JohnNicolson

Do you send Christmas cards? I do. I like keeping the tradition alive. This year I’m sending these wee 1960s originals I found still in their original packaging on eBay. My Dad loved sending tiny cards with robins to my Mum so these make me think of them both.

They may see themselves as feminists. But they certainly don’t speak for most women.

Flashback to wee kitten Karl for #Caturday

“The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard : I don’t know if you’ve ever spent 40 seconds looking at Liz Truss wordlessly blinking and gulping, but it’s a genuinely disturbing sight. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”

There seem to be no sewer into which transphobes will not dive. They hate prominent progressive barrister Jolyon Maugham & his Good Law Project. Here’s one of them speculating that he might have “secretly enjoyed” being raped as a child.

Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy

“Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise: “teenage Farage would sidle up and say “Hitler was right” & “gas them”sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas chambers. Eight contemporaries have corroborated the claim.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Decorations collected from around the world - this year’s Christmas tree theme is travel memories!

Yet more evidence that #Reform voters don’t care about the #Farage anti Semitism revelations.

Grim reading for Labour.

Polling: @FindoutnowUK
Graphics: @LeftieStats

“I am proud to have scrapped the two-child limit,” #Starmer intoned yesterday “and lifted half a million children out of poverty.” Fascinating to hear he’s extremely proud of doing something he last year suspended seven of his MPs for voting for.”

Immigration is good for us. So why is it so hard for politicians to say so. Here’s my take.

YouTube video by John Nicolson I Despise the Immigration Lies on UK News — Here’s the Reality

Immigration is a good thing. Why don’t journalists ever challenge the cowardly politicians who pretend otherwise? Why do they follow the racist narrative promoted by Reform & right wing tabloids? Here’s my take. Please watch & tell me whether you agree. youtu.be/6RaCQJ278qU

To Scots & our friends around the world a very happy #StAndrewsDay

A sad day. I’m heading to the funeral of my friend & former agent Dave Lewis. A kind and gentle man Dave had a sharp political mind & was a passionate advocate for progressive political causes. He’ll be much missed. Thinking today of his family especially his beloved wife Helen.

Ex-East Dunbartonshire Council leader Andrew Polson jailed for romance fraud and stealing money from Christian radio station Andrew Polson, 53, preyed on the 72-year-old woman by persuading her to transfer money under the false pretence she was investing in two homes and a letting firm.

My Tory opponent from the 2015 General Election: “the fraudster embezzled £9,018 from now dissolved Revival FM. Polson, the Christian radio station's financial director used the charity's direct debit card to pay for a casino outing. news.sky.com/story/ex-eas...

We now know - from the #CovidInquiry - that 23000 people in England died because Boris Johnson wouldn’t focus & agree to a lockdown in time. Where we needed a serious & focussed Prime Minister we had instead a lazy, lying clown. People lost their lives as a result.

Novels are in alphabetical order A to Z. Separate sections for autobiography, poetry, US politics etc

Many things I don’t miss about being an MP. But I do miss my constituents and constituency event visits - especially seeing all the brilliant creativity from the weans in the run up to Christmas.

Internal Tory polling reveals the party is headed for just 14 seats if the election was held tomorrow. Pushing Brexit through. Electing Johnson. Then Truss. Inventing an immigration crisis. Tories have created the petri dish for the Faragist virus to grow & kill off their party.

It’s Scottish Book Trust’s annual ‘Books Week Scotland’. What have you been reading? Here’s my cosy book reading spot at home! The chair (Eames La Chaise) is a lot more comfy than it looks.

On the shelves you’ll see a collection of my Uncle Bobby’s novels (1960s Glasgow author Robert Nicolson.)

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗣. On Scotland's side 👏

Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures

It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

As temperatures plunge how’s this Starmer Labour pledge working for you?

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.

A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

Labour drops back yet further as Greens surge in England. Reform still well out in front.

Graphics: @LeftieStats
Polling: @Ipsos_in_the_UK

Big birthday celebrations for the Glasgow University Union last night. We presented the wee silver trophy in the foreground to commemorate our 1983 World Student Debating Championship win at @Princeton Frank McKirgan & I persuaded the US audience to ‘regret’ their Declaration of Independence….

We keep hearing about Starmer’s multiple broken promises. For me perhaps the most unforgivable was over #Gaza Israeli war crimes & his abandoned leadership campaign human rights pledges.

I love a bit of restoration. Here’s our new cludgie. Victorian pan from @GWauction with E bay seat purchase, restored and wood grained. Before and after. Took a lot of work…. Cistern box is new.

NEW: Unemployment in Scotland fell slightly in the last quarter while the UK rate has risen to its highest level in more than four years, according to the latest figures

Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Starmer’s allies fear a leadership challenge: his “chaotic strategy pushes Labour MPs toward regime change..driven to the brink by the party’s woeful standing. But as one Labour MP said: (No 10) could try not being paranoid and just try being better.”

Trouble in Labour Paradise… “Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over a leadership challenge…No 10 ‘sources’ increasingly worried that Wes Streeting could be planning an imminent coup against the prime minister.”