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Steph Paton
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Glasgow left journo writing about politics, LGBTQ+ liberation and environmentalism. Columnist for @ScotNational. They/Them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Steph Paton @stephpaton.bsky.social · Nov 21
If we're doing reintroductions: Hello! My name is Steph, formerly @stephenpaton134 on Twitter.

I'm a Scottish journalist and filmmaker. They/them on the streets, also in the sheets.

I write about politics from the Left, LGBTQ+ liberation, environmentalism and the state of British foreign policy.
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alisonphipps.bsky.social
Israel kills doctors then bans international Doctors Without Borders

Israel kills children then bans Save the Children

www.savethechildren.net/news/save-ch...

www.thenational.scot/news/2573097...
Israel to suspend work of several humanitarian organisations in Gaza
ISRAEL has been panned after saying it will suspend more than two dozen humanitarian organisations from working in Gaza ...
www.thenational.scot
December 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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scotnational.bsky.social
A Scottish charity head has rejected an MBE, saying the UK Government is 'demonising disabled people'
Scottish charity head rejects MBE over UK Government 'demonising disabled people'
www.thenational.scot
December 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
stephpaton.bsky.social
Bringing back a column of mine from two weeks ago, because apparently the media still cant figure out why no-one likes the promise breaking, genocide supporting, two child cap defending, racist, transphobic PM.
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
December 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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drhonor.bsky.social
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 11d
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
Sorry just remembering this moment when this got presented in parliament as a legitimate death threat
December 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
stephpaton.bsky.social
The annual holiday message from Downing Street was as predictably generic as you would expect from this Labour Government – yet, somehow, Starmer has found himself in opposition to even his most bland overtures toward goodness.
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
Keir Starmer's Christmas message told me everything I need to know about him
I MAY not care for Christianity’s nebulous, pick-and-choose values system, but I know a hypocrite to it when I see one – and if anyone should…
www.thenational.scot
December 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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bashback.bsky.social
1. There is no conspiracy. This is all publicly available information that has been up for months.
2. "Trans mob"? "Militant group"? "Gender Warriors"? We are FLATTERED
3. This you @dailymail.co.uk?
Daily Mail article headline from 1934 reading "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" Daily Mail article headline from 1993 reading "Abortion hope after 'gay genes' findings"
December 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
stephpaton.bsky.social
Guardian writers trying to find the guy who did this
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Suspect Guilty GIF
ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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bashback.bsky.social
Our comrades, our hunger strikers, have been starving for 5 weeks in protest of the state's oppression of Palestinian activists and continued participation in Israeli apartheid and genocide.
If you have not done anything to support them, start now.

##SupportTheHungerStrikers
greenpeaceuk.bsky.social Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 26d
SHOCKING: 7 Palestine Action activists have been on HUNGER STRIKE for as long as 30 DAYS.

The activists have been denied bail, and could be held for over two years before their trial.

WHY is no one talking about this?!

#PalestineAction #RightToProtest #UK #news #politics
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.
Sandie Peggie reveals friends turned against her in transgender legal battle
December 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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whatthetrans.com
Leaked audio from Cass talking to NHS Sheffield.

drive.proton.me/urls/EPMR96E...

Leak is thanks to Trans Kids Deserve Better

www.instagram.com/reel/DSf3rqb...
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December 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
stephpaton.bsky.social
Don't think the Prime Minister is too dull to be cruel. His record shows otherwise.
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
Steph Paton: There’s so much that makes Keir Starmer far from ‘inoffensive’
I’VE always found “cult of personality”-style politics to be pretty weird
www.thenational.scot
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
stephpaton.bsky.social
There is a a cult of anti-personality around the Prime Minister that seems to have led many into believing Keir Starmer is simply too dull to be cruel.
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
Steph Paton: There’s so much that makes Keir Starmer far from ‘inoffensive’
I’VE always found “cult of personality”-style politics to be pretty weird
www.thenational.scot
December 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.

