Here’s Why Democrats Need To Get A Spine: Amanda Seales & Francesca Fiorentini on Trump’s Win

Following the results of the 2024 US presidential election, Mehdi Hasan is joined by comedians Amanda Seales and Francesca Fiorentini for a post-post-mortem on Democrats’ historic defeat. They discuss the Harris campaign’s many mistakes, from cozying up to Republican neocons, to abandoning Bernie Sanders-style populism, to inexplicably hiding their only cool person, Tim Walz. Source

Devolution: can it serve more than Unionism alone?

On the matter of representation in Holyrood and Westminster, there is a very silly argument being exploited for extraneous and irrelevant purposes (other political agendas), leading to self-defeating division in the SNP, about Stephen Flynn’s desire to stand for election in both Westminster and Holyrood. Stephen Flynn is quite right to stand for both Parliaments, […] Source

The X-odus to BlueSky: a dug in a blue sky

Last week the Guardian newspaper announced that it would no longer be posting on Twitter. I refuse to call it X. You tweet on Twitter – what do you do on X? You excrete of course, and since the platform was taken over by the world’s biggest attention seeker Elon Musk,…