Graeme Purves

More of this, please

The corporate media don't want you to know this, but offer people genuine social and ecological justice combined with ambition, and most of us will rally behind it.

We're seeing examples of this all over the world, and it's what hope looks like.

Updated Scotland poll tracker.

SNP 5 short of a majority.

Pro-independence majority of 15.

Seats (+/- 2021)

SNP: 60 (-4)
Ref: 21 (+21)
Lab: 18 (-4)
Grn: 12 (+4)
Con: 10 (-21)
LD: 8 (+4)
Alba: 0 (-)

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As the Israel-US conducts a ruthless, criminal war of aggression against the people of Iran, Peter Arnott attempts to clear the debris and see through the fog of war. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/03/03/w...

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu

Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

Mmmm... I never thought that. 🤔

Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...

Blimey. Sky News reporting YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention

*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*

RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),

Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second

Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.

Even further and faster than I expected. news.sky.com/story/greens...

Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly.

Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it

Rep. Ted Lieu, "There are allegations in the Epstein files of Donald Trump raping children"

It's where his gills used to be...

This is vascular disease. The advancing dementia goes with it.

So explain why you lost so heavily to Plaid Cymru in Caerffili sweet cheeks.....

Corruption at the Standards Commission for Scotland, Fiona Higgins and the Sid Perrie case - parkswatchscotland I had set aside last Wednesday morning to attend the Standards Commission for Scotland (SCS) hearing into Councillor Fiona Higgins, who like Sid Perrie (see here) the local elected National Park board...

Scotland's Standards Commission backs off in the face of the prospect of legal challenge in the case of Councillor Fiona Higgins | Nick Kempe for 'Parkswatch Scotland':
#ScottishGovernance #DemocraticScrutiny

parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/03/01/c...

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Sometimes the simplest questions are the most effective.

The next person to interview Badenoch should ask her if she believes international law matters.

He clearly doesn't want to be Prime Minister anymore. Should have just resigned over the Mandelson appointment and saved everyone some trouble.

Can you explain the curious use of the word 'defensive' in this context, Pippa, given that it was the United States and Israel that attacked Iran? 🧐

I met my favourite goose today and it didn't fly away .. Anser indicus, aka Bar-headed goose.. mid Hampshire, England

Scottish Government ‘gave no thought to independence’ when creating new bonds scheme

NEW: The Scottish Government gave 'no consideration' to Scotland becoming an independent country when it set up a 10-year bond programme, a fresh report has said

Ye don't say? 🤔

YouTube video by chartrand Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

🎵Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?🎵

- Pink Floyd, from their album 'Wish You Were Here' (1975)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdN...

So, about those Epstein files…?

#Trump, We hate you for FREE!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

#TrumpEpsteinFiles

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

"Whereas so-called 'red wall' residents who have moved to the right have been lionised by Labour insiders as 'hero voters' to be chased and never criticised, Labour-Green switchers must apparently be scolded for being seduced by indulgent and reckless gesture politics."

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Would you be surprised to hear that none of the leading American political reporters are talking about this? They are acting like this never happened. Because it reveals the state of mind of our Commander in Chief. And that’s a taboo subject in America.