🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms
"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"
The playful, prolific use of hyperlinks in online journalism (eg Slate, Pitchfork) didn’t anticipate link-rot. Now so many articles are pock-marked with cryptic allusions that some long-dead link once explained. Weird how quickly a new style comes to feel more archaic than the traditional format
The perfect birthday card for the musician friend you actually dislike
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Do you like excellence about his ex-excellency? Then this piece of brilliant writing is for you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In my opinion, Labour are failing to deliver their promised ban on conversion therapy because any legally robust definition of it would show that the NHS are doing it to trans people, and implicate this government in the practice. 4/5
Glasgow, my heart is with you tonight
“Nothing short of a decisive break with Thatcherism will suffice. Not managerial tweaks. Not rhetorical resets. A break.”
We need roughly 60 more women in Parliament to achieve gender parity with the general population - could one of them be you or a friend of yours? If so, #askhertostand
5050parliament.co.uk/ask-her-to-s...
Gonna write a novel in 7th person POV. All the story events happened to the protagonist’s sister’s wife’s neighbour’s brother’s best friend’s cousin.
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
International Women's Day is a chance to celebrate the power, resilience and brilliance of women - but it is also a call to action.
#IWD2026
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“I don’t read my own reviews anymore, not after I made the mistake of reading my own reviews.”
For anyone who would like the clip (including George).
A torn-paper effect separates this from the bottom half, which features a green-tinted photograph of Scottish Green supporters. Overlaid in large, white, capital letters is the message: "HELP US FIGHT BACK BY SUPPORTING OUR CROWDFUNDER." The poster includes a QR code, the URL "edinburgh.greens.scot/fund-2026," and the Edinburgh Greens logo in the bottom right corner.
Reform’s billionaire backers want to fill Holyrood with MSPs that will do their bidding.
@scottishgreens.org are different.
Our MSPs are not for sale. We don’t have billionaires or oil and gas barons writing our policies. Our donations come from ordinary people like you.
“When it was Reform winning, he treated those voters with respect”
Excellent points here about why Greens are surging and why the Labour leadership and the Conservatives are losing the plot. www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
I am begging you, everyone, please do not use LLMs as a source of information for anything important
The UK's permission for the US to use its bases in attacking Iran amounts to complicity in the crime of aggression. It drags us into what could be an endless war, without democratic or even parliamentary consent.
No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers.
They have a legitimate grievance against governments.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
The amount of joy and positivity in the U.K. this morning is wonderful. People voted for community, for inclusion, for collectivism and togetherness. This election has been a complete rejection of division, othering and nasty politics
Hilarious that the “island of strangers” man is coming for the most inclusive electoral coalition going
Our party has just come third in Gorton and Denton, a previously safe Labour seat - an area where we haven't lost an election since 1931.
It is those running our party who are to blame. We need change at the top and serious lessons need to be learnt:
Good morning.
If you've just woken up, the politics of hope just crushed the politics of fear and hatred (Labour-Reform).
It wasn't even close.
40.6% for the Greens. Reform second on 28.7%, Labour third on 25.4%.
Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here
It’d be one thing if deceptive campaigning only rebounded on the offending party, but in practice voters’ trust in politics as a whole is undermined
