Scott Agnew
@scottagnew.bsky.social
Scottish, Glaswegian, Comedian, ex-journalist, Gay, HIV+ (U=U). Back from the dead three times.
Listen to my BBC R4 series here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0021p0h?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Listen to my BBC R4 series here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0021p0h?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Great episode of #BreakingTheNews to finish the series, with some of my gags sprinkled about
The panel were fantastic along with Des as always
@scottagnew.bsky.social @tiffstevenson.bsky.social @vittorioangelone.bsky.social @kathleenwho.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The panel were fantastic along with Des as always
@scottagnew.bsky.social @tiffstevenson.bsky.social @vittorioangelone.bsky.social @kathleenwho.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Breaking the News - Vittorio Angelone, Kathleen Hughes, Tiffany Stevenson and Scott Agnew - BBC Sounds
Des Clarke hosts Scotland's award-winning satirical news quiz.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Great episode of #BreakingTheNews to finish the series, with some of my gags sprinkled about
The panel were fantastic along with Des as always
@scottagnew.bsky.social @tiffstevenson.bsky.social @vittorioangelone.bsky.social @kathleenwho.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The panel were fantastic along with Des as always
@scottagnew.bsky.social @tiffstevenson.bsky.social @vittorioangelone.bsky.social @kathleenwho.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
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Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
This is the Observer's coverage of the Reform Russian Spie Scandal... 600 words on page 22 of the printed newspaper.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
More MEPs investigated in Russian bribe probe | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Dear Bluesky,
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
www.thenerve.news is still tiny. We launched it with no dirty money (no money at all, lol!). But we're proving what's possible with a small expert team & no billionaire owners.
We knew the UK press wouldn't understand or properly cover this story, so we did. Thank you for the support!
"One billion dollars!!!"
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"One billion dollars!!!"
Andrew: The Royal formerly known as Prince.
October 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Andrew: The Royal formerly known as Prince.
Celebrity Traitors is what I imagine a weekend at JK Rowling's mouldy house must be like while she figures out who's not been cunty enough to a trans person in the last six months.
October 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Celebrity Traitors is what I imagine a weekend at JK Rowling's mouldy house must be like while she figures out who's not been cunty enough to a trans person in the last six months.
At what stage of the menopause am I at when the waft of a McDonald's chicken nugget took me straight to 1991 and unlocked all the lyrics to Beverley Craven's "Promise Me" and now I'm sitting greeting and sooking on a mint Aero?
October 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
At what stage of the menopause am I at when the waft of a McDonald's chicken nugget took me straight to 1991 and unlocked all the lyrics to Beverley Craven's "Promise Me" and now I'm sitting greeting and sooking on a mint Aero?
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This morning I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice @angelaconstance.bsky.social MSP to register our concern over plans by the Home Secretary to provide new protest policing powers to police forces in England and Wales and to ascertain if the CabSec intends to mirror this in Scots law.
October 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This morning I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice @angelaconstance.bsky.social MSP to register our concern over plans by the Home Secretary to provide new protest policing powers to police forces in England and Wales and to ascertain if the CabSec intends to mirror this in Scots law.
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
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The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference
September 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference
Nigel Farage shows himself a fraud challenging Starmer to join him in a Working Man's Club for a pint and watch Channel 4 Racing. Channel 4 hasn't shown horse racing since 2016.
May 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Nigel Farage shows himself a fraud challenging Starmer to join him in a Working Man's Club for a pint and watch Channel 4 Racing. Channel 4 hasn't shown horse racing since 2016.
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📣Love comedy, hate racism? We're delighted that weegie comedian @scottagnew.bsky.social joins the line-up for the #StopReform summit
📍The Boardwalk, Glasgow city centre
🗓️Sat 31 May
🎟️Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stop-refor...
📍The Boardwalk, Glasgow city centre
🗓️Sat 31 May
🎟️Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stop-refor...
May 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📣Love comedy, hate racism? We're delighted that weegie comedian @scottagnew.bsky.social joins the line-up for the #StopReform summit
📍The Boardwalk, Glasgow city centre
🗓️Sat 31 May
🎟️Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stop-refor...
📍The Boardwalk, Glasgow city centre
🗓️Sat 31 May
🎟️Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stop-refor...
"Francis - get the door!"
May 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Francis - get the door!"
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C҉a҉n҉ y҉o҉u҉ t҉r҉u҉s҉t҉ y҉o҉u҉r҉s҉e҉l҉f҉?
Come find out at my Open House in London next Wednesday from 4PM! 🏠
Everyone's welcome - I can't wait to see you and celebrate the release of my new single This Perfect Friend ☀️
ttikaram.lnk.to/TPF
Love, Tanita 🫶
#newmusic
Come find out at my Open House in London next Wednesday from 4PM! 🏠
Everyone's welcome - I can't wait to see you and celebrate the release of my new single This Perfect Friend ☀️
ttikaram.lnk.to/TPF
Love, Tanita 🫶
#newmusic
April 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
C҉a҉n҉ y҉o҉u҉ t҉r҉u҉s҉t҉ y҉o҉u҉r҉s҉e҉l҉f҉?
