There’s only one word to describe what the Tories are doing to this country: evil heraldscotland.com/opinion/228198… For 12 years the Tories have tortured the poor, first with austerity which they said was to bring down the deficit, now with Truss’s plan to throw gold at the rich based on huge deficit-busting borrowing which the poor will pay for. It’s sadism in action heraldscotland.com/opinion/228198…

As an exercise in professional masochism, I spent today going through the comment sections of the UK's main media outlets. They're universally appalling hives of far right conspiracy theory disinformation. Surely proprietors and senior execs know this damages their brands? Nearly all the stuff in comment sections wouldn't get into any newspaper letters page or be aired by any broadcaster as they meet no standard of accuracy, and often foment outright hate. There should me much more robust monitoring across the entire media industry on comment posts

Parents are starving themselves to feed their kids: a portrait of Dickensian poverty on our doorstep

Mothers eating leftovers and losing so much weight their clothes don’t fit, children bullied for filthy uniforms, parents so shamed they consider suicide heraldscotland.com/politics/22162… Poverty campaigners reveal the full horror of what’s happening to our poorest families and say that while the SNP Government far exceeds Westminster when it comes to protecting the vulnerable, so much more must be done with the powers the Scottish government already has

Hunger is not a royalist, so why are food banks closing for the funeral of the Queen?

It says something very dark about a nation that food banks are closing to mark the death of one of the world’s richest women, a royal who never went hungry in her life.

heraldscotland.com/opinion/218525… And this is happening in the same week that we learned the Tory government plans to left the cap on bankers’ bonuses. It was unrestrained pay in the city which led to the recklessness that caused the 2008 crash. As a result Tories introduced austerity - which led to food banks…