Libby Brooks

Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns Parents advised to be vigilant over summer holidays to risk of offenders using in-game live chats to target their children

What emerges from so many of these studies is how slow tech companies & parents are to keep up with the emerging language & symbols adopted to avoid moderation

Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns

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John Swinney urges Trump to exempt scotch whisky from 10% tariffs First minister believes there’s ‘a window of opportunity’ to look at tariff costing scotch whisky industry £4m a week

John Swinney urges Trump to exempt scotch whisky from 10% tariffs

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View of those “ugly windmills” that so irritate Donald Trump from Balmedie beach on Tuesday morning

Trump uses press conference with Starmer to boost his golf business Scotland’s first minister criticised over talks to provide public funding for US president’s resort as it hosts Nexo championship

“Opulent and beautiful” Trump uses press conference with Starmer to boost his golf business

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Protesters at Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, to greet Trump when he lands here later this afternoon

Curious to know how many other arrests there have been in Scotland for the apparent crime of repeating Janey Godley's viral Trump phrasing....

Trump and von der Leyen announce US-EU trade deal Agreement includes 15% baseline tariff for most EU exports to US after deal reached at Scotland crunch talks

Trump and von der Leyen announce US-EU trade deal as pair meet in Scotland

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Read our exclusive Edinburgh race report with @severincarrell.bsky.social

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds

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Edinburgh rally against Trump, against genocide, for democracy, Gaza, rights

Trump tells Europe to ‘get your act together’ on immigration before US-EU trade talks Ursula von der Leyen will meet with US president on Sunday, who describes ‘20 sticking points’ in negotiations Intensive negotiations are continuing on Saturday between the EU and the US before a crunch meeting in Scotland between Donald Trump and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, to avert a costly trade war. Trump spent the night at his family-owned Turnberry golf resort on a private visit, but took time to criticise European leaders over wind turbines and immigration claiming there won’t be a Europe unless they “get their act together”. Continue reading...

Trump tells Europe to ‘get your act together’ on immigration before US-EU trade talks

‘People have seen through him and he’s not welcome’: Scotland tees up for Trump visit Protests planned but those who spent years opposing president’s golf courses worry about playing to his ego

I spoke to Scots who have opposed Trump over the decades in Menie, Stornoway and Turnberry as he arrives for a four day visit

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Trump says he has not thought about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell as he departs for Scotland – live President also wouldn’t answer when asked about possible clemency for Maxwell and is expected to be met with wave of protest as he heads to Scotland

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Here at Turnberry, where the story so far is of a sweeping police presence, high fencing and some inconvenienced dog walkers ahead of Trump’s arrival later today.

Fun fact: a bird watcher tells me there’s another North American visitor, the Western Sandpiper, on the coast today

John Swinney says he will raise Gaza’s ‘unimaginable suffering’ with Trump President’s visit is ‘landmark moment’, says first minister as SNP puts pressure on him to take strong stance on Palestine

John Swinney says he will raise Gaza’s ‘unimaginable suffering’ with Trump as he faces pressure from within the SNP to take a strong stance

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Donald Trump visit to Scotland expected to be met with wave of protest Demonstrations to be held in Aberdeen and Edinburgh amid US president’s visit to Turnberry and Menie golf resorts

National and local protests planned for Donald Trump’s visit to Scotland, as Downing Street plans Starmer meeting where “normal protocals do not apply”

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Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’ Palestine Red Crescent says the situation in Gaza is “only getting worse”, with spokesperson Nebal Farsakh calling it an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”. Farsakh said in a video posted to X on Tuesday that there has been no food, clean water or medicine entering the Gaza Strip for more than four months. This has resulted in a catastrophe where people are literally starving to death. More people are being admitted to hospitals with malnutrition especially among children, pregnant women and the elderly. Continue reading...

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live

Ibiza venue cancels music events after deaths of two British men in two weeks Ice hockey player Gary Kelly died at Ibiza Rocks Hotel as did fellow Scot Evan Thomson, who fell to his death on 7 July

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Man arrested in Glasgow for holding sign allegedly supportive of Palestine Action Arrest under the Terrorism Act happened after the man refused to stop displaying the sign when asked by police

Three arrests across Glasgow in a week of individuals holding sign/wearing tshirt/displaying poster allegedly supportive of Palestine Action

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So important to ask young people themselves what they think about tech - even if we don't like it - rather than filter everything through our own adult anxieties

Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election 16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in all elections as part of changes including easier voter registration and a crackdown on foreign interference

Having researched #Vote16 for 13 years, knowing the evidence and, crucially, meeting so many fantastic young people, I am very happy that #VotesAt16 will become reality across the UK! I hope that our research (@chuebner.bsky.social) has been useful to some.
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Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election 16- and 17-year-olds will be given right to vote in all elections as part of changes including easier voter registration

This is great news - since the 2014 referendum in Scotland & subsequent lowering of voting age at Holyrood to 16 we've seen early engagement translate into young adulthood

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Keir Starmer to remove Labour whip from at least four ‘persistent rebel’ MPs Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff to be pushed out as PM takes action

Grangemouth MP Brian Leishman amongst at least four ‘persistent rebels' expected to lose Labour whip

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Flying in the new age of conflict – the hotspots diverting flights and leaving pilots blind Amid conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, airlines have been forced to divert around warzones while managing new threats to their systems

A bracing but ultimately reassuring read for this passenger who is planning a long international flight tomorrow....

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Another damning insight into Dundee University's mismanagement, from @alasdairclark.bsky.social who has led the reporting on this whole shocking saga

Peter Krykant obituary Drugs policy campaigner whose commitment to harm reduction led him to set up an overdose prevention service

Obituary: Peter Krykant, harm reduction campaigner

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Assisted dying bill faces crunch vote in House of Commons – UK politics live The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will either clear the House of Commons and move to the Lords, or fail completely

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Grooming gang survivors tell MPs to stop ‘tug-of-war with vulnerable women’ – UK politics live Two survivors urged politicians and those without experience of abuse to allow women to shape the investigation

Patrick Harvie hits out at Swinney in his final FMQs as Scottish Greens co-leader - politic live
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Dani Garavelli · ‘Bang! I was out’: On Drug Consumption Rooms For some critics, providing a safe space to inject seems too much like enabling or endorsing drug taking. But for those...

"The Thistle staff are doing their best to counter the vested interests that want the centre to fail...but some workers worry there is a reluctance among injectors to be associated with a service that is never out of the headlines". By @danigaravelli.bsky.social

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Scottish government faces legal action over failure to implement biological sex ruling Campaign group accuses Holyrood of ‘intolerable’ delays to new policies required after landmark case

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Louise Casey criticises ‘public irresponsibility’ of officials over grooming gang race data – UK politics live Casey tells MPs she was surprised to be asked to re-engage with issue 10 years after her Rotherham report but says it was right decision

John Swinney claims independent Scotland 'within reach'

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