Tam Britton

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

Hannah Arendt

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.

A pissed off thread using data.

Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...

🔴 REVEALED 🔴

The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.”

Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…

Outstanding result.

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

A Danish intelligence agency has for the first time described the US as a potential security risk, signaling a shift in the Nordic country’s view of its close ally after months of friction over Greenland bloom.bg/44Q1Bj6

📷️: Juliette Pavy/Bloomberg

Independence takes lead and Labour support plummets in new Scottish poll LABOUR support has dropped significantly in Scotland while more voters are backing the SNP and Reform, according to a new poll.

NEW: Independence support in the lead as Labour keep losing support in new Ipsos polling

Meanwhile the Greens and Reform are tied on the list on 17% each - will the Scottish media start to better reflect that? Don't bet on it

www.thenational.scot/news/2568720...

'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse' When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues Clive Lewis MP

🔴If Nigel Farage’s Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse

When someone tells you who they are, over and over again, it is wise to listen, argues @labourlewis.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

NEW: The UK Government is in 'moral retreat,' Amnesty International has said, after Keir Starmer urged Europe’s leaders to rehash how a major human rights treaty is interpreted in law

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

Rothesay Winter Gardens to become islander-owned after grant | The Herald

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25682385.rothesay-winter-gardens-become-islander-owned-grant/

#scothinews

The Independent: Former London Zoo meerkat expert fined for glassing monkey-handler in row over llama-keeper.

We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.

She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

Photographer Martin Parr has died. One of his photos was given out to Patrick Thistle fans in 2016.

6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ On this day 2013, KRIS DOOLAN scored Partick Thistle's 6,000th league goal, what a man. 🇧🇪

👉 www.thethistlearchive.net/match-2013-1...

How did he get on?

'us v them' framing in all its guises is utterly poisonous to social democracy and therefore should be avoided like the plague by anyone interested in progressing anything that vaguely looks like social democracy

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Proud to stand with so many trade unionists, community groups and activists, to say no to fascism and the far right. We can't let the billionaires divide us! Ordinary people need to stand together to demand a better world for all!

“Party in the city where the heat is on, all night on the beach till the break of dawn… Sorry, I mean yes it will be a difficult game”

Glorious.

Screenshot of BBC Scotland website showing Ross County 1 Airdrie 2.

Chequebook Roy thinking of manager number three for this season?

Far-right agitators stand accused of stirring up trouble at asylum hotel protests. But anti-racists are standing firm Following a sharp rise in far right activity, we’ve spent the last three months attending protests, speaking to activists under threat, and tracking anti-asylum seeker demonstrations across Scotland.

“We can’t let fascists take over the streets”
www.theferret.scot/f...

What I should have added is, I hope so, because he’s such a total nyaff he’s easier to wind up than a clockwork mouse.

The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers

The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers.

Why the wheels could be about to fall off the Farage project

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...

There's been a definite decline in support for Reform following the Nathan Gill conviction and racism allegations against Farage

Let’s hope so.

I’m totally relaxed about this draw. We’ve never ever qualified from the group stage. We’ve had easy teams, we’ve hard tough teams. Being involved is great. Any success depends on what Scotland turns up.

Slosh > Samba

This is torture.