Western liberal democracies in 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
stephpaton.bsky.social
Spoiler: The Labour Party's 'compromise' is the segregation of trans people.
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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franceslarina.bsky.social
Imagine calling your instructor Demonic in an essay, getting a poor grade and having school admins and state politicians back you; that's how out of balance and proportion the right has become.
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
stephpaton.bsky.social
There's something familiar in the far right’s mounting attacks on abortion rights here in the UK...
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Transphobia is just the first step in removing rights from all women and girls
There's something familiar in the far right’s mounting attacks on abortion rights here in the UK
www.thenational.scot
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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drnajimagi.bsky.social
I mean, there hasn't been a lawful justification for most of the bombings but targeting refugees in a whole other country is reeeaalllly high up on the No This Is Neither Legal Nor Moral list
November 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
stephpaton.bsky.social
Praise from the far right is hardly the endorsement any reasonable person would want, but Labour have it in spades today.
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Steph Paton: You’d have thought praise from far right was a thing to avoid
Rarely has praise been so damning. “The Overton window is obliterated”, said Tommy Robinson. “Well done patriots.”
www.thenational.scot
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
stephpaton.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood went on telly to explicitly say that Reform were right about everything. That's your modern Labour Party, cementing support for the far right with bullshit.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Nov 16
“How do you respond to people who say you’re being panicked into a racist immigration policy?”
Trevor Philips
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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hleehurley.com
*stares in trans* whoever indeed...
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Nov 16
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips

Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
stephpaton.bsky.social
Now we all know it is in fact possible (as it always was) to take away someone's status as a royal. Time for the rest of them.
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Oct 31
The family of Virginia Giuffre said she had 'brought down a prince' after Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s public life as a royal was effectively ended by the King
Stripping of Andrew’s titles hailed a 'victory' by family of Virginia Giuffre
www.thenational.scot
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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bashback.bsky.social
BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET EHRC HEADQUARTERS
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
You dont want a nonce to be a royal well then abolish the whole thing you dont get to suddenly choose this one doesnt count is it your blood thats magic or not
roseschmits.bsky.social Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · Oct 31
Yknow i think they shouldnt be allowed to revoke his titles cause the fact a prince can be a horrible person is why you shouldnt have a monarchy innit. What you mean “punishment“? He shouldnt have had a title to begin with this is about protecting the crown
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Oct 31
Prince Andrew no longer being a Prince isn't the Daily Mail's main front page story today...
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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bashback.bsky.social
Statement regarding our action against the EHRC's London HQ
THE EHRC IS A HATE GROUP. THIS MONTH, THE GOOD LAW PROJECT FORCED THE EHRC TO DUMP THEIR TRANSPHOBIC "INTERIM GUIDANCE". LAST WEEK, 6 HUMAN-RIGHTS GROUPS DEMANDED THE EHRC HAVE THEIR A-STATUS REMOVED DUE TO AN "OBSESSIVE CAMPAIGN TO STRIP TRANS PEOPLE OF OUR RIGHTS". DESPITE THIS - AND DESPITE INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE - THEY STILL INTEND TO PUSH THEIR GUIDANCE (SEGREGATING TRANS PEOPLE OUT OF ALL SINGLE-SEX SPACES) TO GOVERNMENT. WE TOOK ACTION AGAINST THE EHRC'S LONDON OFFICE TO SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE: WE WILL NOT OBEY THEIR "GUIDANCE". THE TIDE IS TURNING. DO YOU SEE US NOW? DON'T ENDORSE HATE. WE DEMAND THAT ALL ORGANISATIONS DROP THE EHRC'S EXCLUSIONARY ANTI-TRANS "GUIDANCE". WE DEMAND FORA DROP THE EHRC AS TENANTS. EXERCISE YOUR FREE WILL. STAND UP FOR TRANS PEOPLE. BASH BACK.
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM