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It's good to know that Roddy Dunlop is an awful lawyer as well as being an awful person.

He's now been the lawyer behind suing both Kezia Dugdale and Lorna Slater and lost both. Bit of a theme building.
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Some Times columnists are going to be very upset
BREAKING: A waste management firm’s £51.4 million legal claim against the Scottish Government over its aborted deposit return scheme has been thrown out
January 16, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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You know you're real feminist warriors for women and especially lesbians when you're backed by the anti-abortion and homophobia financiers the Christian Legal Centre
January 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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I hope the Nobel Peace Prize committee learned an important lesson
January 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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"You've misrepresented a non-party partisan campaigner on your campaign leaflets, will you apologise?"

"No, and also, this is what I reckon she thinks about how the SNP has screwed up."

Wild.
January 15, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Musk is now openly mocking Keir Starmer for being so weak he won't even stand up to AI images of himself in a bikini - and Starmer still won't do anything about it
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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The last Scottish police officer killed on duty was 30 years ago.

This, if implemented, will get officers killed as criminal groups arm themselves in response.

It is the Police Union risking the lives of their officers so they can feel more manly, that's it.

www.thenational.scot/news/2576659...
Police Scotland officers lobby politicians for guns on duty
POLICE Scotland officers are set to ask MSPs to support them having access to guns while on duty
www.thenational.scot
January 15, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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British foreign affairs is a constant game of Starmer and his team insisting that doing certain things aren't possible and its far more complicated than you can possibly understand immediately before Emmanuel Macron or Pedro Sánchez just go ahead and do it.

From Greenland to Palestine to Trump.
January 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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How on earth are they this credulous? May as well be doing Musk's personal PR for him
What Starmer was informed of was this news report in the Telegraph, based on observing the site's response to requests
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Government sources say it was not info from X (nor Ofcom). X has not responded to the PM's remarks
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No 10 welcomes reports X is addressing Grok deepfakes
The use of the AI tool to digitally undress women has sparked a backlash as well as intervention from the government and regulator.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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"They were awarded a contract price of between £89.49 and £91.20 a megawatt-hour (MWh) in 2024 prices."

Paging an energy expert - isn't this basically what wholesale energy prices are now? Weren't these billed as a chance to reduce energy bills?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction
Subsidies guaranteeing price for each unit of clean electricity generated given to 12 renewables projects
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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It is wild how tech executives simply believe whatever companies who sell GenAI tech tell them about their own successes in using GenAI tech.

Would you believe a car salesmen telling you about how amazing an experience he had with every car?
January 14, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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"I don't understand why so many German citizens just stood by and let it happen..."

Maybe ask Americans you know, as an openly racist fascist military force raids their cities assaulting, kidnapping, and murdering people whilst many Americans cheer them on and many more do nothing.
January 14, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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Sometimes you've just gotta hand it to Games Workshop gizmodo.com/games-worksh...
Games Workshop Rejects the Abominable Intelligence
The makers of 'Warhammer' declare heresy on generative AI, banning its use in the company's design process.
gizmodo.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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"This generation of Britons couldn't handle the death toll of a modern war"

Yes, that is a good thing, any population that is psychologically prepared for massive amounts of violent death is one that has been scarred and traumatised already.

It's a huge success that we aren't.
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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This would be an earthshake.

Not only Labour going from the party of Wales to fourth, but a pro-independence majority appearing out of nowhere.

It'll make the Scottish results look like barely more than a few seat exchanges.
BREAKING: Explosive new poll for ITV Cymru Wales puts Plaid Cymru surging ahead of Reform UK in May’s Welsh elections.

Plaid 37%
Reform 23%
Greens 13%
Labour 10%
Tories 10%
Lib Dems 5%

Plaid could form majority with Greens on this basis, with Labour out of govt for first time since devolution.
January 13, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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It's not just politicians whose brains are being turned to racist gunk by Twitter, it's also the owner of Epic Games

aftermath.site/email/a085c7...
Aftermath Bonus Blog: Now More Than Ever, It Is Imperative That Tim Sweeney Log Off
Please, Tim, we're begging you
aftermath.site
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Must suck to be a Scottish Labour MSP and know you have basically nothing to do with the Scottish budget as the LibDems and Greens have the whole constructive engagement to deliver wins for their voters situation already sorted
January 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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This mansion tax is *far* more extensive than the Westminster equivalent, which only kicks in on homes that are £2m+, which are much rarer than homes between £1-2m.

Great news!
The Scottish Government has agreed to both key
@scottishgreens.org tax proposals:

✈️ A new tax on the 12,000 private jet flights taken in Scotland every year

🏰 A 'Mansion Tax' on £1 million+ homes

This will raise millions for services like schools and our NHS.
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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I think this column is, basically, completely wrong.

There is nothing "amorphous" about the rage directed at Starmer. The left hate him because he keeps kicking their friends in performative cruelty. The right hates him because he feeds their hateful paranoia.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When crowds direct offensive chants at Keir Starmer, who’s to blame? I’m afraid he is | Jonathan Liew
The PM’s technocrat tendencies and lack of obvious backbone make him a target for amorphous rage, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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It is wild that *anyone* bought into this obvious a scam from this obvious a conman
Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it.

Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
January 13, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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This should be a national scandal of the scale of the Post Office disaster. A deliberate use of cruelty as a weapon against legitimate benefit claimants.
NEW: HMRC chief admit to Treasury that 71% of those who had child benefit suspended were in fact legitimate beneficiaries who had not emigrated.
Up from 63%
Meg Hillier: So you banked 5% of cohort (you suspended). "A lot of pain to have gone trough for "
January 13, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Watching regulators going "launching an investigation into Grok" as if the criminal content isn't public and readily available to literally everyone at any time
a black and white drawing of a stick figure with the words `` c mon , do something ... '' .
Alt: a black and white drawing of a stick figure with the words `` c mon , do something ... '' .
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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When this was discovered among my friends a while ago UKIP was already considered so irrelevant that it was entirely used as an excuse to mock our local Black Templars player.

But notable now that Farage's ex-outfit is now just explicitly far-right, bordering openly neo-nazi.
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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They can hear you calling them monstrous shitheads trying to destroy society and the economy and it makes them sad.

So you just know the message is to keep doing it more and louder.

gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...
Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
gizmodo.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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You just know this column sprung into her mind over drinks with someone who mentioned that Miliband actually doesn't mind trans people and doesn't want to drive them out of society
January 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM