George Robertson

Part of the Scottish diaspora. Slowly sliding into retirement.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Wow

[George Robertson @Grobbyson]

@BurnsideWasTosh My mother once invited a plumber into the house.
To this day I have nightmares.

[latsot @latsot]

Why do people do this? Why is this person so intent on my knowing that he has not heard of a particular children's TV presenter? HOW AND WHY does he imagine I care?

I asked him to supply me with a list of all the other people he hasn't heard of.

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Shabana Mahmood Called George Floyd's Death An Unspeakable Outrage. She Called Henry Nowak's A Political Grandstanding Opportunity.

On June 4th 2020, four days after George Floyd died in Minneapolis, Shabana Mahmood wrote to her constituents. She described his death as an unspeakable outrage. She shared the anger of the Black Lives Matter movement. She condemned Donald Trump in the strongest possible terms. She pledged to ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She signed it with a Black Lives Matter hashtag.

This week Shabana Mahmood stood at the despatch box and told the House of Commons there must be no two tier policing. She said the police have a sacred duty to act without fear or favour. She warned that anyone using Henry Nowak's murder to stoke division should be rejected.

Henry Nowak died on December 3rd 2025. Mahmood said nothing for days. The Commons Speaker had to order the government to make a statement. When she finally spoke she described the national outcry as political grandstanding and accused those naming the problem of stoking division.

Four days after George Floyd died she had already written to her constituents. Four days after Henry Nowak's killer was convicted she had to be ordered to speak by the Speaker of the House.

The letter she wrote in 2020 is worth reading carefully because it is the most precise document available for understanding what happened this week. She writes that her work deeply reflects the cause for social and racial justice. She writes that she will carry on working to ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She writes that she wants her work to continue to be reflective of black and ethnic minority experiences in Birmingham.

Not all voices. Black voices. Not all experiences. Black and ethnic minority experiences. That is the Home Secretary who told Parliament this week there must be no two tier policing. Her own letter is a precise description of two tier political engagement. One standard applied to George Floyd. A different standard applied to Henry Nowak.

The progressive institutional machinery was operational within hours of Floyd's death. The hashtag was ready. The language was ready. The political network was ready. Mahmood's letter was part of that machinery. It was produced within four days because the machinery runs automatically when the case fits the framework. Black Lives Matter had been founded in 2013. By 2020 it had dozens of local chapters, a global network, corporate donors worth hundreds of millions of dollars and political allies embedded across every major Western government. When Floyd died every node of that network activated simultaneously. Mahmood's letter was one activation among millions.

Henry Nowak's case does not fit the framework. His killer used the progressive framework as the murder weapon. His case does not vindicate the ideology of anti-racism training. It exposes it. And the Home Secretary whose entire political career has been built around that ideology found herself at the despatch box this week condemning its most visible consequence while declining to name its cause.

She wrote in 2020 that she would ensure Black voices are heard at the heart of our democracy. She has kept that promise. The question Henry Nowak's family is entitled to ask is which voices were heard at the heart of the institutions that trained the officers who handcuffed their son. The Hampshire Race Action Plan. The NPCC guidance. The College of Policing practice bank. The Metropolitan Police neutrality myth. All of it built by the same political framework Mahmood has spent her career advancing.

There must be no two tier policing. She is right. The letter she wrote in 2020 explains precisely why there is.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

@StephenMorganMP You’re literally proposing legislation to criminalise talking therapy.

That therapy is crucial for the 80-90% same sex attracted cohort that appear at gender clinics.

You are, ironically, proposing a conversion therapy measure by which homosexual teens impersonate straights

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Good news. My patriotic friend @LordWeirDUP won the Private Members’ Bill ballot, and has just introduced a Bill to prohibit any change in the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands without the consent of both Parliament and the Chagossian people.
We are going to win this thing.
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[David Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sausageandeggx]

They broke his bones, gouged his eyes out, cut out his tongue and castrated him. He died of a heart attack after being set on fire and dragged himself 50 meters across the floor.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Hampstead Heath ponds hold a special place in the hearts of many precisely because they offered single sex provision.

With a women’s pond, a men’s pond and a mixed pond absolutely nobody was excluded.

A pond labelled women’s pond should be available to women only. That is both the law and common sense.

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

Huge if true.

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

I am sure your views are shared by the vast majority of British people. Just inexplicable why a Labour Government thought ignoring Chagossians views was acceptable especially when it was a Labour Gov who cruelly tore them from their homes in the 1960s

[Intel Lady @intel_lady]

This week, the Green Party candidate for the Makerfield By-election went on Question Time & took Reform UK's Robert Kenyon to task on his misogynistic comments about Carol Vorderman. Because there's nothing the Green Party hates more than misogyny!

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

And you will be sued. And women will win.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

THIS IS SPECTACULAR

First he gets Lammy to admit he wouldn’t bend the knee for Henry Nowak, and also has him inadvertently admitting the George Floyd stuff was just shallow gesturing. Glorious👏

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

If you want to pretend that men who wank over pornified stereotypes of ‘woman’ are women that’s fine, but then you have to accept that makes you a sexist, a homophobe & a moron.

[spiked @spikedonline]

‘Young women are the biggest cheerleaders for trans ideology – and we’re also at the sharp end of it. It is an entirely self-destructive trend.’

@MaeveHalligan on why young women are so likely to be trans ‘allies’:

[Women Won’t Wheesht @WWWheesht]

We have sent an FOI request to all 32 local authorities in Scotland to request details of their school toilet provisions to ensure they are all compliant with their legal obligations.

We'll keep you informed.

[George Robertson @Grobbyson]

@OldRoberts953 Harry wanted to be a green councillor. Unfortunately, for him, all the voters thought he was a parody candidate.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The EHRC code of practice doesn’t apply to workplaces.

But that hasn’t stopped Unison just misinforming its members and saying that it does.

Unions have been at the forefront of this assault on women’s and gay/lesbian rights and show no signs of changing on this.

[Cllr Todd Ferguson @ToddFergusonNAA]

John Swinney in 2001 on Henry McLeish £9,000 expenses scandal:

"You have got to be able to trust the First Minister."

Once it escalated to £36k+ Swinney said:

"People around Scotland will be staggered by the amount of money that is involved.

For the good of the Scottish parliament as a whole and the office of first minister, Mr McLeish should now resign his position."

John Swinney in 2026 on the SNP's £660,000 fundraising scandal:

"Nothing to see here, folks."