@severincarrell.bsky.social
Scotland editor for the Guardian. A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss) I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
Last year Barnet Council granted planning permission for 33 luxury flats to an Iranian banker linked to Mojtaba Khamenei. He was sanctioned soon after.
This being Britain, the council exempted him from affordable home rules, but made him complete bat and newt surveys
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15 Scottish theatre critics have accused the Royal Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh of taking a “divisive” decision to bar reviews from UK national publications for its new musical version of One Day @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social 👇🏴🎭
www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...
The Ministry of Defence is working with the Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS to review UK health system capacity to respond to the demands of large-scale conflict, according to a written parliamentary
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/mod-reviewing-uk-health-capacity-for-wartime-needs/
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Exclusive: Brendan Carr's latest warning to local TV station license-holders didn't come out of nowhere. It came out of Mar-a-Lago.
Carr was at the president's Palm Beach resort on Saturday and was seen talking with Trump there 👇🏼👉🏼 cnn.it/4rDZaZD
war seems to be going to plan!
The military told Trump there was a real risk the Iranians would shut down the Straight of Hormuz, thus threatening the global economy, if he attacked, and he went to war anyway. Via WSJ
This is the default configuration of Samsung TV. GB News has bought prime spot.
What this meant was that racist chat entered my front room yesterday ("foreign NHS workers can't speak English").at 6.30pm with my six year old listening.
How can Ofcom just sit back and let this happen?
Superbugs resistant to antibiotics are rising fast. I tested water at Lough Neagh (40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water) & found high levels of antibiotic-resistant genes from human & livestock poo. If we treat waterways like sewers, this is what we get. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Breaking: The Trump administration will receive a $10 billion fee for brokering the deal that kept TikTok alive in the U.S. on.wsj.com/3NdA4mh
The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
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WSJ - The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit and more warships to the Middle East. www.wsj.com/livecoverage/us-i...
Good journalists tell inconvenient truths
Stable democracy depends on fearless scrutiny of government - Scotland should not fear such scrutiny
Also learned some things: bsky.app/profile/heat...
I repeat - @scottishgov.bsky.social and @johnswinney.bsky.social have known for years Prestwick is used by US armed forces to support its offensive operations. And the Scottish govt has openly touted for US military business for Prestwick; its officials flew to US military fairs to do so
Here's a USAF spokesman in 2018: "Prestwick is one of a variety of airfields within Europe that can be used to support a full range of USAF operations.
“[it] enhances our ability to conduct rapid global mobility, global strike operations and training to maintain combat-ready forces..." 4/4
I revealed that in 2018, here - they did this when Trump was a candidate and during his first presidential term, with the support of SNP ministers: www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
@scottishgov.bsky.social and @johnswinney.bsky.social have known for years Prestwick is used by US armed forces to resupply to support its offensive operations. And the Scottish govt has openly touted for US military business for Prestwick; its officials flew to US military fairs to do so 2/4
The BBC has run an interesting piece about USAF air refuelling tankers using Prestwick in Ayrshire to resupply for operations in Iran. John Swinney has implied when questioned this is untoward and his hands are tied: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Really? 1/4 🧵
Glasgow’s only fire engine with a high-reach ladder was unavailable on Sunday as an office block was gutted - the first aerial hoses came from Coatbridge - 26 minutes away
me with @libbybrooks.bsky.social #GlasgowFire #CentralStation
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
After a request for further support, the first high-reach appliance was mobilised from Coatbridge, 13 miles and 26 minutes away in light traffic, with further high-reach appliances based in Greenock (25 miles), Kilmarnock (22 miles away), Falkirk (26 miles) and Edinburgh (50 miles).
Glasgow’s only fire engine with a high-reach ladder was unavailable on Sunday as an office block was gutted - the first aerial hoses came from Coatbridge - 26 minutes away
me with @libbybrooks.bsky.social #GlasgowFire #CentralStation
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A special prize to anyone who protests about animals on banknotes *WHILE USING AN ANIMAL TO REPRESENT THE MYTHICAL GREATNESS OF THE NATIONAL CHARACTER*
Police Scotland fined after sharing contents of victim's phone – including intimate images and her medical records – with the officer accused of her rape, and sharing it with his Police Federation rep and his solicitor.
Words fail me.
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Hello, rest of world. Today in Britain the leaders of mainstream political parties have been debating whether putting native woodland creatures on our banknotes is emblematic of our tragic decline as a patriotic nation, and we hope things are equally weird with you.
Clothes line in Glencaple, Scotland, 1954, photo by Edwin Smith.
If anyone is interested, this is what Polanski told me at the time.
When I asked Zack Polanski about his brief if memorable career as a breast size-enhancing hypnotherapist, he told me that it was never about actual breast size, just body image.
This was not the case, and this new BBC article - and audio clip – makes that plainer.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m not sure this matters much, but it seems a bit implausible that Polanski, not then a public figure, would have ended up on the BBC the day after a 2013 Sun article that I don’t think anyone paid much attention to at the time to apologise for it?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
