@alexgallagher
Retired Jack of no trades. UK/Scottish politics, other politics, Football, Cricket (UK), almost any sport, Science, History and other random stuff. Views my own. Inc the above view from my upstairs window.
It’s now almost 2 months since Nigel Farage was scheduled to appear on #bbclaurak as part of her Leaders Interview but pulled out due to being “under the weather”
He’s currently in America supporting a foreign president over his own country
Please, stop signing bills.
After 10 days they become law by default.
Has Zack heard the old saying about keeping your mouth shut and have people think you're a fool, or opening it and proving them correct?
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
So sad to hear about the huge fire in Glasgow.
But at least it looks like it was contained to a single large building and hadn't dobt major damage to the station.
And to think just one week ago my wife called me when stood outside this building before getting on a train to head back south.
Philp wants us to join the war but has no idea what the intelligence is. Plus other inconsistencies. The tories are a clown show
youtu.be/qoutBIXXJ-o?...
Jake Lang, the white supremacist leader of this violent rally, was pardoned by Trump after participating in January 6th.
Imagine if Democrats had pardoned someone who then led a violent attack on Republican mayors?
It'd be 24-7 news. Our media institutions all bend the knee to the right-wing.
Scene from Hungary tonight as crowds rally against the Russian-backed Orban regime.
The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention.
But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. https://wapo.st/4lbpGYC
A series of Donald Trump tweets from 2011-2013 claiming Obama would start war with Iran for his own political protection—much like Trump is actually doing now.
Tonight’s #FridayLimericks go to the disaster just getting started in Iran.
The U.S. is attacking Iran,
And with nary a concept of plan.
As the carnival barker
Takes turns ever darker,
He’s spinning as fast as he can.
Exclusive to Private Eye: HOW DARE I RESIGN?
By Peter Mandelson
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1021, February 2001.
Starmer's winning streak continues.
Spotted in Nashville this week…
I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.
Another expenses-paid $$$$ earner!
"21,225 people voted for Nigel Farage in Clacton
They hoped he’d make life there better
Instead, he skips key meetings about its regeneration
But finds time to go to Florida & make speeches
He’s laughing at you, #Clacton"
#AntiReform
#SocialistSunday
Simon Tisdall 1 Britain's enemy now is Donald Trump
This is where we are at
Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism”
Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?”
Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power”
#bbclaurak
Lettuce never forget, Liz Truss🥬 was our PM.. sinks in with her post on X that we had a traitor in the top job thanks to the Tory Party
So yes Labour aren’t perfect but Starmer is standing his ground and not being Trump’s puppet like Truss, Sunak or Johnson would have and like Farage would be.. 👍🏼
An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from just 100 influencers.
This minority of users impacts politics, influencing what people view as normal and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.
Chump Then,And Chump Now.......
The people in Hungary are showing that they have enough of Orban.
Best not answer gotcha qusstions.
Labour changed Britain for women: delivering the Equal Pay Act, Sex Discrimination Act, maternity rights and flexible working.
This International Women’s Day, they are continuing that work, to build a more equal future and to empower women in every corner of the country.
Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.
It's beginning to look like Reform is past its high tide mark...with 3 years to the next GE.
The Guardian has a positive article about Labour today on the benefits of the Employment Rights Act 2025, much of which comes into force next month.
Please read the article and share it widely, to let the Guardian know this is more the sort of content we want!
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...
