Stiùbhart mac an t-Sealgair

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

1/2

So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime.

Absolute charlatans.

The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.

Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.

Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists Tory and SNP chiefs call for Labour minister Simons to ‘come clean’ as we reveal new details of PR firm’s campaign to discredit journalists

Wow. Josh Simons has resigned as govt minister

Follows weeks of reporting by Democracy for Sale and others about how he paid PR firm to smear journalists investigating Labour Together

Huge thanks to all our supporters. Couldn’t have done it without you
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

UK planes 'are in the sky' in Middle East, Starmer says Sir Keir Starmer says protections for British bases and personnel have been stepped up to their highest level.

By refusing to condemn the illegal attacks on Iran, Trump's British lapdog makes it clear that he supports a world where anything goes, where might is right, and wherein fascists and warmongers can do whatever they want

Sickening, but no surprise

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional.

Polanski and Farage have more in common than you might think Despite huge political differences, the Green and Reform leaders have much in common, writes Laura Kuenssberg.

Facile, desultory, puerile and banal. Or, as the BBC and Laura Kuenssberg would have it: 'In Depth'.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”

On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”

Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

‘Challenging right wing narratives’, you say?

If there was ever an example of the redundant nature of this so-called ‘Union of equals’, it is Scotland's energy sector.

It’s Scotland’s energy. Let’s make it work for Scotland as an independent nation.

Companies in the UK’s Overseas Territories facilitated almost £6 billion worth of trade with Russia despite sanctions

Opaque shell companies in British Overseas Territories used for $8bn trade to bust sanctions against Russia.

BVI, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar are key nodes, as in illicit financial flows.

Banks, accountants, lawyers involved.

UK govts pretend not to know.

West Highland community moving forward with eco-village plans A community trust has bought land for affordable homes and woodland crofts at Loch Duich.

Re-peopling the glens with woodland crofts rather than subsidy fuelled hill sheep or ecocidal grouse shooting.

Eco-village with crofts and affordable homes planned at loch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bodo/Glimt: 'Historical moment' as Norwegian side reach last 16 against all odds Bodo/Glimt knock out last year's finalists Inter Milan in one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history and now the team from the Arctic Circle is dreaming of how far they can go after reachin...

Again, #Bodø/Glimt show #Celtic fans what they could have had: a well-run club with a coherent strategy, punching above their weight in Europe, unshackled by an old, unimaginative, complacent and hopelessly conservative executive. #SackTheBoard
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

We can’t accept demands to tactically vote for Labour when Labour alone have the power to change the voting system and end tactical voting for good -and they still choose not to.

That’s not a tactical choice, it’s extortion!

Hundreds of Londoners can breathe easier tonight after a company controlled by billionaire landlord Asif Aziz halts plan for one of the largest mass evictions in the UK capital’s history.

Yorkshire Water fined £733k after polluting country park stream Yorkshire Water is sentenced for polluting Pools Brook Country Park stream three times in less than a year.

Yorkshire Water fined £733,333 for dumping sewage in a Chesterfield country park stream.

Events go back to 2018-2019. Why 8 year wait?

Company has 125+ criminal convictions.

No exec ever fined/prosecuted.

Fines announced in 2024 were later waived. The same likely again

Just when I thought #Scotland might have a soupçon of a scintilla of a glimmer of a chance against #Ireland in three weeks' time...😅

#6Nations #SixNations #M6N #ENGvIRE

Revealed: Government accused of ‘conflict of interest’ over journalist smear inquiry Starmer said Cabinet Office will investigate Josh Simons and Labour Together - but its ministers have received more than £150,000 from the think tank and its directors

🚨 Cabinet Office investigating Labour Together and Josh Simons over campaign to smear journalists

But...ministers overseeing inquiry have received £150,000+ from Labour think tank

Experts and MPs demand 'full independent investigation'

New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... 🧵

Andor's Tony Gilroy Gives Interview He Couldn't Before While promoting Andor, a Star Wars about Fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word.

Tony Gilroy’s recent interview sheds light on a crucial irony: creating art about fascism while facing censorship. Disney’s request to avoid the term highlights a disturbing trend—corporate interests stifling vital conversations.

Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts' Mathematician Hannah Fry travels to the front lines of AI in her new BBC documentary AI Confidential with Hannah Fry. She talks to Bethan Ackerley about what the technology is doing to us – for better...

Hannah Fry on our accelerating relationship with AI: ‘So far, society has been based on exchanging labour for money. Our tax system is based on taxing income, not wealth. I think those two things are going to have to change.’
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

‘FIFA video’…

🚨 NEW | Counting energy from the perspective of the consumer, rather than the supplier, can help us better understand the dramatic changes sweeping the energy sector today 🔎🌪️⚡️

With this new framework, Ember unpacks 4 key battles for the future of energy 🧵 1/7 👇

Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood.

Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.

This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws.

Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money suppressing civil liberties.

Degrading counter-terror powers is a genuine threat to national security.

Researchers have discovered a little RNA molecule - small enough to potentially form spontaneously, yet sophisticated enough to begin to copy itself - that could explain how life on Earth began over four billion years ago, Science Director @rogerhighfield.bsky.social reports: https://bit.ly/3ZvPS6s

The US fascists’ obsession with Hungary is so strange. It’s as if the Nazis had decided to ignore Japan an Italy and prioritise their relations with Thailand.

This diagram is in Polish, but fairly easy to understand.

The upper section is U.S. assistance for Ukraine during the Biden and Trump admin

The lower is russian drone and missile attacks during the same time frame

Tell me more about how Trump's negotiations are working.

How can someone be removed from the House of Lords? When peers make headlines for the wrong reasons, the same question inevitably arises: how do you actually remove someone from the House of Lords? The recent cases of Lord Mandelson and B

When a peer makes headlines for the wrong reasons, there's virtually nothing the public can do about it. This is a democratic scandal. buff.ly/GNXnFru

MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed.

Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵

‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'

Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"