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Alisdair Calder McGregor

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Queer, Liberal, European. He/Him. I am a Liberal and I am against this sort of thing.

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Once Upon A Midnight Dreary

WOKE: Putting a raven on a tenner
BESPOKE: Gitting about as a fictional raven in this silly choose your own adventure raven simulator game I wrote (not for kids, there's rude bits, some alcoholism/MH themes & swearing) j2gb9g9f.play.borogove.io

11.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Nigel Farage sparks more confusion over Reform stance on Iran war Farage said on Tuesday Britain should β€˜not get ourselves involved in another foreign war’

One day Reform is all for joining the US strikes on Iran. Now Farage says we should not get involved in another foreign war.

They are clearly panicking and rowing back on their previous stance.

Reform cannot be trusted with our national security.

11.03.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck no. Absolutely not. Cut disability benefits but give tax dodgers a get out of jail free card?

11.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Taking the piss

11.03.2026 16:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Biased letter opens Streeting’s puberty blockers decision up to challenge Ministers shouldn’t base policy on opinions that are biased, so we’re challenging Streeting’s flawed decision

REVEALED πŸ‘€

Who wrote the letter Wes Streeting relied on when he paused the puberty blockers trial?
https://goodlaw.social/t7ks

11.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 197 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

I would suggest Count Duckula for the fiver and Peppa Pig for the Β£50 but ok

11.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Conservative party logo is a tree.

11.03.2026 14:52 πŸ‘ 305 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 2

"Fossil fuels should be more expensive but not now" - literally every government for the last 20 years.

11.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I put "European" on the census, because both English and British mean the kind of flagshagging racist twuntery that I don't want to be associated with, and because those kinds of people are responsible for stealing my European citizenship from me.

11.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my favourite literary put-downs is from Douglas Adams's The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Zaphod Beeblebrox, who often reacts in erratic ways, claims to be β€œpretty dangerous when I'm cornered,” to which Ford Prefect responds β€œyou go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”

11.03.2026 11:17 πŸ‘ 335 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Future linguistics researchers are going to spend decades explaining the early 21st century word shift that caused the word "Freedom" to change meaning from "the ability to act without compulsion" to "the power to utter complete bollocks without restraint".

11.03.2026 11:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

11.03.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Minesweeping is woke.

11.03.2026 09:47 πŸ‘ 180 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe the reason no one has ever tried this before was because CENTCOM never could come up with a good plan

11.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 125 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Oil Price go up.

Everything made from, with or derived from oil also gets more expensive.

No it does not matter if your country produces oil.

If the price goes up anywhere it goes up everywhere.

11.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Straight of Malacca is a *huge* geopolitical and economically critical one, connecting the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

The Straight of Dover, between France and England, which handles the vast majority of shipping for all of the North Sea and Baltic ports.

11.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

11.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Please. We have enough LibDem factions already; they will have to take a ticket and get in line.

11.03.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One upside of the potentially imminent demise of the Labour Party would be an end to the Labour factions forever war (at least until it reappears with in or between the Greens and Lib Dems)

10.03.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1
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This 18-year-old Afghan girl nearly escaped the Taliban – then we took her visa away She resisted a forced marriage and studied in secret, winning scholarships to leave Kabul and attend a British university. But now the home secretary’s ban on study visas has removed her one chance of...

This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

08.03.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 150 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 13

β€œβ€¦& it is a pattern with a long & inglorious history….”

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β€œThe implication is that lived experience is a source of contamination rather than data…a deeply paternalistic stance. Listening to patients is not a failure of scientific rigour; it is a prerequisite for it.”

#spΓ©irghorm #Autistic #ADHD

10.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why does this petition need signing - because anything involving women’s breasts is somehow β€œadult content β€œ - the petition is about CPR

10.03.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

this should genuinely be a requirement for the perv glasses existing

10.03.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 229 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Same pattern in UK polling. YouGov's last big poll on trans issues also indexed respondents' views on other social prejudices, and what do you know - pro-trans respondents were much more likely to recognise misogyny and see it as a problem, anti-trans respondents more likely to dismiss it!

10.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jess Phillips backs jury bill as she reveals she is β€˜victim of courts backlog’ Exclusive: Safeguarding minister says man accused of restraining order breach will not come to court until 2028

So her interest in the jury bill isn't that austerity has deprived us all, only that it's inconvenienced her personally? As long as the state works for Jess Phillips why bother funding it to work for people who actually need justice?

10.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Any British town that ends -chester or -cester means "fortified town of/on/by..." something

10.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Removing trial by jury will not help victims, it'll create victims, and erode basic rights.

What's needed is better funding for the courts, and also in education to prevent people falling into crime in the first place.

"But there's no money."

TAX. THE. FUCKING. RICH.

10.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

09.03.2026 20:19 πŸ‘ 2523 πŸ” 830 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 48

Off-Topic, but: Double-Voting has been generally rising over time IIRC. Although 2025 was surprisingly low with 10.

10.03.2026 11:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0