they won’t have a new leader in place until after the election now in either case

it's not a coincidence the most anti-LGBT+ government since Thatcher is also the government with the most paedophile scandal since Thatcher

There needs to be an industry inquiry after these elections into MRPs and then, to be frank, there needs to be a strengthening of BPC rules and potentially even actual regulation to control the recent proliferation of lobbyists dressing up as pollsters and undermining the entire sphere

can’t hide behind ‘Mandelson the Trump-whisperer’ forever!
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‘just how central was Peter Mandelson to the Starmer project’ is a question that is becoming increasingly close to being permissible, and I think Starmer is 100% done once it starts being asked

(he does obviously deserve criticism for losing the referendum though)

any Tory PM post-Lisbon was basically obligated to hold a referendum, the only question was if they’d be for or against leaving

perhaps conspiratorial of me but i wonder how much a certain generation of scottish labour person is still keeping in their hearts the million quid she gave the anti independence campaign

You would think that at a time when trans rights were being relentlessly targeted by wealthy elites, a charity named after an actual riot in support of those rights would have the grit to stand firm by its people, writes Steph Paton ✍️

this honestly isn’t that different from the SNP electing John Swinney as First Minister

It's time for change. Legalise cannabis.

It's time to end the failed and deeply damaging ‘war on drugs’.

Scotland needs an evidence-based approach to drugs that prioritises public health and public safety, not more criminalisation.

if this was your first time watching Kemi Badenoch you’d think she was quite good

it was disqualifying at the time, nothing that’s come out since was necessary to make that apparent

the problem with Keir Starmer’s defence is that it’s all coming from someone who thought it was a good idea to appoint Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the US

I appreciate the PLP is stressed about lack of viable alternative but I am begging all 400 of you that if Starmer doesn't resign on the 8th of May you have to coup him. You simply must coup him. I don't have the energy for the constant "here's another aspect of why he is unfit to be PM" news!

that’s only 25p per Kevin McKenna article about how Nicola Sturgeon did too many genders and that’s why whatever bad thing that’s in the news happened

sounds a lot like security vetting didn’t matter very much to Keir Starmer who is about to appear at PMQs acting furious he wasn’t told about the outcome

that’ll be a fun one to justify

Conor Matchett Interesting poll this, suggesting pro-union majority by a whisker and Reform, not Labour, in second Raises questions on how a government will form BUT, major question marks over the data given the mad fieldwork of more than TWO months Not really your classic 'snapshot' The Scottish Sun Mega-poll predicts SNP will fall just short of pro-independence majority Conor Matchett There's lots of this poll I'm not sold on, so treat with caution

Conor Matchett tells us to ‘treat with caution’ on Twitter, does the article he wrote for the Scottish Sun include any caveats at all?

I’ve checked for you, and no it does not.

the thing that actually bugs me more is that all the politics reporters know it’s obvious bollocks, but are reporting on it as if it means something

special legal protections for the kind of freaks who prioritise hearing Julie Bindel ranting about ‘men in frocks’ over studying, partying, relaxing, gaming, watching TV, playing a sport, or sleeping

I feel like you’re lucky if 1% of students go to extra-curricular lectures, the idea that this is some core part of the university experience is laughable

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

A list of Starmer's 10 pledges, made during his Labour leadership campaign. Every pledge has 'broken pledge' written across it.

Forgive us if we don't trust Keir Starmer.

Do you?

Starmer has shit politics but he’s also deeply incompetent on a personal level

what was everyone else doing

was there not a team working on it, did the future Prime Minister not what to get involved in developing it

why would that be literally one person’s job