Defiantly Alice

Alice - 20s - she/her. Northerner in Scotland, software dev. Big fan of worldbuilding and cars going fast.

[Karl Hansen @karl_fh]

Mark Nowak has shown remarkable dignity in the face of unimaginable loss, refusing to let his son’s murder be used to fuel hatred or division.

Contrast that with the grubby politicians trying to profit from Henry’s death despite his family’s explicit pleas.

[GreyscaleSky 🩷💜💙 @AGreyscale]

sorry do terfs think there's meant to be a man blocking forcefield around the lingerie section. do men that step too close get vaporized. are men not allowed to buy their partners gifts or their kids underpants. is this where we are now

[McLovin 🦁💭 @BionicSparkle6]

.@AmnestyUK has identified 51 anti trans organisations in the UK in 2026
Only 3 existed in 2017

4 major newspapers published 17K articles about "trans issues" between 2020 and 2025
an average of 9 articles every day https://t.co/yzvW8vqUDa

[James Walker @James_L_Walker]

EXC: FOI emails reveal the Electoral Commission’s former CEO raised concerns that far-right party Independent Green Voice’s branding may have been designed to confuse voters into mistaking it for the Scottish Greens.

Senior staff pushed back👇

https://t.co/t67dmohRKA

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

Lucy Powell was one of the many shadow cabinet ministers who resigned in an attempt to force Corbyn out and replace him with Owen Smith after the Brexit vote. He hadn't even lost an election, and followed it up by *gaining* seats in the next one!

[Sophia Sleigh @SophiaSleigh]

Labour Deputy Leader Lucy Powell tells R4:

“I don’t want to see a leadership challenge. That’s not how we operate.

“We don’t do hostile takeovers in the Labour Party.”

[Normal Island News @NormalIslandNws]

Personally, I make a point of always listening carefully to what the prime minister has to say. For example, when he said: "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave," I took that on board and voted Green ❤️

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@d78930305 @MarxianAngel Oh, you're referring to the electoral college for the presidency? Yes, I can agree there, I struggle to see world where a third party candidate wins the presidency while the electoral college exists (or indeed at all, when there's only a single 'seat' to win).

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@d78930305 @MarxianAngel 'a system of winner take all multi-member constituencies'

I mean, that's what quite a lot of yesterday's council elections were. Plurality block voting - 3 councillors per ward, top 3 vote counts win, everyone voted on party lines so winning party takes all nearly every time.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Last night, we were told the Greens were underperforming.

Wrong!

The BBC gives the Greens a projected share of 18% - narrowly making them second.

That means they are outperforming their average polling!

And that's despite younger voters being less likely to vote in locals

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

'Alice, isn't Washington closer to Sunderland?'

We don't talk about Sunderland

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

Newcastle, my love, my life, my hometown, saving at least a corner of the northeast from the scourge of Reform.

[Daniel Holland @danhollandnews]

Newcastle City Council results so far (5 of 26 wards declared):
Green 11
Reform UK 3
Lib Dem 1

Long way to go, but this is looking like a very good day for the Greens.

[a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms]

you can basically disregard any commentator who doesn’t understand the below

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[Tom Mills @ta_mills]

This is where you need a political sociology as well as psephology. The faction that controls Labour will not, cannot, process this or respond because its entire project is based on the party tacking right in alliance with key parts of the media system.

[James Roberts @jroberts332]

This encapsulates how the media responds to left vs right wing figures. Polanski questions police aggression? Howling outrage, condemnation, cries of antisemitism. Reform say we’ll build concentration camps in your back garden if you vote Green? Proof that “the party is evolving”

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@breadandposes Just said much the same thing - Putin is obviously worse for the former soviet nations he has designs on, but he hasn't started a war that has directly hurt British people by launching fuel prices into the stratosphere. If the question is who is worse *for us*, there's the answer

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

And for the world in general - the US armed forces are massively, *massively* more powerful than Russia's. An insane Trump is much more capable of attacking countries, both allied or otherwise, than the absurd idea some float that Russia could somehow make it to British shores.

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

I mean...

Putin is obviously a worse threat to the countries on Russia's borders, but as a threat to the UK & the world in general?

Yeah, the people of the UK are objectively suffering more because of Trump's actions in Iran than Putin's in Ukraine. We just like Ukraine more.

[LBC @LBC]

'That's just nonsense, isn't it?'

@Lewis_Goodall puts Zack Polanski’s comparison of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as threats to the UK to former Green leader Natalie Bennett.

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@jackblackwell @Jaybaba_ This idea that the UK is mass importing perpetual benefit claimants is just a completely unfounded assertion. At *worst*, you can say we have too large an asylum backlog, which costs the government, but regular immigration has a small net effect, leaning positive.

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@jackblackwell @Jaybaba_ Average immigrant costs less to the state than the average citizen, not least because they spend years with no recourse to public funds, paying NHS surcharge. Less likely to be on welfare than native citizens. Overall impact tends to be roughly balanced.