Mark McGeoghegan

That's a really strong response from the council! 💪

If this were a Labour council, we all know they'd put out some crap about "legitimate concerns", etc, etc, and some minorty group would then be shat on from a large height.

I'm a bit wound up about it, as someone who's done her time as an Eastern European immigrant kid in a working-class town - the sort of people who key your parents' car with slurs or egg your house are usually the same people responsible for antisocial behaviour towards everyone else anyway!

Frankly I thought Mahmood's line in the Commons, rebuking a Lib Dem critic, about her being the one to have actually suffered racist abuse was absurd - those people will hate you for as long as your govt gives them permission to.

Which, you know, is exactly why Labour's new asylum policies won't work, because they'll worsen integration and won't address the racist element of immigration backlash.

'Misguided and toxic' anti-adult English lesson protest outside primary school A group gathered outside Dalmarnock Primary School in Glasgow on Monday morning.

"Immigrants need to integrate"
"Not like that"

It's never been about integration with these people, it's just old fashioned racism.

DOGE didn't achieve its stated objective, nor its actual objectives.

It has, however, according to The Lancet, set the stage to kill more people by 2030 than the Nazis did in the Holocaust, through USAID cuts alone.

"Bye bye"? We've barely begun to register its impact.

Come on, a finite sun can't support infinite growth, or something

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DOGE didn't achieve its stated objective, nor its actual objectives.

It has, however, according to The Lancet, set the stage to kill more people by 2030 than the Nazis did in the Holocaust, through USAID cuts alone.

"Bye bye"? We've barely begun to register its impact.

Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’ The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.

"There has been some talk recently that we aren’t and shouldn’t be a creedal nation.... I reject this position as passionately as I can."

Gordon Wood responds to JD Vance without mentioning him by name

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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025

The default response to ideas from outwith the inner circles of political leaders has become "no, that will lose votes" even if untrue, or at least unproven.

It's been a theme under successive PMs. May, Johnson (esp. harmful during COVID), Truss, Sunak, Starmer.

The last PM to have an '-ism' was Brown. Cameron did have one, austerity, but that was really Osborne-ism if we're honest.

I mean, I think you're right, but it's become endemic.

I'd say the problem is more Labour leadership's lack of attention to the thinkers in their midsts. Even IPPR, whose 1994 Commission on Social Justice reshaped social policy, struggles to cut through to them despite Carys Roberts now being a Starmer SpAd...

When Millennials get our own nostalgia-bait Netflix series and sci-fi films, a la Stranger Things, I will simply rewatch our noughties Six Nations 'highlights' to remind myself that some things have got better with time.

Scotland 56-0 Tonga: Gregor Townsend's eight-try side predictably sweep aside visitors Scotland 56-0 Tonga: Gregor Townsend's eight-try side predictably sweep aside visitors

Current me: yeah but we lost to NZ and likely couldn't beat England.

Past me: YOU LITERALLY REMEMBER WHEN SCOTLAND COULDN'T SCORE TRIES AGAINST ANYONE

More seriously, Glasman needs to stop being given oxygen by journalists more interested in palace intrigue than serious ideas, because he hasn't got any left.

Coverage of our politics is becoming more and more like Kremlinology every week.

Technocracy: managed

Gender: wokeified

Identities: recognised

Average wages: down >£11k a year in real terms since 2008

Public services: decimated

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my working class is desecrated

Yeah, not a fan of that.

Uefa orders Scotland fans to remove celebration videos from X European football's governing body claimed clips of fans cheering Scotland's World Cup qualification in front of TV screens breached copyright.

With all due respect to VLs, this is the most VL behaviour I've ever witnessed.

Labour faces uphill battle as Scots snub Sarwar ahead of Holyrood vote Few Scots would now consider voting Labour in the upcoming Holyrood elections as Anas Sarwar’s hopes of becoming First Minister continue to fade,…

Labour are in quite the predicament ahead of the Holyrood elections, but they'll find it's all been of their own making, from blowing their own feet off with WFA cuts to an industrial strategy that's botching the 'just transition'.

My latest for @heraldscotland.bsky.social:

Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset

If we're serious about this, there are many, many more UK politicians guilty of taking Russian bribes. Mostly in the Conservative Party.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Aw, sorry - I take my dog's happiness excessively seriously!

"bad boy of Maga"

He's a fucking neo-nazi! What is this framing!?

She never "looks" happy, that's just her face.

I mean her tail is obviously wagging. Get a grip.

Jumper weather 🐾

Aye, Geoff partly inspired my making deindustrialisation the focus of that last 40% of the column as opposed to the many other strategic errors I could've used as examples!

(for those who don't know, Dunfermline is a 15 minute drive from Cowdenbeath)