“Faith” as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price. Friedrich Nietzsche After six years of delays, and despite the filibustering of the Tories. On the 22nd of December, the Gender Recognition Reform bill finally passed. But, within an hour of its passing, Alister Jack, had said Westminster would
Read MoreI’m back at work today and so not in the office (I foolishly thought two days would be enough!), but I’ll do my best to live blog today’s events. You can watch today’s proceedings after FMQs which starts at noon (est. 1:15pm) on ScottishParliment.tv. if you’re on Twitter you can follow Beth and Abbie who
Read MoreHere we are again day 2. You can watch today’s proceedings at ScottishParliment.tv but I shall be live blogging it here. Twitter users can follow (the now restored account of) Beth who is live tweeting it. As well as Abbie Garton-Crosbie who is in the chamber with us today There are over 100 amendments grouped
Read MoreYou can watch today’s proceedings at ScottishParliment.tv but I shall be live blogging it here. There are over 100 amendments grouped into 13 groups, which is a lot. Thankfully there is a cheat sheet of good/bad amendments here If your still on Twitter Beth has a good thread. Another good thread by Abbie Gaston. 22:38
Read MoreA merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. James Cash Penney Space Karen, Elon Musk, is scared; scared of the competition. This morning I posted the following toot on Mastodon. It’s in reference to the Scottish budget, where the Green/SNP government has diverted
Read MoreIn their time in government, the … have run roughshod over Scotland’s democracy. Scottish Conservatives Today, we look forward to the time when this moment will be seen as a turning point:the day when democracy was renewed in Scotland, when we revitalised our place inthis our United Kingdom. Donald Dewar, the open of the Scottish
Read MoreArguments around free speech tend to go something like this.Pro-Free Speech: All views should be heard, and the poisonous views will be seen for what they are and dismissed.Pro censorship: If you give harmful poisonous views the oxygen of publicity they will poison the discourse. However, I’d like to point out another effect of partial
Read MorePolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao ZeDong, Lecture, 1938 Today, the completely unbiased, not at all transphobic Telegraph reported that JK Rowling has said that the “Tories have been handed an open goal” by Labour, due to their support for the GRR. And as a result, the Tories will
Read More“Their failed immigration system which is not working for British people.” Racheal Reeves As an independence supporter, especially one that’s previously a member of the Labour Party, I hear this a lot. So let’s have a quick look at what senior members of the Labour Party themselves say about marginalised groups and how they will
Read MoreEverything below the rock hard facsimiles of ‘breasts’ screams male Beringia “We can always tell”, is the scream of every transphobe from Wings Over Scotland (who happens to live nowhere near Scotland) to Graham “Someone fund my play” Linehan. Yet so blinded by hate are they, that they decided a photo of Sharron Davies was
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