Ian McIntosh

Badenoch is completely out of her depth

@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.care cannot hide is very justified exasperation at how England's students are being ripped off and have been failed by years of successive Westminster Governments.

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The web of lies

This is also how every call to "slash red tape" or "deregulate" should be handled.

Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.

Social media screenshot Ryan honest.... gotta quit, right? Leaving early yesterday? Inbox x to me Hi Ryan, I noticed you headed out a little early yesterday (4:57 PM). While we appreciate your work, we need to make sure we are being fair to the rest of the team who stay until the end of the workday. To make up the time deficit, you can either take a slightly shorter lunch today or stay until 5:03 PM this evening. Let's make sure we are watching the clock a bit closer moving forward. We are a team! Thanks, Sharon

Remember, kids
If you join a union you can tell Sharon to fuck right off

genuinely feels like the Daily Record trying to get Angela Constance killed

I genuinely don't know what to say about this stuff anymore. It's deliberate disinformation. There can be no other explanation.

Hampstead Heath Ponds to remain inclusive The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive

The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive

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Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling Rest of UK has so far resisted calls to make it mandatory for developers to install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds Swift bricks will be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after the Scottish parliament voted in favour of a law to help endangered cavity-nesting birds. The Scottish government and MSPs across the parties backed an amendment by Scottish Green Mark Ruskell to make swift bricks mandatory for all new dwellings “where reasonably practical and appropriate”. Continue reading...

Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling

A quiet reminder: When the allies liberated the concentration camps, many of the Gay people who were imprisoned were not set free.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Well worth a listen from Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos summit.

Commonwealth Games: Northern Ireland team chief still seeking guidance on flag There have been suggestions in recent years that the Ulster Banner should no longer be used to represent NI athletes.

😳 ‘The Union Flag has no official status in Northern Ireland nor any other part of the United Kingdom.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Priceless.

So you’re telling me that Wes Streeting shouting at the unions isn’t the best way to handle these situations? Very surprising.

Thoughts and prayers to the ICE killer who is recovering in hospital from not being run over by anyone.

Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.

The Final Word on Labour’s Flawed and Dangerous Nuclear Energy Plans Visit the post for more.

SMRs
‘Anas Sarwar challenges SNP to support nuclear power to ‘end reliance on dictators like Putin.’

But, it emerges that SMRs require a richer blend of uranium fuel and Putin’s Russia has a complete monopoly on the commercial production of that.
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Not often (never?) that I whole hardheartedly agree with Anas Sarwar, but here I'd say. Gawn yersel' & well done Anas!)

Every. Single. Word.👏

"Mike's on his phone, Mike couldn't care less. It makes me want to cry"

Ooof.

Representative from Covid bereaved families group calls out Welsh Labour politician for being on his phone "all the way through" their discussion about Covid response in Wales.

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YouTube video by Scottish Chamber Orchestra Whisky Mouth

I don’t like whisky, but this is just delicious, upbeat & fabulous! youtu.be/LWT1tPE7BFQ?...

I don't disagree but would have more sympathy if Labour hadn't joined with the Tories & LibDems in helping the BBC in Scotland do exactly the same to SNP/ScotGov for the last 17 years. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.

"I earned a Bronze Star for my leadership under fire. When I was promoted to major, one of my supervisors wrote that there was 'no limit' to my potential in the Army.

"I am being forced out of the Army solely because I'm transgender." 👇

𝘐𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘜𝘚𝘈 𝘛𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺

Screenshot of a headline reading: "Refugees' jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister."

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country

A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

I just want a government that is morally *better* than this.

"Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than "politics." They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren't nice people? Resisters." - Naomi Shulman

Joey Barton’s lawyer questioning Lucy Ward about his posts likening her and Eni Aluko to Fred and Rose West. Just about the most perfect response I have heard in a very long time.