Kathy O'Donnell

Things going very badly indeed for transphobic MP Joani Reid.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is lying. There is no other way to put it. These are lies.

'It's couthy, it's cringey, embarrassing and twee: that's Bonnie Scotland on the BBC'

I look at the failure of BBC Scotland in my Counter Culture column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Here's a link www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2590...

And here's a taster

Read my accessible analysis of Goodwin v UK – why it still matters, and what the courts are getting wrong – here:

The guy who filmed Andrew Tate dancing in Dubai

Lazy click bait journalism. You cannot reliably amalgamate results of a global survey when the views held by Gen Z men in different countries vary so widely. The combined number used in the article is meaningless for anything other than outrage and fuelling generational divisions.

UK government knew Anna Netrebko was sanctioned by Ukraine. FOI documents show what happened next. - Euromaidan Press From the FCDO to the Treasury, five government bodies had one response to Ukraine's formal objections: dismiss, reframe, forget.

How the Royal Opera House and UK Govt let the Russian soprano who shilled for Putin to perform in London despite being under sanction by Ukraine...
... and how they blanked criticism, ignored FOIs and dodged responsibilities.
Great journalism by Ben Fletcher
euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/05/u...

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Jeffrey Epstein, Russell Brand, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. It’s the same story: power protecting power.

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Today's best fact.

"The school for girls.
Strike the school for girls.
99.999% chance of nuclear weapons.
Would you like a recipe for walnut cake?"

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Supreme Court blocks California restrictions on schools notifying parents about students' transgender status Parents and teachers who oppose the state policies sued, claiming their parental, free speech and religious rights were violated.

If you think what is happening in America can't happen here, it already is. This is in effect pretty much the same as Labour's "guidance" for schools, and means trans young people put at risk of abuse if parents are told. Schools should be safe for trans young people.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

He must have been gutted not to get In Our Time.

Perfection.

In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.

🤬 Russia executed 337 Ukrainian prisoners of war in 2025, — Lubinets

🙏 Over 95% of released defenders were subjected to systematic torture. The data is confirmed by the UN.

#NoPeaceWithoutJustice 🇺🇦

The UK Government leans ever further toward what the extreme right demand, instead of confronting it and showing leadership against the tide of racism.

Eisenhower

...and if the US doesn't like them, he has other principles.

Ordering the RAF to defend Cyprus and other targets with British bases and civilians is a very different proposition from allowing the use of UK-owned bases for US forces to strike at Iran.
The former is wise, the latter complicity.

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

"using Palantir’s software would increase dependence on a U.S. provider. It also poses the risk of losing data sovereignty and thereby national sovereignty.

"Above all, however, the army’s staff experts say it remains unclear who has access to data shared with Palantir."

🆘 Expert Trita Parsi, senior analyst on US-Iran diplomacy, says a stronger deal than even the Obama-era agreement was within reach before the conflict escalated and could have been a diplomatic win for Trump if pursued.

Trump could have taken the win.

He chose escalation.
#IranWar

How about not taking part in this illegal war waged by a fascist?

What a fucking idiot.

The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.

Do I know any philanthropic people who wanna help me get my tabletop sci-fi adventure “Planet of the Grapes” to Edinburgh? I’m a non-profit so you can write it off. 🍇

Excellent.
May I recommend Libre Office? Replaces MS Office. Open source, free, works beautifully with your former Word/Excel/etc documents.
No hateful AI.

Good and necessary work. Well done.

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

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