@sparksstirling
Professor of Retail Studies, University of Stirling, Chair Scotland's Towns Partnership, Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh, Extremely long-suffering Welsh rugby fan, occasional gardener. Stirlingretail.com
As I was saying...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2591442...
These are vigilantes. It's the Trump playbook. Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. Stoke it enough. Get votes
Just like Reform's Fuckwit, arch Islamophobic Jenrick meandering through London Underground accosting alleged fare dodgers for TikTok likes.
Reform. Stop them
Chinless Paedophile, Serial Rapist and Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate has been detained in Saudia Arabia under suspicion of Terrorism.
Refused to comply with an instruction from a security officer, became aggressive, refused to be searched.
Carré on!
In Carré we trust!
This is what Farage and Badenoch support
Very interesting to see conservative-coded language used for progressive purposes here. Looking forward to what comes next for this project from some of my favourite urbanism thinkers!
I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime.
That puts a whole new spin on things.
Propagandists in pocket of regime.
It's why all the messaging is the same.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...
It's proper dystopian stuff going down in UAE.
A strange totalitarian Truman Show in the sand where everyone is acting on through.
On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...
Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.
You just knew which side the Right would come down on.
If these people are found to be working for a foreign power, Keir Starmer will be personally responsible. Whereas when a senior Reform colleague is jailed for ten years for taking bribes from Russia, that is nothing to do with me.
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
A tidy summation of current events.
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.
Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu
Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort
Trump confirms that HIS war is illegal.
Excellent short thread on some of Glasgow's grocers
@historicshopfronts.bsky.social @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social
"The Peace President."
bsky.app/profile/paul...
There is something to be said for those holding British citizenship paying taxes here even if they don’t live here, this is the system the US has.
Otherwise they do just slope back here when things get tough and use our NHS, our infrastructure without contributing.
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:
"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".
"You're talking about disenfranchising British Commonwealth voters. Yet I think you are making an exception for another cohort of foreigners; Irish people."
"What is the difference? What would you say to people who suspect maybe there's a racial dimension to that idea?"
👏 Excellent question.
Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
Trump called it.
In 2019 😜
The Turkish sauna in the Arlington Baths Club, Glasgow is 150 years old, and I'm giving a lecture on the history and context of the baths on 13 March 2026 at 7pm.
This is so good, we wish WE had made it! The history & lunacy of the disinformation campaign around 15-Minute Cities, by 2 “non experts” @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social who show how experts SHOULD be communicating. Thanks to the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social podcast. #UrbanTruth
🇬🇧 Mackie’s of Scotland hits fastest growth in its history after distribution wins www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/mackies...
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
Under a Reform UK government, only British citizens will be able to vote. FARAGE: Letting non-British citizens vote in UK threatens democracy
Farage and Reform are bad losers.
Their failure to secure the seat was down to the vast majority of voters roundly rejecting their hate because Gorton and Denton is a progressive place.
68% of voters in the constituency voted Green, Labour or Lib Dem.
Don't let them use lies to twist the truth.
As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?
