Severin Carrell

and so it begins - the annual Australian Open rammy

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis...

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Anyone running a sweepstake on which scandal, act of stupidity or display of crassness the Australian Open will give us this year?

Multimillionaire leader of Reform in Scotland refuses to reveal net worth Newly-appointed Malcolm Offord, who became a Tory life peer in 2021, plans to stand for Holyrood in May

The multimillionaire made leader of Reform UK in Scotland has refused to say how wealthy he is, claiming that is a private matter.

Malcolm Offord races yachts at Cowes, collects classic cars and bought a mansion on Loch Lomond for £1.6m without a mortgage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Multimillionaire leader of Reform in Scotland refuses to reveal net worth Newly-appointed Malcolm Offord, who became a Tory life peer in 2021, plans to stand for Holyrood in May

The multimillionaire made leader of Reform UK in Scotland has refused to say how wealthy he is, claiming that is a private matter.

Malcolm Offord races yachts at Cowes, collects classic cars and bought a mansion on Loch Lomond for £1.6m without a mortgage 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Germany and France joining Denmark and Sweden in Greenland.

Sport England suspends X social media account and takes aim at Elon Musk Sport England has revealed that it has suspended its account on the social media platform X

Sport England are leaving X/Twitter.

Chris Boardman explains it is because it has become a toxic environment - exemplified by the unlawful stripping & harassment of women and girls

But also one where effective & useful communication is less and less possible

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

'Ofcom launches investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery'

We've launched an investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery.

We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.

🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Ten Reasons To Love Aluminium | Isle of Harris Distillery Read our blog post Ten Reasons To Love Aluminium by Michael Donald from Isle of Harris Distillery

and this provides some numbers harrisdistillery.com/blogs/journa...

it is set out in the article

Green whisky? Scottish distillery tests eco-friendly aluminium bottles Stirling Distillery project risks being viewed as heresy but it says it wants to make the industry more sustainable

Green whisky? Heresy? Scottish distillery tests eco-friendly aluminium bottles for its flagship malt whisky 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

#maltwhisky #climatecrisis #aluminium

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Copy editors and all other headline writers should have bylines so people can scream at whoever actually wrote the headline instead of the reporter(s) who wrote the story

Trump latest: US will 'do something' on Greenland 'whether they like it or not,' says president Donald Trump has hosted oil bosses at the White House to discuss plans for Venezuela. There, he turned attentions briefly to Greenland - warning the US will "do something" the easy way or the hard way...

Trump: "we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not because if we don't do it Russia or China will take over...I would like to make a deal...the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way." news.sky.com/story/venezu...

88C NEWS WORLD BBC News (World) 008 @BBCWorld Follow Owner of Swiss ski resort held in custody after deadly New Year's Eve fire BREAKING bbc.com.NEWS 3:11 PM 09 Jan 26 41.3K Views 27 Reposts 5 Quotes 92 Likes 4 Bookmarks

The DG of the BBC said this week that it remains on X because it has to reach a worldwide audience.

40m followers....

40k views and 92 likes.

A local Facebook group has more reach.

Officials piloting software to tackle deepfakes ahead of Scottish and Welsh elections Electoral Commission says tools to detect AI-generated content could be in place before campaigns begin

Election officials and Home Office piloting software to tackle deepfakes ahead of Scottish and Welsh elections 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#Senedd26 #Holyrood26 #deepfake
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Officials piloting software to tackle deepfakes ahead of Scottish and Welsh elections Electoral Commission says tools to detect AI-generated content could be in place before campaigns begin

Election officials and Home Office piloting software to tackle deepfakes ahead of Scottish and Welsh elections 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#Senedd26 #Holyrood26 #deepfake
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

John Swinney backs UK's role in seizure of Russian oil tanker, amid suggestion US military used Scottish airport, @severincarrell.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Exclusive | New Class of Warship to Be Named After President Trump The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”

Exclusive: The Navy will build a new “Trump-class” battleship, Trump is set to announce. on.wsj.com/459nA4M

We'll see. I wonder what accountancy whizzery they can deploy to elide that...

CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.

CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story

Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration

60M's ⁦‪Sharyn Alfonsi‬⁩ said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage

My NPR story

www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estates

“We are applying a capitalist model, unashamedly and proudly,” says “Moneyball” carbon capitalist Rich Stockdale, boss of UK’s fast growing natural capital land owner #OxygenConservation 👇🏾🌳🦅

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scotland officials weigh up smoking ban exception for supervised crack use Move follows increase in drug users switching from injecting heroin to smoking crack in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Exclusive: Scottish government weighs up smoking ban exemption for crack cocaine users at safe consumption rooms 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #drugspolicy #ThistleCentre #smokingban

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Scotland officials weigh up smoking ban exception for supervised crack use Move follows increase in drug users switching from injecting heroin to smoking crack in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Exclusive: Scottish government weighs up smoking ban exemption for crack cocaine users at safe consumption rooms 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #drugspolicy #ThistleCentre #smokingban

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

‘Craig Callender, a philosophy professor at the University of California San Diego … agrees with that assessment, observing that “the appearance of legitimacy to non-existent journals is like the logical end product of existing trends.”’

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Epithets and accusations: Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump Parents say incidents are going unchecked after the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights retreated from investigating schools in Lubbock, Texas.

In 2023, the Education Department launched investigations into a Texas school district after several alleged incidents of racial bullying, and an investigator was planning to visit.

Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.

Norman Rockwell's painting 'Freedom of Speech' with the faces blanked out.

"The Epstein files have been released."

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...