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A place for open debate about progressive politics in Scotland. www.labourhame.com

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"We are not the party of Donald Dewar and Wendy Alexander any more... We have long-since become a party of permanently grumpy opposition, which follows public opinion rather than leading it, which cowers under attack rather than holding its head high, which fears the mob instead of facing it down."

Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall writes to the new Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra about the desperate need to change the party’s direction of travel. Dear Michael, Congratulations o…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 20/09/2026

New on @labourhame.com: Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social writes to the new Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra about the desperate need to change the party’s direction of travel.

Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall writes to the new Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra about the desperate need to change the party’s direction of travel. Dear Michael, Congratulations o…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 28/08/2026

New on @labourhame.com: Martin Hutchison analyses Scottish Labour’s May 2026 election defeat, concluding that it reflected the durability of the Yes coalition, the rise of Reform, weaknesses in UK Labour’s record, a fundamentally mistaken Scottish Labour campaign strategy and a spectacular own goal.

Martin Hutchison analyses Scottish Labour’s May 2026 election defeat, concluding that it reflected the durability of the Yes coalition, the return of former Labour voters to the SNP, the rise…

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Over the next month, Marra and Fagan will compete to become the next leader of Scottish Labour, setting out their solutions to what they see as the problems facing the party in the wake of its fifth consecutive election defeat. Unfortunately, they are answering largely the wrong questions."

Moving the dial on the constitution

James Gray, Political Education Officer of Edinburgh Southern CLP, says the candidates for leadership of the party need to grasp the nettle of the constitution if Scottish Labour is to have any hop…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 21/08/2026

New on @labourhame.com: James Gray, Political Education Officer of Edinburgh Southern CLP, says the candidates for leadership of the party need to grasp the nettle of the constitution if Scottish Labour is to have any hope of broadening its appeal.

Moving the dial on the constitution

James Gray, Political Education Officer of Edinburgh Southern CLP, says the candidates for leadership of the party need to grasp the nettle of the constitution if Scottish Labour is to have any hop…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 17/08/2026

"And as its vote and its power diminished, so too did its conception of its own purpose. Every election defeat was followed by the promise of change, but the only change that ever seemed to come was an increase in disdain from a voting public which simply couldn’t understand what the party was for."

As nominations close in the Scottish Labour leadership election, Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall finds a party that has so lost its sense of moral purpose that it only feels able to offer its …

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 17/08/2026

Please link to where he said it. I think you're lying.

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 17/08/2026

When did he say that? What is your evidence that he said that? I don't think he said that.

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 17/08/2026

New on @labourhame.com: As nominations close in the Scottish Labour leadership election, Labour Hame editor @dhothersall.bsky.social finds a party that has so lost its sense of moral purpose that it only feels able to offer its members a choice between so what and who cares.

As nominations close in the Scottish Labour leadership election, Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall finds a party that has so lost its sense of moral purpose that it only feels able to offer its …

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Labour is in government. It has the opportunity, and frankly the moral imperative, to take the lead here. It should announce an orderly departure from X, with a clear timetable, and alternative sources of information for those who have relied on the Nazi child abuse platform until now.

Labour needs to get off X. Now.

Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall, a former Twitter addict, says that while he completely understands the motivation of staying on a platform where vital communities of support and engagement ha…

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Heather Clark @heatherjc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I hope this reaches our politicians. I've written to my MP, Edinburgh Council and plan to contact MSPs and more institutions today.

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 07/01/2026

New on @labourhame.com: Labour Hame editor @dhothersall.bsky.social, a former Twitter addict, says that while he understands the motivation of staying on a platform where vital communities of support and engagement have been built and prospered, it is now morally unjustifiable to remain on X.

Labour needs to get off X. Now.

Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall, a former Twitter addict, says that while he completely understands the motivation of staying on a platform where vital communities of support and engagement ha…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 13/09/2025

Interesting email arrived this morning. I checked - there are precisely TWO mentions of Peter Mandelson on Labour Hame, and BOTH of them are criticisms!

A screenshot of an email to info@labourhame.com. The email subject is "Perhaps" and the message is:

Perhaps you should delete all the glowing references to Lord Mandelson on your blog.
Or are you campaigning for Reform now?

