I know correlation isn't causation but their vote share does seem to rise every time the New Statesman sneers at them as the 'Reform of the Left.'

A repair voucher scheme would keep money in our pockets and goods out of landfill.

Similar schemes have already proven successful across Europe. It's time to deliver that same success in Scotland.

Let's demand better.

This is just horrific. The gender critical movement along with the British press bullied her out of her job at the NHS and now they doxed her after she fled the country and are continuing the harassment and defamation. These people are absolute monsters.

he sure does

Sorcha Eastwood with a Q for the PM "What was it about the twice disgraced paedophile adjacent self styled prince of darkness that you found so attractive to put into this job?"

Starmer is the frontman for a faction Mandelson was a key part of, he wanted the job, so he got it

Even if she wasn't on a different planet the reason she, and Kate Forbes, were talked up had nothing to do with their actual chances of winning leadership or holding on to Government.

It was entirely because centre-right commentators were happy they agreed with their personal politics. That's it.

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really is stunning how Labour are just on team bad guy now

it should be lost on nobody that - but for the US not giving a damn about burning the British ambassador - Peter would still be glad-handing senators, Morgan would still be shouting at underlings and everyone would still be pretending nothing is fucked, and the plane hasn’t crashed into the mountain

What does it mean, if you can’t lift a stone anywhere near politics, media or the cops without something hideous and hairy scuttering out from underneath it

Michael Crick • @MichaelLCrick X.com In two to three years time, when Starmer and his government are no doubt deeply unpopular, I hope we in the media will ask ourselves: "Why were we so supine during the long 2024 election; why didn't we hold Labour properly to account while we could, and ask more probing questions, and explore their records, rather than give them such an easy ride?"

I think we can see the reason for this is the same as any number of abysmal scandals at all kinds of major British institutions: Nobody wants to go lifting rocks because of the very high risk that moving one of them will send a geyser of scalding hot corruption leaping two hundred feet into the air.

I don’t know how we got here that people can say such damaging, awful and false things and get away with it. That was an NHS dr hounded from her job who had to leave the country. This is the real “hounding” and witch hunt.

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Write to Stonewall.

• Tell them you supported them in the past.

• Tell them why you won’t be supporting transphobia.

Cut direct debts.

Don’t by the merch.

Tell your direct contacts.

97 public libraries in Scotland have permanently closed since 2008.

Libraries are an essential community service, providing far more than just books. We'll ensure councils have the financial backing they need so that no community is left without access to one.

The co-presenter of #GMB, who happens to be married to the foreign secretary:

"This moment in the house of commons where Keir Starmer was saying what he thought was a serious point and was jeered. You can see it in his face, the shock when he realises, they're laughing at me"

Hole spoke to Sultana like she was some naughty school girl. Im no longer enamoured with her, but this was misogynistic power trip idiocy. She was right and his conduct shows he is a fucking bastard

the bullshit rule where you can't call out lies and liars in parliament is bullshit and I hope it is addressed during my life time.

We do not have a functioning democracy when our elected officials are protected by Parliament when they openly lie to us.

Scottish Greens pledge library access for every community in Scotland

The Scottish Greens have vowed to ensure that every community in Scotland has access to a library following the 2026 Holyrood election 👇

30 people made the decision to award the Palantir contract.

@unison.org.uk represent 1.3m people and the BMA all doctors.

It's time the Labour government cleared up Tory mess and remove Palantir from NHS.

In the 70's the Government owned Energy, it built houses, it owned Public Services and it employed people.

Now billionaires own it all, and they pay you too.

So every year prices go up more than wages.

It's not complicated why things are only getting worse.

It's billionaires

A majority would bin him tomorrow if they could agree on a replacement. But they can't so this all drags on...

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

telling the truth in parliament gets you yelled at and kicked out. the truth is not allowed.

that's the lesson here.

Very good, but I wonder what is the earliest moment you could have written this article, and I think it is probably pre-election when they weren't sure if GB Energy was a nationalised producer, state investment vehicle or a matching fund and Starmer just avoided it.

Interesting. When Lee Anderson said the PM was lying, the speaker gave him the chance to withdraw his comments.

Watch Anderson being thrown out.

Wild the difference.

What this whole sorry episode lays bare is that there is a global network of politicians, billionaires, oligarchs and media moguls all exchanging information, inside trading, enriching themselves and insulating each other from attack, prosecution and any repercussions.
World wide.

Average Prime Minister steps on 3 rakes a day factoid is actually just statistical error. Average Prime Minister steps on 0 rakes per day. Rakes Keir, who lives in garden centre and steps on over 10,000 rakes each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

@johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social : "Isn't the reality this, that when he sought to realise his ambition to become leader of the Labour party with very little base in the party, he became dependent on McSweeney and Mandelson and Labour Together to organise, fund his election.."

i got a reply!!

a good apology, imo

have emailed back asking if it will be published in the national/on social media, and about the charity donation

got a reply back immediately saying she’s working with the team on how to resolve it all, and she’s aware there’s a lot of work to be done