of all the saunas in Helsinki, managed to go to the one with a subscription to the LRB
Kenmure Street references in the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony there 👀
Could it be that the breathless headlines that led the Scottish media all weekend about a resurgent North Sea were more just populist vibes/messaging than any real policy shift 🤔🤔🤔
Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2w agoBrilliant news. Miatta Fahnbulleh is by far the best person Andy Burnham could’ve appointed to this role. The energy transition will accelerate. bsky.app/profile/poli...
need more Basque flags in this autonomous community flag parade
Winning at all levels, growth rate, foreign policy, immigration policy, energy policy, list is long
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w agoa truly masterful performance by Spain. actually what peak performance looks like
all the Glasgow emos now aged between 30-40 really outing themselves on instagram over the last 24 hrs
Pine marten at Loch of the Lowes, Dunkeld at 5am yesterday 🤩
This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.
COME ON SCOTLAND 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
You know BlueSky is too US centric because there’s people happy that the USMNT are winning
Michael Kelly getting airtime on the BBC this morning to call for all protests to be banned in Glasgow - deary me. This was in fact the course of action taken when he was Lord Provost in early 80s - months long bans across all of Strathclyde. As explored in my book! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is good on the far right's embrace of imagery, fake or real.. "People do not live or experience their lives by data, and they do not care... one image of real violence can overwhelm all evidence"
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoThe right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone | Jason Okundaye
Some immediate rambling reflections on the demo at Buchanan Steps at Glasgow, where the organised far-right were overwhelmingly outnumbered by the forces of anti-racism and migrant solidarity -
It'd apparently be a slippery slope for the Electoral Commission to *fuckin do something* about the fake party that yer man in red, one of the sad far right pricks penned in here, tries to pass off as the Greens and as such robs people of their votes
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Mad how much Facebook - which I literally only use for local community groups - just offers up Rupert Lowe posts all the time. And click on one, and you keep getting more!
God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.
What’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?
Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between
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anyone modelled the impact of universal £2 (or indeed, free) buses on intercity trains? Seems mad that an open return Glasgow-Inverness will be £74 on publicly owned rail vs £4 by privately owned coach? Same journey time too.
No fewer than FIVE Mr Kerr's have just been elected as MSPs to Scottish Parliament: 🎗 Alex Kerr 🎗 Calum Kerr 🔵 Liam Kerr 🔵 Stephen Kerr 💠 Thomas Kerr There were only two Mr Kerr's at Holyrood in the last Parliamentary session. Now five, are we going to need a plural noun for them?
Absolutely gutted for the brilliant Mags Hall, who missed out by 0.1%, with IGV taking 0.9%. Meanwhile in Argyll and Bute, *voting staff* mixed up the IGV and SGP *during the count*. Very, very big questions for the Electoral Commission.
Ballot Box Scotland@ballotbox.scot · 3mo agoI believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this.
I believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this.
This implies Paul Sweeney sneaks in in Glasgow & Annie Wells & Sandsesh Gulhane lose their seats
Ballot Box Scotland@ballotbox.scot · 3mo agoGlasgow only awaiting one more constituency (Rutherglen and Cambuslang); it cannot change the maths here, Greens have 3 Glasgow MSPs (two on list, one constituency). No Conservative.
Glasgow Southside (Glasgow) Constituency Vote (vs 2021 notional): GRN: 14048 (36.5%, +36.2) SNP: 10947 (28.4%, -31.5) LAB: 7300 (19%, -10.9) RUK: 3019 (7.8%, New) CON: 1383 (3.6%, -3.5) LD: 1143 (3%, +1.2) OTHx2: 659 (1.7%) Valid Turnout: 59.1% Green GAIN from SNP ^AF
Banffshire and Buchan Coast (North East Scotland) Constituency Vote (vs 2021 notional): SNP: 10374 (35.2%, -9.7) RUK: 10010 (33.9%, New) CON: 6348 (21.5%, -21.5) LD: 1162 (3.9%, +0.6) LAB: 1049 (3.6%, -3.2) IND: 555 (1.9%) Valid Turnout: 47.9% SNP HOLD - JB
