Reposted by Lee MartinSeána @grantsana.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Moore Homes was citing John Hume’s cry to follow the rule of law from some speech of his, and it made me think of one of my favourite photos, John getting searched, probably post being water cannoned, in suit, socks and sandals. I just love it 78718
Reposted by Lee MartinTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 03/10/2026The UK, now under the power of the Labour Party, has become a place an entire demographic feel the need to flee due to systematic legal discrimination enforced by the state. 110639
Reposted by Lee MartinDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The same British state ruled the UK and Mauritius for 158 years, but the two territories took very different "development" paths. This was not enlightened colonial generosity. This was exploitation. Exploitation justified by the same racism that Braverman has internalised and is now regurgitating. 06017
Reposted by Lee MartinDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What Braverman says here is 100% false. Mauritius was a poor, plantation economy when the British took over from France in 1810, and they kept it that way until 1968. The economic miracle that turned it into a diverse, upper-middle income economy came after independence. bsky.app/profile/jord... 19135
Reposted by Lee MartinDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A view of national/ethnic identity predicated on intra-group unity and intergroup incommensurability is literally and inherently racist. It is also a pervasive outlook with a long history, which means that many people have internalised it. Including those it most harms. 15912
Reposted by Lee MartinDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I share Braverman's Indian-Mauritian background. And if a family member of mine ever came out with this horseshit I would tell them, "yes, you are indeed being racist against yourself, and against us. Have some self respect". 728954
Reposted by Lee MartinJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question 1302159412
Reposted by Lee MartinKay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Tons of people were assuring us just yesterday that Burnham laid out an epic and cool road map to socialism. I guess destroying the lives of a bunch of young disabled people is part of that somehow. Probably too smart for me to get it. 1417869
Reposted by Lee MartinColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I am living to see the people of NI prove this assessment wrong. The Drumcree election is coming, but people who are actively whipping up tensions might well find themselves playing to a diminishing base. V few people believed this march would ever be back on the agenda: www.ft.com/content/9297... 22711
Reposted by Lee MartinBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 01/10/2026Two by-elections today: Forth and Endrick is a rural ward that was nonetheless hard fought between SNP and Conservatives in 2022, and with no realistic chance of anyone else winning, is hard to call between those two. NOTE: This is an auto-post, I am on holiday very much not in Scotland still!ballotbox.scotBy-Election Preview: Forth and Endrick (Stirling) 1st of October 2026A potentially close contest between the Conservatives and SNP for a by-election may be more use for predicting May’s results: might Labour lose their councillor to Reform or the Greens? 1165
Reposted by Lee MartinBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 01/10/2026Two by-elections today: Wick and Caithness is going to be a Highland classic, in that it's either the Lib Dems or an Independent that will win it, but it's impossible to predict how well the latter will do. NOTE: This is an auto-post, I am on holiday very much not in Scotland still!ballotbox.scotBy-Election Preview: Wick and East Caithness (Highland) 1st of October 2026All by-elections are unique, sure, but there’s a recent pattern in much of the Highlands: if you’re betting on a party, go for the Lib Dems, but never write off an Independent. 1175
Reposted by Lee MartinLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026I get that people want hope. You think trans people don't? But we need more than visions and words. We need a governemtn determined to undo what this Labour government has done and Burnham has only carried on where Starmer left off in that regard. 215318
Reposted by Lee MartinProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 30/09/202630 September 1938. 2:00 AM. The Munich Agreement was signed. It allowed Germany to occupy the Czech Sudetenland. The Signatories were British PM Neville Chamberlain, French Premier Édouard Daladier, German Führer Adolf Hitler and Italian Duce Benito Mussolini. 088
Reposted by Lee MartinTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 30/09/2026I'll believe Burnham is a progressive when he brings forward laws to undo our historically hostile position against LGBTQ+ people, immigrants and refugees, and protesters. Until then he's just Blue Labour with better vibes. 732086
Reposted by Lee MartinLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 29/09/2026I don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted. 1342280
Reposted by Lee MartinScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 29/09/2026Climate experts are giving stark warnings about the climate emergency. It's time for the Scottish and UK governments to take action to tackle the climate crisis and cut household bills. 17824
