Just one flag ceremony makes me stop and reflect. Sunset.
It can be done by a few people, as in the clip, or elaborated to suit any audience. I once saw it performed for the Federation of Small Business at the former Royal Yacht Britannia, complete with RM Band.
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(cartoon Steve Sack)
Lamppost flags are meant to be intimidating. They are like dogs marking territory.
Scottish Greens will deliver Free Bus Travel for Everyone. Vote Scottish Greens on 7 May.
Public transport should be for the people, not for profit.
Scottish Greens will bring our buses back into public ownership and make them free for all. 🚌
#VoteScottishGreens
From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:
It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.
We must protect jury trials.
Trump cuts food programs that feed hungry American kids — to pay for bombs that kill hungry Iranian kids.
It was a US strike that killed 165 schoolgirls. Mostly aged 7-12.
While it was likely unintentional, the decision to strike a military target in a densely populated civilian area was not.
Yes, difficult decisions have to be made in war.
I don’t trust this bloodthirsty regime to make good ones.
As this war gets messier and messier, it will become more unpopular.
An independent Scotland should ditch the 'special relationship' and be a voice for peace
You have to know what you are doing to kill children in an illegal war
Ah, the poor poor sweet innocent oil industry. Butter wouldn't melt in its mouth.
🛢️ U.S fossil fuel industry funded Trump.
🇻🇪 Trump overthrew the Venezuelan gov’t to exploit world’s largest oil reserves.
💣 Trump starts war, choking off Middle East oil and gas supply.
💰 Oil hits $100+ a barrel.
📈 U.S fuel companies make billions.
💸 Follow the money.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the first group of Ukrainian military experts will depart for the Middle East on Monday, to share experience gained during four years of war with Russia.
Three members sitting at a table draped with a Green Yes banner.
Green Yessers!
🏴 Let’s get there you wonderful YESsers !!
Let’s see 150,000 once again 💪
🏴🇪🇺😎
Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas vs LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis
Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive
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Wonder if such vicious slander will be condemned by the establishment the same way as it is when it's one of their own. Won't hold my breath. Britain is rotten to the core
As a trans woman, I walk the streets fearing everyone I pass because of the threats this government has unleashed on us. But I'm just as appalled at the disgraceful treatment of Mothin, of Hannah, and of the Green Party. It's incitement, pure and simple. A match tossed on gasoline.
Solidarity.
The reason that the far right harass Green MPs and not Labour MPs is that the Greens actually represent a threat to them.
Full solidarity with Hannah Spencer, this is absolutely disgraceful behaviour.
This is a direct attack on our democracy, Hannah is an elected MP that has the right to walk free in the city she represents without these extremists behaving like thugs
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
The U.S is the largest oil and gas producer in the world.
They overthrew the Venezuelan gov’t to exploit the world’s largest oil reserves.
Then they started a war, constraining Middle Eastern oil and gas supply.
Oil hits $100+ a barrel.
Who gains? America.
Follow the money.
The Government has tabled an amendment in lieu that would grant Ministers the power to introduce restrictions on children’s use of internet services, following its ongoing consultation on children’s wellbeing. This would give the Government a significant delegated power to legislate in this area, despite the Bill containing very little policy detail explaining how it would work. In practice, the power would allow Ministers to require providers of internet services to impose restrictions on any “specified internet service” for children under a “specified age”. This could extend far beyond social media. In theory, it would allow restrictions on any designated website or category of websites, as well as services such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) or AI tools. The amendment provides no detail about the types of restrictions that could be imposed. Restrictions would ultimately be decided by Ministers and implemented through a Statutory Instrument. This would mean that Parliament could not amend the Minster’s decision. Scrutiny would be limited to a short debate followed by a vote to either approve or reject the measure. The proposed provision therefore embodies two undesirable legislative practices. First, it introduces an extensive new power at the final stage of the Bill’s parliamentary passage, when opportunities for debate and amendment are already constrained. Secondly, when Ministers come to exercise that power, the resulting Statutory Instrument would itself be subject to limited scrutiny and could not be amended by Parliament.
Good summary from @hansardsociety.bsky.social on how today's ~the children~ Commons debate on a social media ban for <16s is, regardless of your opinion on the issue, very bad lawmaking and government, rehashing (as I've said) bad ideas which were smacked out of the OSA years ago for a reason.
What I think we’ve learned since Labour came to power is that their ability to be extraordinarily appalling in their behaviour knows no bounds. The thought of this makes me want to gag.
The anti trans men who chased Hannah Spencer, this is exactly who these men are. Misogynists who just love an excuse to hound women for not doing what they tell us. All male terfs act like that. And the women are just as vicious www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Same street as in the earlier post, houses both side of the road, a few parked cars, and virtually no traffic driving through. It's very misty!
Same street about an hour later... (Still a bit of a rat run but much, much less traffic off-peak)
A queue of traffic along a narrow residential street disappears into the distance.
The heavy traffic cannot sensibly negotiate the various traffic calming features which were put in to control traffic speeds and to try to discourage motorists from using the route as a rat run...it's not working!
Another day, another entirely unsuitable residential back street being used as a rat run...
Labour do seem to believe that a Divine Wind will save them.
That didn't work for the Kamikazies and will not work for Labour.
Glasgow Central station remains closed after major fire and building collapse www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
