Fraser McMillan 🌐

Lecturer in Scottish Electoral Politics @EdinburghPIR 🗳️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Dandies 🔴⚪ | Abundance bro 🏗️

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

best weekend of my life hands down

this is what it fucking means ♥️🐑

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

We see here an example of what @jo3hill calls 'everythingism' or @ezraklein 'everything-bagel liberalism' – nice-sounding obligations have been piled on housebuilders until the accumulated weight has crushed the sector, resulting in rising homelessness and housing poverty.

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

walk past their office almost every day and 99% of the time the only thing you see is neckbeards vaping in company merch

[GTA 6 Countdown ⏳ @GTAVI_Countdown]

According to a group of GTA 6 YouTubers who were questioned by the police after going inside Rockstar North’s office:

- A police vehicle with the sirens passes in front of the building every 20-30 minutes
- Senior employees were seen leaving the studio in taxis accompanied by police escort
- The building is monitored by 50-60 security cameras
- There’s a security team of 3-4 is in the main lobby 24/7
- The studio is being protected under a special police program implemented at the request of the Scottish government

(Source: https://t.co/7hae25ohPr)

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Himbo President 🇵🇸 @himbopresident]

American eurosnob soccer fandom is so funny to me, it's just picking one of the five teams that has a chance of winning the UCL and then pretending you have a deep emotional connection to them because you endured the dark days of them only finishing fifth domestically

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

@AaronBastani spot the arsenal top 😭

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Great piece here. What’s happening in Soho is repeated across the country, bringing together many of Britain’s economic problems. Burdensome planning/licensing regimes, an ageing society with too much power placed with asset/time rich and presumption in favour of no.

[joe @spinningjoe]

so we're gonna be making some paughsta today, first of all grab two "cups" of "heavy cream",

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

@robertflorence First Light is class, folk just whingeing about AAAness in general at this point

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

"inflation" at the 2024 US Presidential election was not really about the rate of inflation but prices having already risen

the 2029 GE will be a test of whether public concern is about the level of inward migration per se or "immigration" i.e. existing demographic change

[max tempers @maxtempers]

This actually *beats* the Bowes projections, which I posted earlier, that many seemed sceptical of. We are on track for three years of negative net migration in the run up to the 2029 GE.

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

forgot to post this, more from me on the Reform breakthrough at Holyrood in the superb Scottish election analysis report

https://t.co/NHeoj2kw5g

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

@consumerofmonch @Dykeocletian the debate would be a lot easier if left nimbys admitted that their moral objection to financial profit in any aspect of housing policy outweighs their desire to lower costs and increase availability

but instead they have to pretend that undeniable empirical facts are false

[Liam Rutherford 🌐🗽🍸 ☭⃠ @RealLiamR1]

The Gavin Newsom 2028 campaign:

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

@quantian1 is it "one of those 7s"?

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

@ewangibbs elder Millennial/Gen X commentariat moral panic, there obviously is a gender divide but age dwarfs it

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

so you're telling me the sun makes your hair lighter but your skin darker

[🇨🇭🏔 Hagaz 🏔🇨🇭 - Emperor of the Alps @HagazagaH]

Homo Erectus reconstruction:
In winter / In summer

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

decision for the Greens to make here, if they go for it in Makerfield they'll hand it to Reform and stop Burnham becoming PM - but their best chance of getting into govt is prob a lib-left majority hung parly in 29 and there's at least a chance of that with AB as Labour leader

[Daisy Eastlake @daisyeastlake]

Green source tells me they are "eyeing up an opportunity" in Makerfield, despite the seat being strong territory for Reform & their party never having performed well in the area

"What we do know is how to take by-elections seriously and win... we haven't campaigned hard there before, just like Gorton & Denton where we were a distant third before the last by-election. While we know Reform are good at hoovering up Conservative votes, Greens can see the reservoir of disgruntled Labour supporters, many of whom would never vote Reform but need somewhere to go."

But in the Gorton & Denton by-election, Greens I spoke to told me that it would have been a much harder battle had Andy Burnham been allowed to stand - so the chances of success could still be slim

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

@WomenOScotland @pangram ai?

[Fraser McMillan 🌐 @frasmcm]

@mrjamesmack @KennyFarq yeah I don't think it would ever happen but that's why a grassroots/member-led model places an inherent constraint on any party's ability to appeal to the average voter

the last three places I've stayed are Shawlands, Hillhead and Leith - very specific cultural bubble

[bread and poses @breadandposes]

The Scottish Greens delivered a strategic and tactical masterclass for the specific election they were running in.