Ally Maciver

London does it, Manchester does it, Liverpool does it. Wales and the West Midlands are about to do it. So why is it only in Scotland that the media loses its mind over plans to bring buses into public control? Answer: because it’s an SNP policy and the Scottish media has lost all sense of balance

Metallica is what happens when angry youth turns into rich senescent…

The main argument every petrolhead has against EVs is range. The only part of this cars spec petrolheads never talked about was range. 9 out of 10 EVs have got a greater range than a Subaru Impreza WRX STi. I’m not 100% convinced petrolheads actually give a shit about range to be honest…

HMRC have failed to collect £500Bn+ of taxes since 2010, and there's a continual softly, softly approach on the mega wealthy, but hey, those pensioners are growing orchards of those magic money trees on their allotments!

We need to restructure everything to make it easier for good people to do good things and much much harder for bad people to do bad things! Instead of putting the bad people in charge of everything and emasculating the good people…

Have Man City been kicked into non-league yet?

The use of the phrase “double down” relating to Earl Spencer’s comments is carefully chosen. This phrase is almost exclusively used to describe a stubborn refusal to back down when everyone accepts you are misguided, or morally wrong. It is not an impartial portrayal of the “news”…

If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...

Just a quick recap :

According to the latest #Indyref2 polling by Survation in August 2026, Among people who did not vote in the 2014 independence referendum, approximately 68% currently say Yes and 32% say No. This is why Westminster don’t want the vote. They know they’re screwed.

If the grown ups were in charge there would be an acceptance that the UK is dysfunctional and no longer fit for purpose. And the proper solution is to first hand full autonomy to each constituent part of these islands and then let each part hold its own referendum on a redrafted Act of Union.

The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.

Racism is like mushrooms, they grow best in darkness…

Scientists, clever people who typically are not rich, tell us the world is in danger. People who make fuck tons of money from fossil fuels, tell us to drill baby drill. Who you gonna believe? People like David Attenborough? Or people like Donald Trump? Its important to get this answer correct…

This is seriously weird. And I’m not talking about the hat, specs and moustache combo…

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Politics has to be nationalised. The one thing that should never have happened is the privatisation of democracy. Donations must be banned…

Why is it people that try to act Devil’s Advocate over the Dover protests end up losing their shit and accusing you of defending “third world subhuman parasites” within half a dozen posts? Farage and his pals have really managed to mobilise the stupid…

Germans voted for the Far Right because their Media is controlled by Far Right Billionaires from Washington and Tel Aviv. And they are doing the same in every single country in the Western World.

Seen this attitude so many times. Its not an unfair representation of how internet access has gutted the music industry…

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

“My profession smiles at hard-right figures when they walk into a TV studio and are given a disproportionate amount of air time to make their fact-free assertions while nodding along to their scapegoating of the weak.” ✍️ Patrick Howse

“The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” (Not my quote, don’t know who said it).

Danny Tommo, the man who organised the blackshirts rally, openly telling us a foreign American think tank wired him £30k for his very first street protest. Foreign money is propping up the British far right

If you have to wear a balaclava you are not a protestor or a demonstrator. You are a thug. Its sickening that in this country politicians “understand” the grievances of the far right, and treat actual peaceful protesters as criminals and terrorists.

When “fighting age men” dress up like this, its not a protest or a demonstration. Where is the spirit of Cable Street?

@thetrawl.bsky.social How to give feedback to Google Maps on the naming of Lakes, Gulfs, Straits and Golf Courses… [google placename, click three dots on the right, provide feedback, click submit].

Giving feedback to Google…

From Lisbon Lions to Linz Kittens… Miaow…

Meanwhile, in a retarded back alley just across the sea from France, Belgium and Netherlands…

Nearly a fifth of UK pensioners live in poverty. Two-thirds of single pensioners in poverty are female. Low wages prevent private pensions DB pension schemes gone Gender pay/pension gap Full state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage Yet neoliberals push lower state pension. archive.ph/W6cH3

Tory Legacy 6.15m people awaiting 7.27m hospital appointments in England. 3,000 a day treated in corridors. 300,000 a year die awaiting hospital appointment. Good health not seen as investment. Healthy life expectancy declining. Govts obsessed with fiscal rules and 'mustn't tax the super rich'.

#Clacton

There were a hundred people on that flight, including the entire press pool. They didn’t know there was a credible threat against the life of someone who sneaked off the plane to save his own skin. Everyone else was deemed “expendible”… Have a think about that.

Asset stripping, killing jobs, deliberately bankrupting businesses for a quick profit, SHOULD be a crime… Capitalism is a cult.

Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped So here is mine If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great👇

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Saying climate change is “just summer” is the same as someone on the Titanic saying “its just water…” There are no life boats on a dying planet…

I’ve been saying this for years. 9 out of 10 charities should not be charities…

Anas Sarwar has achieved what Jackie Baillie has spent her entire servile existence craving, what she has spent her whole life working for, like Gollum in a fucking cave… Some people actually covet their second class status, as a grovelling outsider, desperate for scraps from their masters table…

You don’t have to tax wealth to redistribute it. Just stop using public money to bail out private failures. Let Thames Water go bust. Share holders lose everything. Lenders/Banks lose billions. Rich people are less rich. The poor are better off - by not paying for the bail out. Market forces baby…

Let me get this right? If we stop funding the BBC…? …no more East Enders??? Where do I sign up?