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"I do think most members appreciate that while our common cause stems from shared principles, government requires pragmatism. But pragmatism has to deliver, otherwise it starts to appear simply to be the absence of principles." Me for @labourhame.com today. www.labourhame.com/dr-jekyll-an...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hiding-to-nothing

Duncan Hothersall, Editor of Labour Hame, speculates about a saboteur hiding in the heart of government, and perceives the patience of Labour members wearing thin. I was on the radio yesterday, as …

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 18/07/2025

New on @labourhame.com: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hiding-to-nothing Duncan Hothersall, Editor of Labour Hame, speculates about a saboteur hiding in the heart of government, and perceives the patience of Labour members wearing thin. www.labourhame.com/dr-jekyll-an...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hiding-to-nothing

Duncan Hothersall, Editor of Labour Hame, speculates about a saboteur hiding in the heart of government, and perceives the patience of Labour members wearing thin. I was on the radio yesterday, as …

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 26/04/2025

New on @labourhame.com: Stuart Clark is standing to be Labour’s candidate in Renfrewshire North and Cardonald in the 2026 Scottish election. www.labourhame.com/time-to-put-...

Time to put Scotland’s interests first

Stuart Clark is standing to be Labour’s candidate in Renfrewshire North and Cardonald in the 2026 Scottish election. Scotland needs a new direction. After nearly two decades of SNP misrule, S…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 18/04/2025

In fact I think @hoski67.bsky.social has also written about that. Worth checking our archive page under his name.

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wickedhighlander.bsky.social @wickedhighlander.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Pretty good article with evidence. Have you also thought that yes/no questions (which the electoral commission said are biased against no) are unlikely to be used again and neutral questions produce a much bigger majority to the pro UK side?

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 18/04/2025

New on @labourhame.com: Robert Hoskins of Glasgow South CLP (@hoski67.bsky.social) examines recent polling and widespread claims about the demographic inevitability of Scottish independence. He is ... unconvinced! www.labourhame.com/is-independe...

Is independence inevitable?

Robert Hoskins of Glasgow South CLP examines recent polling and widespread claims about the demographic inevitability of Scottish independence. He is unconvinced. One could be forgiven for thinking…

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Me for @labourhame.com on Friday at #ScotLab25: Anas Sarwar told a credible story in his speech today, but it was undermined by a baffling, dangerous segue into populism and an embrace of moral panic politics which is unlikely to help his prospects of becoming FM. www.labourhame.com/a-new-direct...

A new direction?

Anas Sarwar spoke for 52 minutes today at Scottish Labour Conference in Glasgow, to a gathering of supporters who seemed at times unsure whether their rapture was entirely appropriate given the loo…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 21/02/2025

New on @labourhame.com: @dhothersall.bsky.social reviews Anas Sarwar's speech to Scottish Labour conference today in Glasgow. www.labourhame.com/a-new-direct...

A new direction?

Anas Sarwar spoke for 52 minutes today at Scottish Labour Conference in Glasgow, to a gathering of supporters who seemed at times unsure whether their rapture was entirely appropriate given the loo…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 18/02/2025

Labour Hame is a blog, and you should really learn to read.

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Blair McDougall MP @blairmcdougall.com · 15/02/2025

Righteous anger here from Jack McConnell on how the SNP have squandered the early promise of devolution. But there's also a challenge to us all here to reinvigorate Scottish politics. Worth a read: www.thetimes.com/article/8231...

Scotland has been weakened: here’s how to fix it

As Holyrood elections approach, the former first minister warns of a depleted nation and urges politicians to be fearless

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Trump's USAID freeze is about to make $500 million in food aid go bad. Someone blew the whistle, so Trump fired them. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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USAID inspector fired after revealing nearly $500m in food aid was about to spoil

Report from inspector general’s office criticized Trump administration’s attempt to drastically cut USAID

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Amid a catastrophic housing and homelessness crisis—with seven evictions filed every minute and rent now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. tenants—what was Scott Turner’s first act as HUD Secretary? To make it easier for federally funded shelters to turn trans people away.

Headline reading: "Scott Turner Is Ordering the Housing Department to Limit Transgender People's Access to Shelters" — The Department of Housing and Urban Development's directive to stop enforcing its Equal Access Rule would limit transgender people's ability to access housing programs and shelters.

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 08/02/2025

www.labourhame.com/lifting-scot...

The SNP has hoarded power in Edinburgh and then governed through a series of bodies dependent on £6.6 billion of public money, meaning the buck never has to stop with them. And it has meant that this quango class – many of whom are fantastically able and public spirited – operate at one step removed from either communities or the elected representatives who serve them.

All of which means our public services have remained essentially unreformed for years, without the driving imperative that comes from knowing you are answerable to parents, to patients and to passengers.

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 25/11/2024

Bluesky Scottish Labour folk - please say if you want to be added to this starter pack, or if there is anybody obviously missing. It's getting quite hard to keep up with who has joined! Thanks! go.bsky.app/xzvrgG

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 07/02/2025

New on Labour Hame: Kirsty McNeill, the Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP for Midlothian and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, sets out four major challenges facing Scotland after two decades of nationalist government, and how we can address them.

