📢 “Isn't it also time for a National Commission on Electoral Reform?” 👏 Great to see Labour MPs like Euan Stainbank MP, Simon Opher & Olivia Blake MP calling for the Government to address First Past the Post for general elections 🌹 We need Proportional Representation #Labour4PR

In Our Time is one of the best (and most Reithian) shows left on the BBC and so I really hope that the BBC keep the same format. Also what a rich legacy Melvyn Bragg has created for posterity! Give the man a knighthood!

I think the most interesting thing about Scottish polling is that the by-elections suggest things are close between the big parties, while the infrequent polling says the complete opposite Feel free to retweet this in May next year, but do wonder if the polls weighting is askew.

This is a real hail mary, but has anyone in my Aberdeen circle downloaded a copy of the Gaudie digital archive in the last two years? The original file (which contains a comphrensive record of 1700+ editions dating back to 1934) appears to have been inadvertently deleted.

Just overheard someone talk loudly about how they always use ChatGPT to respond on dating apps. Which definitely feels like an inevitable and yet tragic development!

Just a massive disconnect from the detailed coder studies which find AI doesn’t improve software engineer productivity much (people are mistaken in their self reports); the business studies which find it doesn’t improve revenue — yet AI cap ex holds up half the growth

In 1987 the BBC produced a version of George Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple" starring Patrick Stewart. Why in 2025 is the only options to watch the thing a US Region 1 DVD from the the mid-2000s, or via an American streaming site you can only get via academic access?!?

Parents urge MSPs to reconsider plans to cut neonatal intensive care units across Scotland. news.stv.tv/west-central/p…

The new Mitchell and Webb sketch show is funny. Three episodes in and while I don't think it's reached the heights of The Lion Bar sketch, I'm very pleased to say it's still top tier sketch comedy!

One of the most brutally sad articles I've read in a long time!

star wars movie released after a long hiatus that's really just a few episodes of a tv show grafted together and it features jabba the hutt's son

NEW: Labour's CAC has reversed its decision to block motions on ending the two-child benefit limit. Without an end to the two-child benefit limit, the Government's Child Poverty Strategy is doomed to fail. A statement from Mainstream's Interim Council below👇