The Labour Party has been promising to abolish the unelected House of Lords since 1910. Current Labour peers - 173. They lie. Scotland - please don't believe the @RedTories

The vast majority of voters honestly don't give shit about what happens on X, but some tweets are so ill judged, they make the newspapers. This one still stings. An SNP "communications officer" posting this during a cost of living crisis was so out of touch with ordinary people.

That's me in the centre, performing in Basle, Switzerland in 1984. It's true that I haven't been back to Switzerland since, but the country left such an indelible impression on me that I still think of it as my second home, so of course I'll be supporting Switzerland tonight.

This is a Swiss clock. Once I wanted to know what the times was, so I looked at a clock and I felt an instant connection with everyone in Switzerland, so of course I will be supporting Switzerland tonight.

This is my current vibe, the banging new minimalist post punk track from Pandagolff ゆうぼくみん youtu.be/_9C3PxHyI4o?si…

An amazing one woman show from the super talented Yayoi Tsushima, aka Ferret Noise. ferret_noise youtu.be/jjW4eB057AM?si…

Why do so many MPs think that donning a helmet and a hi-vis jacket gives them authority or even street cred? Or is it to divert attention from opening up green belt land to the private housing sector? Sorry, green belt land that “isn’t really green”.

Getting prepped for a wild weekend.

All political parties have predatory males within them. (You'd be surprised how many). I think a large part of the disappointment is that A) we hoped the SNP would be different B) they appear to have had a disproportionate influence and effect on party policy.

I know that Twitter is a mere microverse of the real world, but I genuinely do know people who stopped voting SNP after seeing tweets like these. I have to admit that they were a large influence on me, a former activist, leaving the party. A middle class coup.

"Violence against women and girls is now a national emergency". Terrifying. I know Cardiff very well, and I love it, so this exasperates me, but the reality is that it's happening in other cities too. itv.com/news/2024-07-1…

I am old, so mibbee some younger folk can answer this; Do they still teach critical thinking in schools, colleges and universities? You know, that ability to see things from more than one constricted point of view? I don't see much of it about recently.

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Since 1 Jan 2024, Elon Musk has made at least 50 serious false claims on this platform, and these were read more than 1 billion times. Financial Times He is the most serious threat to democracy out there. ft.com/content/bdd100…

I have blocked a lot of people on here over the years. For the most part, it's not due to opposing political views, but because I think they are thick as shit and I don't want to waste any time on them. They are free to say whatever they like, but I don't have to listen to them.

I guess I'm old fashioned - I don't believe that The Matrix is a real thing, but I do believe misogyny is a form of bigotry.

I am not a fan of Sir Keir Starmer at all, (nor his Labour Party), but it's crazy the amount of people on X whose biggest worry about him is that he's a "communist".

My name is Arthur Knight and I'm an Irish orphan. I wouldn't lie to the Archbishop of Canterbury, so why would I lie to you?

I used to get belted with one of these regularly at secondary school. It had "Made in Lochgelly" stamped on it. I didn't know where Lochgelly was, but assumed it to a place of demonic evil and hellfire.