Lifting Scotland

Kirsty McNeill, the Scottish Labour and Co-operative MP for Midlothian and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, sets out four major challenges facing Scotland after two decades …

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 15/12/2024

Sincere apologies for the delay! Added now. 👍

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 29/11/2024

"Labour is just like the Tories" exhibit #43096.

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 29/11/2024

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 26/11/2024

Martin (@martinwhitfieldmsp.bsky.social) has just been added.

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 26/11/2024

You're already there! 🙂

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 25/11/2024

Bluesky Scottish Labour folk - please say if you want to be added to this starter pack, or if there is anybody obviously missing. It's getting quite hard to keep up with who has joined! Thanks! go.bsky.app/xzvrgG

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Ian Murray @ianmurraymp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I remember campaigning with John in the Inch in my constituency. We came across a 50th party in a garden. He walked straight in and was soon holding court, telling anecdotes but also getting our message across. A brilliant man. Condolences to his family and friends. Rest in peace.

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 21/11/2024

As Stephen Flynn falters in his climb to the top, one from the vaults by @dhothersall.bsky.social about the journey the SNP has been on, and how perilous that climb is now that they are, in the words of a commenter, "entirely a party of gesture and pretence". www.labourhame.com/john-mason-a...

John Mason and the SNP’s curious morality test

The SNP’s suspension of John Mason isn’t really about the latest offensive thing that the MSP for Glasgow Shettleston has written on Twitter, it’s about where the SNP finds itself…

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🔴The 'Two Tier' Journalism Exposed by the Farmers Protests The glowing coverage handed to the hugely wealthy figures protesting against inheritance tax reforms has shown clearer than ever before who really has a voice in the British media and who doesn't www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-two-ti...

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The 'Two Tier' Journalism Exposed by the Farmers Protests

The glowing coverage handed to the hugely wealthy people leading the campaign against inheritance tax reforms shows who has a voice in the media and who doesn't

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Cat Headley @catheadley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This from @kennyfarq.bsky.social on Stephen Flynn’s “inelegant” (in the words of a former WM SNP colleague) manoeuvres towards his thinly veiled ambition of being SNP party leader at Holyrood does not miss. (Behind a paywall,sorry) www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Arrogant Stephen Flynn must build bridges if he is to be SNP leader

The party’s Westminster leader announced his bid to sit in the Commons and Holyrood in a high-handed way that revealed much about his future ambitions

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 19/11/2024

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 19/11/2024

There are almost certainly lots of accounts missing from this which should be there. Please do shout if you want to be added or if you know of folk who should be. go.bsky.app/xzvrgG

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 19/11/2024

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 19/11/2024

And back in September, marking ten years since #indyref, Labour Hame editor @dhothersall.bsky.social reflected on a success that we failed to celebrate, a decade of constitutional doldrums, and an opportunity to finally move on. www.labourhame.com/ten-wasted-y...

Ten wasted years – and an opportunity

Ten years on from the independence referendum, Labour Hame editor Duncan Hothersall reflects on a success that we failed to celebrate, a decade of constitutional doldrums, and an opportunity to fin…

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 19/11/2024

This month @johnrerskine.bsky.social welcomed the UK Labour budget and especially its impact on the Highlands and Islands. Despite the desperate PR of the SNP, this was the largest funding package for the Scottish Parliament in the history of devolution. www.labourhame.com/a-budget-for...

A budget for the Highlands and Islands, and for Scotland

John Erskine, a former Scottish Labour candidate for the Highlands and Islands and a former Scottish Labour spokesperson for Transport, Connectivity and the Islands, welcomes the first UK Labour bu…

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 19/11/2024

Last month Nick Hopkins gave his fierce and frustrated response to the move to means test the winter fuel payment. Labour Hame is definitely not just a place for agreeing with Labour policy... www.labourhame.com/broken/

Nick Hopkins, a long-time Labour member and specialist in work on poverty, welfare reform and financial inclusion, sets out his anger and frustration at the UK Labour government’s decisions o…

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 19/11/2024

Thought it might be a good idea to post here some recent articles from labourhame.com to give new followers an idea of what we do. We're always open to new submissions, check out the "Contribute" tab on the website...

A place for open debate about progressive politics in Scotland

LabourHame @labourhame.com · 19/11/2024

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 18/11/2024

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Done! Welcome!

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 18/11/2024

Already there! 👍

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LabourHame @labourhame.com · 18/11/2024

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