.art

Again and again and again.

It's the "fault" of voters who were alienated by leaders of the centre-left that they didn't get their votes.

It's never the fault of those leaders for alienating them, or never once thinking that they might need to appeal to them to get out their vote.

In the end I can't think of a faster way to alienate the community you're meant to act on behalf of than praising JK Rowling.

But maybe engaging with the community isn't the point.

Maybe it's just earning "legitimacy" points with cishet politicians and business owners.

The framing of this piece as it is could not paint Dugdale in a more negative light.

Anyone active in lgbtq+ rights activism knows that Stonewall hasn't lost cash and support because it is *too* favourable and uncompromising on trans rights, but it's presented here as just a fact.

Yet here in the UK such bans are defended by "sensible" politicians

JK Rowling is fascist. YouTube video by The Serfs

A pretty good one-stop-shop on why no one should watch the new Harry Potter TV show

youtu.be/A_dvAkxvYB0

Back in 2024 I pondered whether it would be falling below 20% polling that would have Labour finally enter crisis mode and start actually changing their plans (for better or worse).

They've been below that mark for six months and might as well be a zombie party at this point. No signs of life.

Paintey @painteyhands · Apr 17 Answers to this question at @theSpurtle hustings tonight. Ben Macpherson- ‘it’s complicated’ Jo Mowatt- ‘you bet’ Reform guy- ‘Yes’ Kate Nevens, wearing an ‘Elect the Dolls’ T shirt- ‘NO!’ Irrelevant LibDem woman- ‘No’ Oliver Thomas for Labour- ‘I’ve been told to say yes 😫’ Question on "no biological male housed in women's prisons, hospital wards, refuges, changing rooms, or sports categories in Scotland, and to amending all Scottish guidance and policies accordingly"

Describes the Scottish political landscape really.

On segregating trans people:

Greens - NO!
LibDems - No
SNP - It's complicated
Labour - Ordered to say yes
Tories - Yes
Reform - Yes

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it’s so good that Joanna Cherry timed her book launch to try and damage the SNP’s election campaign in the couple weeks before the election and it has to fight for headlines with yet another Peter Mandelson scandal

I can't help but find the victimhood apparently natural to a certain type of well-off Londoner very funny.

Not everyone loves London, London isn't everyone's thing, it's the centre of everything and gets the most cash and attention and people don't like it.

You're not persecuted for that!

YIMBYism is one of the most thought-terminating ideologies ever conceived

The number of people saying they've cancelled their memberships over this transphobic ad you have to wonder how long it takes until the amount ISP paid for it becomes a net-negative for the paper.

Losing them respect and money.

And then 4 days later you run anti-trans ads. Absolute shambles.

My first concern that The National was making some bad decisions was hiring Robin Mcalpine, outed as Commonweal head for misogyny, as a columnist.

They've continued making these kind of decisions since and I have no idea what's possessing them. Who is the target audience?

For a couple of years under Laura Webster's editorialship The National moved from a cybernat appeasement machine to a pretty good paper.

This year it has hired no-name cybernats as "polling experts", brought in red-brown collectives as columnists, and now has transphobic ads on its front page.

“I think for a lot of politiciansm… I live rent-free in a lot of people’s heads,” Sturgeon said. “I often think that’s a real shame, because they don’t live in mine.” Cherry rejects the suggestion. “I think that’s an incredibly childish and glib response,” Cherry says, of the “rent-free” barb. “It’s typical of her to play the woman and not the ball.

Mad men "I don't think about you at all"

Oh my god

Absolutely zero change, none, zilch, nada, that civil servants would overrule failed vetting without asking No. 10 and/or a Minister of State first.

Any suggestion otherwise is just lying and should be called that.

By contrast anti-trans hate groups will be welcome to set out their stalls at the Labour, TUC, and STUC conferences

If you consider men going to tate and rogan as equivalent to women going to feminism, you either have zero idea what you are talking about or you are a very bad manipulative propagandist

if Starmer genuinely didn’t know it’s because he didn’t want to

I think it's possible Keir Starmer wasn't told about the failed vetting.

But if he wasn't, it's because Morgan McSweeney gave that instruction not to tell him, and Starmer stood by him until the end.

So, either way, it's still Starmer's fault it happened.