Andy Burnham begins his premiership with a net approval rating of +16, a 20-point rise in his approval since previous Opinium poll, when he was PM-elect in mid-July 🌹 Burnham +16 🔶 Davey +1 🌳 Badenoch +1 🌍 Polanski -20 ➡️ Farage -24
Kevin Hague
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Investor/chair of a couple of Scottish businesses; chair of constitutional think tank These Islands; keen analyst of Scotland’s economic data (particularly “GERS” #fml); occasional political commentator; runner, hill walker & dog lover - views own, obv
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
He remains, to this day, the first and only songwriter to have voluntarily renounced his songwriting royalties for a charity record and forced his publisher to accept it. He could have made millions from that song. They went to the actual charity instead.
this (as with so much else Philippe writes) is a thread very much worth reading
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 8mo agoA propos of nothing, it's taken as a given that Bob Geldof should be made fun of and that his Band Aid Christmas song is not just a maddening tune, but also a prime example of the White Saviour syndrome. I'd just like to add something to this take, which I've only learnt about very recently.
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news. Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters Down by 140k isn't thought to be. Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
so proud of the progress Highland Broadband has made - now fully funded to address the “digital divide” experienced in large parts of the Scottish Highlands www.linkedin.com/posts/highla...
Watch as Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP unveils £50m private and public investment in Highland Broadband, Scotland’s full fibre broadband builder. We were delighted to be joined earlier this…...
Watch as Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP unveils £50m private and public investment in Highland Broadband, Scotland’s full fibre broadband builder. We were delighted to be joined earlier this ...
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OK this is amazing. Trump’s Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which company debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order to end use of “Woke AI” in federal government. Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc: www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
i’m willing to accept that there might be a worse innovation than the Dyson Airblade Tap, but if there is i have yet to see it
some journalists’ thirst for grievance is insatiable, this is egregiously bad reporting: the UK obviously can’t benefit from electricity which *isn’t generated* and Scotland doesn’t “bear the brunt” of these constraint PAYMENTS, it *benefits* from them (ffs) www.heraldscotland.com/news/2558775...
when I say “Scotland” here i risk falling into the Nationalists’ trap - i should really say “the private companies who rely on the GB energy market’s subsidy regime to support their investment in wind farms in Scotland”
some journalists’ thirst for grievance is insatiable, this is egregiously bad reporting: the UK obviously can’t benefit from electricity which *isn’t generated* and Scotland doesn’t “bear the brunt” of these constraint PAYMENTS, it *benefits* from them (ffs) www.heraldscotland.com/news/2558775...
a man wearing a helmet and a trench coat is saying `` we 're doomed '' in a dark room .
ALT: a man wearing a helmet and a trench coat is saying `` we 're doomed '' in a dark room .
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Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 9mo agoWestminster Voting Intention: RFM: 32% (=) GRN: 17% (+2) CON: 16% (-1) LAB: 16% (=) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 2% (=) Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct. Changes w/ 22 Oct.
more focus group frustration: just listened to group all agreeing that in the English press “Andy Murray was always Scottish if he lost and British if he was winning” another myth that persists despite having been thoroughly debunked 🫤 www.stir.ac.uk/news/2015/11....
A few outlets covered Musk making more explicit his calls for his ally Tommy Robinson to lead a movement that now prepares for violence and pre-empts (begins) a civil war with violence, claiming it is community self-defence. Most did not think there was any news here www.google.com/search?sca_e...
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1/ 🚨 Kate Forbes says SNP members “must avoid talking publicly about currency”. (According to SNP branch meeting minutes leaked at Tim Rideout’s Scottish Currency Group conference.)
