I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups.
But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.
interesting take …. why does life have to be like a great game of chess?
Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the governments jury trial reforms
Every Labour MP should listen to her incredibly powerful and brave statement in parliament today
holy shit
Seven-try Scotland stun France to end Les Bleus' Six Nations Grand Slam hopes
Absolute treasure trove of a site. Will warm your heart when it needs to be warmed.
What better than my pizza ?
No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.
Latest substack from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Woman takes a smartphone picture of a painting in an art gallery.
Stat - visits to South Shields Museum & Art Gallery are up 31% since the opening of The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour - Monet: In the Presence of Nature.
Continues until 25 March 2026. Will you be visiting?
“The certainties of the US’s stewardship of the ‘international rules-based order’ have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide but no alternative architecture has taken their place. Instead, there’s a politics of gangster imperialism that has neither international nor domestic consent”
My cousin Charlotte and her friends are cycling hundreds of miles across Scotland, for the Doddie Triple Crown, raising money for research and support for MND patients.
If you could help at all, donating or sharing this link, they - and I - would be so grateful.
www.justgiving.com/team/grittyg...
evil
A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'
what a total pigs ear! What would happen if someone attacked USA?
As someone from Northern Ireland, may I offer the answer: Northern Ireland
excellent… asking the correct questions and they haven’t got an answer!
In Finland, teachers run schools without paperwork, oversight, supervision or micro-management from on high. How is that possible?
Simple. 'They are professionals. We trust them.'
Result. World's best education.
Next Finland screenings - Dundee & Tarland lesleyriddoch.com/events
hmm
Let's try this again 👋
Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.
I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
They live/ lived in Canada what has what happens in Uk got do with them?
@oliahercules.bsky.social will cook borsch tomorrow on #SaturdayKitchen 10am live on #BBCOne then at #BBCIplayer. She asks us please to spread the word, especially among 300k strong displaced Ukrainians in the UK+hopes this will be a good boost of morale. #standwithukraine A delicious bowl of borsch!
@oliahercules.bsky.social will cook borsch tomorrow on #SaturdayKitchen 10am live on #BBCOne then at #BBCIplayer. She asks us please to spread the word, especially among 300k strong displaced Ukrainians in the UK+hopes this will be a good boost of morale. #standwithukraine
@nigella.bsky.social
Mycorrhizal apologies….
In 1997 I started work in SAC Aberdeen with Mycorrizal Fungi … I had no idea what it was… Amazing that it now is a commercial
product
Yesterday I saw a tractor spreading something in a field very near to our house. It was causing a dust. The field had been lying fallow for a few months but within the last 2 weeks there have been sheep grazing there. Oh I thought the sheep must have gone….. but no today the sheep were still there.
My latest blog piece, a look at how UK Government energy policy is financially penalising Scottish energy producers and consumers in order to subsidise the south of England, and contaminating Scotland with radioactive waste.
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/w...
Infinite Women: Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
In this episode of the @infinite-women.com podcast, @drcleoocy.bsky.social & @kateferrier.bsky.social discuss the novelist Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854)
#C18 #C19 #romanticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHj...
aye but that was good news for me…
