How a far-right agitator sparked an anti-immigrant protest at a Dumfries hotel A FAR-right agitator known to be an associate of Tommy Robinson sparked an anti-immigration protest outside a hotel in Dumfries.

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New Scottish Parliament poll, Ipsos 27 Nov - 3 Dec (vs 12-18 Jun):

List:
SNP ~ 28% (+2)
Lab ~ 18% (-4)
RUK ~ 17% (+1)
Grn ~ 17% (+2)
Con ~ 12% (+2)
LD ~ 7% (-1)

Constituency:
SNP ~ 35% (+1)
RUK ~ 18% (+4)
Lab ~ 16% (-7)
Con ~ 11% (+1)
Grn ~ 9% (nc)
LD ~ 9% (nc)

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.

She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

She won her case like you won the general election.

My thread earlier focused on the discussion re. FWS - but I just want to draw this out really explicitly:

The press absolutely monstered Dr Beth Upton in the most appalling way – only for the Tribunal to find that Beth had done nothing wrong, but that Sandie Peggie had harassed her.

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Starmer ‘not available for Budget meeting’, says Swinney - Evening Standard via inkl

The Right
🔹Lisa Nandy: appoints her donor as Ind Football Regulator
- Starmer: "no prob, the error was unknowing"
🔹Rachel Reeves: rents out property without required licence
- Starmer: "no prob, honest mistake"

The Left
🔹Steps on cracks in pavement
- Starmer: "you're sacked!"

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
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BREAKING ---- EVICTED AND STRIPPED OF HIS TITLE.

It's finally over for Andrew.

King Charles III says Prince Andrew will now be known as "Andrew Mountbatten Windsor."

Britain's Prince Andrew will be stripped of his "prince" title and move out of his mansion over the Epstein scandal, Buckingham Palace says. https://cnn.it/4nGXcpy

Chancellor Rachel Reeves admits breaking housing rules by renting out home Rachel Reeves refers herself to the PM's ethics adviser after "inadvertently" renting out her family home without a licence.

YET another dodgy landlord MP, and this time it's the chancellor of the bloody exchequer. Yet another reason why MPs should be banned from being landlords.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC, Sky, all UK media - you NEED to do better.

This isn’t “balance”.

Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!

Stop it!

9/9

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

🧵
1/9

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with"

JR then demolishes Farage, ending with

"You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag — The Guardian Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

The UK Government is creating a fascist state. Terrorism has been redefined to mean whatever Starmer wants it to mean.

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Unite has overwhelming voted to re-examine its relationship with Labour and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has had her Unite membership suspended over her role in the Birmingham bin strike.
www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...

🚨 We’re shocked and disappointed.

The UK government has pushed through HUGE cuts to Universal Credit for disabled people applying in the future.

These cuts will be devastating. They risk pushing even more disabled people to food banks.

AOC: This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt. It militarizes our entire economy. It strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? To give Elon Musk a tax break.. We cannot stand for it. And we will not support it. You should be ashamed

In order to ensure the proscribing of Palestine Action today the UK Govt are lumping them in with a murder cult and a Russian group. Only 1 vote will be held. Starmer sees vandalism as the same as murder. Israel are getting a good return for all the donations made in Westminster.

If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.

This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today

Land Of Hope & Dreams by Bruce Springsteen on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 6 Songs

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At a glance: What has been agreed in EU-UK deal? The UK and the EU have reached a wide-ranging agreement on issues including defence, food and passport checks.

If you read the Irish media it appears the so-called EU/UK deal is just agreements as to the areas that talks are planned to change the current arrangements. No wonder Starmer banned a lot of media from his presser. www.rte.ie/news/uk/2025...

Dunno who did it....but it's class. 😉😁

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Spotted in Canada…

NHS performance comparisons across the UK: FOI release Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Still the best NHS in the UK. #scotland #lbc #bbcnews #itvnews #channel4news
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Everything you need to know about Apple's changes to encryption in the UK — 9to5Mac Apple today announced that it has removed its Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK. The decision comes after the UK government ordered Apple to build a worldwide backdoor into iCloud encryption....

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This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9