Come find out at my Open House in London next Wednesday from 4PM! 🏠
Everyone's welcome - I can't wait to see you and celebrate the release of my new single This Perfect Friend ☀️
ttikaram.lnk.to/TPF
Love, Tanita 🫶
#newmusic
Come find out at my Open House in London next Wednesday from 4PM! 🏠
Everyone's welcome - I can't wait to see you and celebrate the release of my new single This Perfect Friend ☀️
ttikaram.lnk.to/TPF
Love, Tanita 🫶
#newmusic
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It would be good if at least some of the energy poured into scrutinising hateful past comments by Irish hiphop groups could be focused on what is currently going on inside the main party currently leading all of the UK opinion polls bylinetimes.com/2025/04/30/r...
Reform UK Facebook Groups Are Full of Racist Far Right Posts and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories
Groups set up by Reform UK officials contain posts calling for Muslims to be lynched and suggestions that Jewish people are trying to "dilute out country with foreign invaders"
bylinetimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
It would be good if at least some of the energy poured into scrutinising hateful past comments by Irish hiphop groups could be focused on what is currently going on inside the main party currently leading all of the UK opinion polls bylinetimes.com/2025/04/30/r...
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We'd also like to see messages or signs from employers or service providers that stop trans people using single sex spaces.
Meanwhile, if you get stopped please document what happened and contact us at Good Law Project. goodlawproject.org/about/contact/
Contact | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
goodlawproject.org
April 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
We'd also like to see messages or signs from employers or service providers that stop trans people using single sex spaces.
Watching the Pope lying in state to get a swatch at the Italian men going by. "Ciao gallina!"
April 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Watching the Pope lying in state to get a swatch at the Italian men going by. "Ciao gallina!"
Can anyone tell me the reason behind this trend on telly drama for the main protagonist driving a wildly out of date motor vehicle? The boxy Volvo estate of the 70s and 80s seems to pop up a lot, for example Black Mirror and Fear. But it seems to be there's an epidemic of auld motors on the telly.
April 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Can anyone tell me the reason behind this trend on telly drama for the main protagonist driving a wildly out of date motor vehicle? The boxy Volvo estate of the 70s and 80s seems to pop up a lot, for example Black Mirror and Fear. But it seems to be there's an epidemic of auld motors on the telly.
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Is me! I am very, very grateful to the many amazing people – musicians, music fans, grassroots groups and more – who were so generous with their time and wisdom. And I'm very grateful to the people saying nice things about it.
Happy publication day to @carriem.co.uk and Small Town Joy!
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April 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Is me! I am very, very grateful to the many amazing people – musicians, music fans, grassroots groups and more – who were so generous with their time and wisdom. And I'm very grateful to the people saying nice things about it.
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This is an excellent article - I have some additional thoughts from a feminist perspective on the consequences of this Supreme Court judgment, rather than just my legal ones:
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The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state.
my latest for @thenation.com
my latest for @thenation.com
The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
www.thenation.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is an excellent article - I have some additional thoughts from a feminist perspective on the consequences of this Supreme Court judgment, rather than just my legal ones:
Thread 🧵
Thread 🧵
Join me celebrating 25 years on stage next Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday, May 3rd from 7.30pm at Blackfriars of Bell Street, Glasgow
Two and a half decades of laughs and prolapses, restrooms and resurrections - a one off special not to be missed.
www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Gla...
Two and a half decades of laughs and prolapses, restrooms and resurrections - a one off special not to be missed.
www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Gla...
Scott Agnew: The Silver Jubilee Show at The Comedy Cabaret Glasgow Blackfriars Of Bell St
THE comedian marks 25 years since first stepping on stage. All the hits! All the gossip! All the questions! After 25 years at the top/bottom/vers.
www.skiddle.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Join me celebrating 25 years on stage next Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday, May 3rd from 7.30pm at Blackfriars of Bell Street, Glasgow
Two and a half decades of laughs and prolapses, restrooms and resurrections - a one off special not to be missed.
www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Gla...
Two and a half decades of laughs and prolapses, restrooms and resurrections - a one off special not to be missed.
www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Gla...
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
t.co/LeABrGqDei
t.co/LeABrGqDei
April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
This country's demented - literally wandering about with our arse hanging oot our troosers and holes in our stocking soles but here's yer King playing a carrot flute with his big sausage digits.
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This country's demented - literally wandering about with our arse hanging oot our troosers and holes in our stocking soles but here's yer King playing a carrot flute with his big sausage digits.
Listen live at 1.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking The News as myself and top teammate Athena Kugblenu as we take on Ashley Storrie and Sam Lake - with the glorious Des Clarke in the chair as always. You can listen again later on BBC Sounds or again at 11.30am in Radio Scotland.
April 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Listen live at 1.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking The News as myself and top teammate Athena Kugblenu as we take on Ashley Storrie and Sam Lake - with the glorious Des Clarke in the chair as always. You can listen again later on BBC Sounds or again at 11.30am in Radio Scotland.