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I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.

So Farage is teasing a labour defection, and Starmer’s on the point of sacking Streeting. Do it Wes. They despise trans people just as much as you do.

It’s probably not a great sign that the BlueSky UK politics equivalent of Godwin’s Law - the topic that all conversations eventually converge upon - has shifted from ‘what do we define as The North?’ to ‘can the UK actually independently fire its nuclear deterrent?’

This mf reading janky subsamples like they're Gospel 🤣 You can see why a loyal Scottish Labour man like Dunc would gloss over the latest actual Scotland-only polls though 🥀

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Duncan Hothersall@dhothersall.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Absolutely fantastic bit of coat-tail riding from Ross Greer here. If you look at the data tables (findoutnow.co.uk/blog/voting-...) the Scottish Greens are actually only at 7% in this FindOutNow poll. They are substantially dragging down the overall GB Green number (NI wasn't polled).

No one would bother writing a column complaining that racists aren't welcome in the Scottish Greens, regardless of how much they care about tackling the climate emergency. Why do so many journalists struggle with the idea that we take the same position on anti-trans voices?

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My partner and I remain somewhat unconvinced about 'Strife' for Tchaikovsky's 4th 'Children Of ____' book. It feels to general. Book 2 got away with 'Ruin' because nobody could even guess at what would come after 'Time' . They're all children of strife + that ✨✨something else✨✨