LOL. "A Reform UK candidate for the Welsh Senedd elections in May has announced he is standing down because of his mental health, after a photograph emerged of him apparently making a Nazi salut… (View Post)

Will Self on the decline of literacy and the implications for politics. "We’ve lost 50% of literacy in the last fifteen years. So, that epiphenomenon of writers like me being attacked and abando… (View Post)

I see Reform UK Scotland have just lost their FIFTH parliamentary candidate in a week. Seem to be averaging about one a day. Obviously a triumph of their much-lauded (by them) "improved" ve… (View Post)

SNP will win, despite a significantly lower vote-share, because Labour won't be able to take back the Central Belt constituencies due to their own decline. Reform also put at risk the Tory-held … (View Post)

Much bigger pro-Iranian opposition demo in Newcastle at the w/end. Convened in Grey Square, but also lots of pics of regime victims down by the river walk near the Tyne Bridge. Lots of royalist flags… (View Post)