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2025: The Year of the Vibe Shift
The left began the long road back to reason - at least some did.
Dec 26, 2025
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John Swinney is riding back to Bute House on the back of Nigel Farage
The nationalists are way ahead in the polls for May's Holyrood elections largely because of the irresistible rise of Reform UK
Dec 12, 2025
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It's one step forward two steps back for Peggie and sex-based rights
Her tribunal decides that a woman is defined by her"feminine" appearance not biology
Dec 10, 2025
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The Peggie Tribunal may be a theatre of the absurd but the lanyard class isn't laughing
Jul 23, 2025
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She's in the clear and the trans-addled NHS is in the dock (Free to read)
Jul 16, 2025
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He’ll Be Back
Mar 25, 2023
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The BBC: My Part In Its Downfall
Nov 13, 2025
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The tragedy of Nicola Sturgeon: she was never a Scottish Nationalist
Aug 14, 2025
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Grooming gang deniers did more damage to race relations than a thousand Tommy Robinsons
Jun 16, 2025
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Twilight of Misogyny?
Privileged female politicians can't complain about "mansplaining"
Nov 26, 2025
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Trump the Peacemaker Strikes Again
His Ukraine deal is a capitulation to Russia but unavoidable unless Europe decides to fight
Nov 23, 2025
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Arguing with AI
I asked Chat GPT to test the claims of anti-immigrant Substacker Matt Goodwin. The result was not good.
Nov 7, 2025
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The BBC: My Part In Its Downfall
It's always been run by the left but never used to let it show
Nov 13, 2025
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So what did Trump actually say at the Capitol Rally?
A dodgy edit by Panorama led to the BBC's worst crisis since the Iraq WMD dossier
Nov 10, 2025
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Why so many black faces on TV? Because there used to be so few.
Regulators and broadcasters may have overdone demographic positive discrimination and provoked a populist backlash.
Oct 28, 2025
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Orange Man Good
Trump may indeed have ended the 80-year Arab-Israeli dispute if not the Palestinian problem
Oct 12, 2025
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