Steph Paton
@stephpaton.bsky.social
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET EHRC HEADQUARTERS
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET EHRC HEADQUARTERS
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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
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
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
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
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Statement regarding our action against the EHRC's London HQ
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Statement regarding our action against the EHRC's London HQ
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The vast majority of trans people in the UK feel unsafe: the beeb thinks that story is "too weak"
A handful of bigots think trans healthcare is unsafe: they get their own special on News Night
A handful of bigots think trans healthcare is unsafe: they get their own special on News Night
We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
October 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The vast majority of trans people in the UK feel unsafe: the beeb thinks that story is "too weak"
A handful of bigots think trans healthcare is unsafe: they get their own special on News Night
A handful of bigots think trans healthcare is unsafe: they get their own special on News Night
Reposted by Steph Paton
We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
goodlaw.social
October 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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I like my other former Green colleagues are fed up of the abandonment of whole communities. I have joined Your Party because I am tired of lending our power to politicians who don’t answer to us. We have the power to fight back with a new politics, I want to be part of a movement, not a slogan.
BREAKING: Three Scottish Greens councillors have defected to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's new left-wing party
It means that Your Party now have their first political representation in Scotland
It means that Your Party now have their first political representation in Scotland
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I like my other former Green colleagues are fed up of the abandonment of whole communities. I have joined Your Party because I am tired of lending our power to politicians who don’t answer to us. We have the power to fight back with a new politics, I want to be part of a movement, not a slogan.
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BREAKING: Three Scottish Greens councillors have defected to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's new left-wing party
It means that Your Party now have their first political representation in Scotland
It means that Your Party now have their first political representation in Scotland
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
BREAKING: Three Scottish Greens councillors have defected to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's new left-wing party
It means that Your Party now have their first political representation in Scotland
It means that Your Party now have their first political representation in Scotland
Big news for Glasgow today. Three councillors have defected from the Greens to join Your Party.
Today I also sent my resignation from the party after being a member for over a decade.
www.thenational.scot/news/2556815...
Today I also sent my resignation from the party after being a member for over a decade.
www.thenational.scot/news/2556815...
Glasgow Green councillors become first Your Party representatives in Scotland
THREE Scottish Greens councillors have defected to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana's new left-wing party ...
www.thenational.scot
October 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Big news for Glasgow today. Three councillors have defected from the Greens to join Your Party.
Today I also sent my resignation from the party after being a member for over a decade.
www.thenational.scot/news/2556815...
Today I also sent my resignation from the party after being a member for over a decade.
www.thenational.scot/news/2556815...
The 'island of strangers' party says what now?
Lam: Deport people who have legal right to be here as coded call for ‘culturally coherent’. As if this nation ever was 1 tribe..
Jenrick: hold my pint! Ban burqas- because the state not religion should tell women what to wear
Are Tories competing with each other like prejudice is an Olympic sport?
Jenrick: hold my pint! Ban burqas- because the state not religion should tell women what to wear
Are Tories competing with each other like prejudice is an Olympic sport?
October 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The 'island of strangers' party says what now?
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Politeness won't defeat fascism.
October 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Politeness won't defeat fascism.
Liberals looking around at the horrors they've helped unleash like:
Suspect Guilty GIF
ALT: Suspect Guilty GIF
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Liberals looking around at the horrors they've helped unleash like:
While Keir Starmer was claiming antisemitism as the reason for the ban, Maccabi fans were rioting back in Tel Aviv.
They've made him look a right idiot.
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They've made him look a right idiot.
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
www.thenational.scot
October 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
While Keir Starmer was claiming antisemitism as the reason for the ban, Maccabi fans were rioting back in Tel Aviv.
They've made him look a right idiot.
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
They've made him look a right idiot.
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
Maccabi fans have made Starmer look like the biggest idiot in Britain - but really, the fault lies with the Prime Minister himself.
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Steph Paton: Keir Starmer looks like biggest idiot in UK over Maccabi Tel Aviv call
THERE’S something about the “intellectual” that reeks of elitism. Maybe it’s because intellectualism has, in history, seemed too aloof; too…
www.thenational.scot
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Maccabi fans have made Starmer look like the biggest idiot in Britain - but really, the fault lies with the Prime Minister himself.
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
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Sigh 😒
They're doubling down.
"The Home Secretary has said it is “unacceptable” for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling on gender."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
They're doubling down.
"The Home Secretary has said it is “unacceptable” for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling on gender."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Mahmood hits back at European watchdog over trans and protest rights concerns
The Supreme Court ruled in April that the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
www.independent.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Sigh 😒
They're doubling down.
"The Home Secretary has said it is “unacceptable” for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling on gender."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
They're doubling down.
"The Home Secretary has said it is “unacceptable” for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling on gender."
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
'It doesn’t matter that you are flat-out wrong. The leading narrative of the populist right has been that “feeling” like a minority group is a threat to you is justification enough to treat them like one – reason and proof be damned.'
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
Steph Paton: Keir Starmer looks like biggest idiot in UK over Maccabi Tel Aviv call
THERE’S something about the “intellectual” that reeks of elitism. Maybe it’s because intellectualism has, in history, seemed too aloof; too…
www.thenational.scot
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
'It doesn’t matter that you are flat-out wrong. The leading narrative of the populist right has been that “feeling” like a minority group is a threat to you is justification enough to treat them like one – reason and proof be damned.'
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
There's not enough shame in the world for folk who'll use Brianna Ghey while sitting in a party that was stripping her rights away.
Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
There's not enough shame in the world for folk who'll use Brianna Ghey while sitting in a party that was stripping her rights away.
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While Starmer was still claiming antisemitism as the reason for the ban, Maccabi fans were rioting back in Tel Aviv.
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
Steph Paton: Keir Starmer looks like biggest idiot in UK over Maccabi Tel Aviv call
THERE’S something about the “intellectual” that reeks of elitism. Maybe it’s because intellectualism has, in history, seemed too aloof; too…
www.thenational.scot
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
While Starmer was still claiming antisemitism as the reason for the ban, Maccabi fans were rioting back in Tel Aviv.
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
While Starmer was still claiming antisemitism as the reason for the ban, Maccabi fans were rioting back in Tel Aviv.
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
Steph Paton: Keir Starmer looks like biggest idiot in UK over Maccabi Tel Aviv call
THERE’S something about the “intellectual” that reeks of elitism. Maybe it’s because intellectualism has, in history, seemed too aloof; too…
www.thenational.scot
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
While Starmer was still claiming antisemitism as the reason for the ban, Maccabi fans were rioting back in Tel Aviv.
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
www.thenational.scot/sport/opinio...
Keir Starmer thinks antisemitism is the reason that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans aren't welcome in Birmingham.
Meanwhile, in the real world...
Meanwhile, in the real world...
The Tel Aviv derby between Maccabi and Hapoel could not be played today in Tel Aviv as the Israeli fans injured rival fans and the police. The game was abandoned at half-time in January. The Israeli police & authorities have struggled to contain the conduct of fans
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Bloomfield chaos forces suspension of Tel Aviv derby | The Jerusalem Post
The decision to suspend the Tel Aviv derby came after extensive use of pyrotechnics by fans led to injuries among both supporters and police officers.
www.jpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Keir Starmer thinks antisemitism is the reason that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans aren't welcome in Birmingham.
Meanwhile, in the real world...
Meanwhile, in the real world...
I think the words you're looking for here are 'Israel breaks ceasefire'.
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I think the words you're looking for here are 'Israel breaks ceasefire'.
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It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.
bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.