Reposted by Lee MartinDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply. 121068394
Reposted by Lee MartinEuropean Greens @europeangreens.eu · 28/09/2026Congratulations to our French senators from @lesecologistes.fr who got reelected including @melanievogel.bsky.social who has been a strong voice for Greens in France and all over Europe. They will be a much needed voice to counter the rise of the far-right senators. We will always be louder. 0409
Reposted by Lee MartinEuropean Greens @europeangreens.eu · 28/09/2026🎉 Green wins in Lower Saxony! 🎉 Congratulations to Belit Onay who got reelected as mayor of Hannover & to Onyeka Oshionwu who got elected as mayor of Göttingen! Congratulations to the whole @gruene.de team! 24713
Reposted by Lee MartinTom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking. 27942307
Reposted by Lee MartinScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 28/09/2026What did Labour's Chancellor mention? Well... ✂️Cutting social security for vulnerable people ☢️New nuclear weapons 📈Continuous economic growth 12510
Reposted by Lee MartinScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 28/09/2026Labour Chancellor John Healey gave a keynote speech at the party's conference today in Liverpool. In his speech, he forgot to mention some important topics.... 🧵⤵️ 13618
Reposted by Lee MartinLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/09/2026The march was supposed to start ay 8, it hasn't yet, Sinn Fein seem to believe it will not be going ahead. The last time this all happened they rioted across NI for years, children died, property was torched. All because the Orange Order and their loyalist supporters won't accept 'no'. 46716
Reposted by Lee MartinMatthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026HIV cases in Fiji surge with about 1 in 60 of the population now living with the virus. Almost 4 out of 5 are NOT on HIV treatment which not only saves lives but also prevents transmission.bbc.co.ukFiji declares national emergency as HIV cases surgeOne in 60 adults in the tiny Pacific nation of less than a million people are living with the virus. 14426
Reposted by Lee MartinSimon William Cree @piratesprogress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So if we turn to the scoreboard, an illegal protest is when you stand on your own street outside your own home, but a perfectly legitimate concerns protest is when you wade out into the channel to slash some dinghy's. 062
Reposted by Lee MartinMaria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for. 6544170
Reposted by Lee MartinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026Feeling so sick about Portadown this morning and I just know most people in this country have no idea it's even happening. 3797
Reposted by Lee MartinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/09/2026Growing up, it was palpable how traumatised so many of my Irish Catholic family members were by The Troubles. The paranoia and anxiety. Makes me so angry, how little care has been shown for that trauma. 11029
Reposted by Lee MartinJosh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 27/09/2026#Onthisday in 1981: Healey narrowly defeats Tony Benn after deputy leadership challenge Healey's victory, on just 50.4% to 49.6% in the second round, had profound consequences for the future of the Labour Party Full context and story on @politics.co.uk's History Hubpolitics.co.uk1981 Labour deputy leadership election: Healey defeats Tony BennThe 1981 contest, and Tony Benn's challenge, came at a moment of crisis for the Labour Party under Michael Foot. 1153
Reposted by Lee MartinLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/09/2026Absolutely no precedent here for criminalising nationalists to enable loyalists. None at all. So who knows how it will all play out, eh. 19112
Reposted by Lee MartinLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/09/2026An illegal protest is now gathering where you live because bigots are about to march triumphantly and loudly down your streets. 111017
Reposted by Lee Martintransmetalmum.bsky.social @transmetalmum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yet Carla Lockhart MP, showed up at Drumcree when the Parades Commission determination clearly stated no supporters were to attend that area. She is not a lodge member taking part in the parade. She has also broken the law, along with the wee bin boy.. no comment about that of course. 1492
Reposted by Lee MartinAidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The first thing that opposing counsel did in the new Sandie Peggie tribunal was to point out that she said to the BBC that she had never heard of "gender critical beliefs" prior to her complaint. How, therefore, can her Union have discriminated against her based on beliefs she had never heard of? 418435
Reposted by Lee MartinDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's clear many of these cases wouldn't be happening without the seemingly unlimited funds of the anonymous donor who is determined to push transphobia into every corner of Scottish life. This looks less and less like a grassroots women's rights campaign and more and more like a personal vendetta. 314652
Reposted by Lee MartinDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026When we talk about dark money infesting our politics we generally think about Reform's Russian links, or the ADF pouring overseas cash into Christian anti-abortion and anti-LGBT lawfare. But here we see dark money in the heart of the Labour movement, quietly funding transphobia and exclusion. 213648
Reposted by Lee MartinDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today, Alison Ann-Dowling, a Scottish Labour councillor who is a member of the party's ruling body the SEC, together with fellow Scottish Labour Women's Declaration activist Norma Austin Hart, will take their trade union, Community, to court to try to overturn its trans-inclusive policy. 1013178
Reposted by Lee MartinScottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 23/09/2026Another company complicit in Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian land could be about to get a taxpayer funded contract! It's time for the SNP to finally match their words with actions, and fully implement a boycott of Israel. 27833
Reposted by Lee MartinThe Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/09/2026“To think that the right to access health and care for some people in this country is now up for debate is unthinkable.” Anthony Slaughter introduces a debate in the Senedd on the pause in gender-affirming surgeries and its impact on Wales’ trans community. 414262
Reposted by Lee MartinHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 23/09/2026At least 28 political prisoners are still being held in dreadful conditions in Bhutan. When Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay meets world leaders at the United Nations general assembly this week, they should urge him to release all remaining political prisoners.hrw.orgBhutan Should Release All Remaining Political PrisonersWhen Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay meets world leaders at the United Nations general assembly in New York this week, they should urge him to release the at least 28 political prisoners who a... 24325
Reposted by Lee MartinBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 22/09/2026New article: Local Government reform done for the wrong reasons will be a disaster There is a kernel of positivity in the Scottish Government's plans, but let's be frank: if they fully get their way, they will destroy local democracy entirely. Yes, it's that bad.ballotbox.scotLocal Government reform done for the wrong reasons will be a disasterThere is a kernel of positivity in the Scottish Government's plans, but let's be frank: if they fully get their way, they will destroy local democracy entirely. Yes, it's that bad. 23620
Reposted by Lee MartinLouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Our dependency on industries that destroy our environment has exacerbated climate change, increased the frequency of disasters, and forced the overshoot of the 1.5 degrees Celsius, proving the complete failure of our current economic models,” 02711
Reposted by Lee MartinEurope Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Germany, Infratest dimap projection: Berlin regional parliament election LINKE (LEFT): 25.3% (+13.1) CDU (EPP): 19.1% (-9.1) AfD (ESN): 16.2% (+7.1) GRÜNE (Greens/EFA): 14.5% (-3.9) SPD (S&D): 12.1% (-6.3) BSW (NI): 5.0% (+5.0) +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/germany 0218
Reposted by Lee MartinTristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 19/09/2026Slimy self-serving git continues to be slimy self-serving git. Perfect for the robbers' gallery of the British Museum, really. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comGeorge Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewing 0236
Reposted by Lee MartinBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 19/09/2026Scottish Labour leadership election result: Michael Marra (North East Scotland): 4266 (63.2%) Joe Fagan (South Scotland): 2485 (36.8%) 4176
Reposted by Lee MartinBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 18/09/2026With just weeks to go before the seat could just lie vacant until May's elections, we're unfortunately still racking up the by-elections following the death of sitting councillors. In Dumfries and Galloway, Annandale East and Eskdale Labour councillor, Archie Dryburgh, has sadly just passed.dumfriesandgalloway.gov.ukCouncil Pays Tribute to Councillor Archie Dryburgh MBE | Dumfries and Galloway CouncilDumfries and Galloway Council is deeply saddened by the death of Councillor Archie Dryburgh MBE, a much-respected colleague who devoted many years of his life to public service and to the communities ... 093
Reposted by Lee Martinarchivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026R.I.P. Stephanie Cole. Seen here as Muriel Carpenter in Talking Heads - Soldering On by Alan Bennett (10th May 1988) 1120050
Reposted by Lee MartinBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 18/09/2026Avondale and Stonehouse (South Lanarkshire) by-election transfers, votes at final head-to-head stage (vs same party matchup in 2022): SNP: 1349 (36.3%, +4.4) Labour: 1198 (32.3%, -2.6) Didn't Transfer: 1165 (31.4%, -1.8) 1162
Reposted by Lee MartinBallot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 18/09/2026Avondale and Stonehouse (S. Lan) BE, 1st prefs (vs 2022): SNP: 1025 (27.6%, -0.8) LAB: 743 (20%, +0.2) RUK: 727 (19.6%, new) CON: 393 (10.6%, -10) LD: 357 (9.6%, new) GRN: 303 (8.2%, +1.8) IND: 107 (2.9%, new) Your: 45 (1.2%, new) ADF: 12 (0.3%, new) (Non-returns 24.8%) SNP elected stage 9. 54410
Reposted by Lee MartinJosh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...heraldscotland.comNinety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shapeAccording to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language. 17111150