Asked if MPs should get a vote on UK military action, Badenoch says that given the number of left wing MPs with "silly views" she thinks it's best if not. 14:08 • 2 Mar 2026

Kemi here saying the quiet part out loud: the business of parliament is ensuring that the great looting and death machine rampages on, unimpeded by the views of silly people who don’t matter and must be ignored.

Blog | Scotland’s Cultural Future: Reflections on our culture hustings for the next parliament Reflecting on our recent hustings event, Scotland's Cultural Future

Thanks so much for highlighting the stark gender inequity across politics and culture in Scotland - we've just blogged our reflections on this: bit.ly/4l4mE8p

Arts organisations at landmark Merchant City venue told to leave by March 27 Ten independent arts organisations at Trongate 103 in Glasgow’s Merchant City have been told to vacate within four weeks after leases were…

EXC: Arts groups based in a landmark Glasgow cultural centre have been told to get out by the end of the March after City Property terminated their leases. Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Glasgow Print Studio and Project Ability are among those affected. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2589875...

7 headshots on purple background with Scottish Parliament building inlay. Headshots: Angus Robertson, Scottish National Party (white man with silvery-blonde short hair and facial hair); Euan Davidson, Scottish Liberal Democrats (white man with short dark hair and glasses by the sea); Malcolm Offord, Reform UK Scotland (white man with glasses and slicked white hair, in a blue suit); Murdo Fraser, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (white man with short dark hair with a backdrop of hills); Neil Bibby, Scottish Labour (white man with short dark hair with a city backdrop); Q Manivannan, Scottish Green Party (Tamil person with long dark hair and a purple collarless shirt); in centre, Halla Mohiedeen, Chair (Lebanese-Scottish woman with medium-length dark hair pictured in a television studio).

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"We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies or open and prosperous ones. Growth or retreat: Those are the two options before us. And by growth, I’m not talking only about material gain, but also our spiritual development." Pedro Sánchez, Spanish PM

I lived very close to Kincora (after it closed) growing up, walked past it most days, and have been thinking a lot over the past few days about the men who tried to speak up about the abuse running out of there.

The UK Gov and Establishment has been suppressing victims over and over again.

Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her.

This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

My granny used to play this on piano and sing it to me when I was wee 🥰

A photo of fireworks over Edinburgh Castle. The lights coming out of the castle are rainbow coloured.

Happy New Year, especially whoever did the gay lighting at Edinburgh Hogmanay ✨️🌈

A hand holding the book 'Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism' by Robert Chapman.

Finished up my 2025 by reading Empire of Normality by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social

I've been tentatively pulling together ideas of what antieugenicism looks like as an active ideological practice (like antifascism, antiracism, anticapitalism), and this book sparked so so many thoughts and notes.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Sinn Féin has lost contact with senator Chris Andrews, who was aboard the Spectre as part of the Sumud Flotilla aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, some of vessels of which have seemingly been boarded by Israel tonight.

@virginmedianews.bsky.social

It’s easy to scoff at this, but Oxford generating artificial intelligence is how the British Empire was run

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Did you know that in the 70s, the British Army created Satanic Panic stories in Northern Ireland. They used blood from the mess hall, set up altars etc and then contacted the media

"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.

Or the SNP, or Plaid, or any of the NI Parties, or...

I think this is all true, but I also think about the number of people who have assumed my PhD (in history) took a long time because it takes that long to memorize all those facts. They eschew skill building, of course, but also confuse knowledge accumulation/regurgitation with knowledge production.

It’s so f*****g tedious and soul-destroying as it’s so unjust' Rebecca Don Kennedy runs the Equality Network. She talks candidly to our Writer at Large about the attacks, abuse and hate she’s suffered…

‘I’m a lesbian and feminist. I’ve been harmed by men. So I wouldn’t fight for trans people if it hurt women’s rights. Yet I’m called a groomer and a misogynist’

Rebecca Don Kennedy, head of the Equality Network, on how dark it’s got for trans people in Britain www.heraldscotland.com/news/2541309...

Warning from historians over government's treatment of trans people Over 350 historians and academics have urged the government to turn back on its growing attacks on trans rights in the UK.

Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there.

Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...

Vasectomies Are Becoming Popular in a Post-Roe World Recent studies show that the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the national right to abortion led to a sharp increase in people—particularly younger, single individuals—seeking a vasectomy or a tub...

There's been an increase, especially in younger men (up 59%) and single men (up 13%)! Tubal sterilisations also increased for younger women but not by as much, and not at all for single women.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/more...

Interestingly, female sterilisation rates have also dropped! There's been an increase in availability of reversible options (such as IUDs), so more people seem to be using them to delay til menopause. But it feels counterintuitive to see birth rates drop at the same time as sterilisations.

Number of vasectomies in England falls 64% in 10 years Procedure goes out of fashion on fears about sex life, but NHS funding is also a factor, says contraception NGO

In the UK vasectomy rates have dropped a lot in the last ~20 years! This is from 2016, and it's continued since then (though a slight uptick post-pandemic, possibly due to delayed surgeries during lockdowns but also increased awareness)

www.theguardian.com/society/2016...

Sorry why is “economics” deemed “career related” in comparison to history?? Both of these topics have direct careers that follow from their study, and both send students into a wide range of future jobs (how many economics graduates become economists, exactly?)

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

Key genetic differences found in people with ME/CFS | News | The University of Edinburgh Scientists have discovered that people diagnosed with ME/CFS have significant differences in their DNA, offering the first robust evidence that genes contribute to a person’s chance of developing the ...

Key genetic differences found in people with #ME/CFS the latest news from The University of Edinburgh on the key findings of the @decodemestudy.bsky.social
The very first large #GWAS study on #pwME www.ed.ac.uk/news/key-gen...

So, just to reiterate: PLEASE REGULATE THE USE OF EXTERNAL CONSULTANCIES, Government.

We all had a good laugh today, but it wasn't worth the millions this will have cost in tuition fee money going to some consultancy that is about to do exactly the same two towns over.

now google each of those six universities and “redundancies”

I strongly recommend Lesley Hall’s website and blog for really thorough rooting out of zombie factoids (especially on the history of sex) www.lesleyahall.net/factoids.htm