US nuclear weapons return to the UK ready for the RAF The UK government has announced a new nuclear role for the Royal Air Force using US bombs and aircraft. Dr Philip Webber, SGR, explores the disturbing implications of this surprise announcement. Artic...

sgr.org.uk/resources/us-nuclear-weapons-return-uk-ready-raf Handy from @responsiblesci.bsky.social
re US nukes in England, noting their role in dangerous escalation. For how their presence was spotted see nukewatch.org.uk/second-nucle...

The University of Sheffield's role in Britain's nuclear weapons - CND Following revelations by the Sheffield Tribune detailing how the University of Sheffield is designing Britain’s next nuclear warhead, Yorkshire CND has been protesting. Sam Legg, Yorkshire CND Events ...

Cheers @yorkshirecnd.bsky.social for exposing this. SU Department for the Advancement of Mass Killing. cnduk.org/the-universi...

On Saturday, peace activists went to U.S.A.F. Croughton for Keep Space For Peace Week.

Read Dave Webb's speech here: www.cndsalisbury.org.uk/uploads/data...

This is an England and Wales bit of legislation? Affecting us all in different ways but not directly applicable in Scotland?

Royal Navy Vanguard-class submarine comes home after 203-day patrol - Navy Lookout In what is becoming the new normal, an RN submarine returned to Faslane today after another lengthy patrol lasting more than six months, maintaining the nation's nuclear deterrent. This submarine left...

www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-v... Excessive pressure on the crews plus the obvious and serious risk around having nuclear reactors, missiles and nuclear warheads on board old and decrepit boats

View of Coulport armament store with: Navy told to remove radioactve waste from nuclear bomb base

theferret.scot/navy-told-to...

Large military trucks in convoy formation on a steep descent

These lorries carry the most deadly load on British roads, taking warheads to and from the atomic weapon factories Berkshire and Coulport on Loch Long. see nukewatch.org.uk

📢New event

We see growing hostility & racism in our politics and streets, climate breakdown across the globe, and ongoing war & genocide. Competition & militarism are not the answer.

Join our discussion on 08 October to share ideas for a counter-narrative.

rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/home/events/

Holding the Line: Gentrification and the Dispossession of the Kirkgate Benches

"For anyone committed to social justice, the saga of the Kirkgate benches is an affront to community diversity and integration. It was a violent act of social cleansing, a silent declaration that some people’s comfort is more valuable than other people’s survival"

www.discontent.wtf/news/holding...

“[Sudan] has been used as a tool to prove that concern for genocide elsewhere is motivated by…nefarious actors.”

Sudanese journalist and author @nesrinemalik.bsky.social responds to Western media using the Sudanese civil war to deflect from Gaza.

Watch the full panel: zeteo.com/p/genocide-i...

No Thrones, A Pledge | Daily Reckless words: A.L. Kennedy I hereby pledge allegiance to Utopia That place without an anthem, Its flag a turn of sunlight Rising over any nation, With no precise location on a map. And as I pledge, I kneel t...

I went to see @writereralk.bsky.social at the Edinburgh Book festival and at the end she read out an incredible poem. I asked her afterwards if I could set it to music. She agreed, and this is the result:

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

Someone tell me, what is the point of being a Labour MP?

What is it for?

ALT TEXT: Maggie Chapman MSP stands in a crowd, most of who are wearing black hoodies. There is a light blue and yellow sunset sky behind them. Standing close to Maggie is a person in a black cardigan, black and white keffiyeh, keffiyeh-style mask and sunglasses, holding a sign which reads "Refugees Welcome" above their head. Maggie is wearing a bright green t-shirt, a black, white and green keffiyeh, and has cropped grey-brown hair, tanned white skin and thin framed glasses.

ALT TEXT: The person holding the sign in the previous image holds it in one hand with their other around Maggie Chapman's shoulder. Their face is mostly blocked by the sign. Maggie is smiling widely, looking into the camera.

What happened to us?
Scotland used to be a warm & welcoming place. Increasing hostility against migrants is making us cold.

On Saturday, we said no to racism, no to xenophobia, & showed solidarity with the minoritised & the scapegoated in Aberdeen✊

Painting shows woman holding starving child above a pile of empty pots and pans and before a devastated landscape, with caption: John 21 15-17 FEED MY SHEEP

Large Mural at St John's kirk in Edinburgh's West End

An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide Almost 500 people were arrested in London yesterday for holding placards supporting ‘Palestine Action’ which the UK government has declared a ‘terrorist organisation’ despite it never harming anyon…

An hour of not feeling complicit in the genocide bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/08/10/a...

CND demonstrators outside the main gate of RAF Lakenheath standing behind a banner reading: "No US nukes in Britain"

US nuclear flights landed at Lakenheath last month indicating that US nukes are in Britain for the first time since 2008. CND calls on the UK government to make an urgent statement and allow for a transparent debate and vote in Parliament.

Find out more: https://cnduk.org/lakenheath/

Peaceful protest planned at Faslane ahead of 80th anniversary of atomic bomb

A protest is planned at Faslane this weekend to make a fresh call for a world free of nuclear weapons

Here's to him. Glorious writer and funny guy.

Emergency Gaza protest planned for Ian Murray’s Edinburgh office

An activist group are set to stage an emergency demonstration in Edinburgh on Friday evening

Nah, mate. We're just of a stranger island. Stranger every feckin day.

When Rachel Reeves backs trickledown economics and deregulation of financial sector she is all of the below:
Using discredited ideology.
Ignoring economic evidence.
Scared of the City.
Desperate.
A Tory.

Unless otherwise marked, please know all messages here are certified 'human written '.

As the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms and the world shuffles carelessly towards nuclear catastrophe, there’s this: US Strategic Bombing Survey July 1946: “Japan would have surrendered even if atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs did not defeat Japan, nor by the testimony of the enemy leaders who ended the war did they persuade Japan to accept unconditional surrender.”

As the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki looms and the world shuffles carelessly towards nuclear catastrophe, there’s this: US Strategic Bombing Survey July 1946: “Japan would have surrendered even if atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs did not defeat Japan, nor by the testimony of the enemy leaders who ended the war did they persuade Japan to accept unconditional surrender.”

Petition: Call time on corporate courts The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals. At this very moment, the government is negotiating an investment treaty with India that...

The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals.

Sign the petition: Call time on corporate courts. #StopISDS

act.globaljustice.org.uk/petition-cal...

I'll believe it when I see it...

Have to include the SNP lot who shamefully abstained

YouTube video by penny stone Sometimes You Need a Hammer

Songster Penny Stone on it re UK's shot at crushing Palestine Actions www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFLm...

Very few people know of the atrocities that Gypsy Travellers faced in Scotland only a few decades ago.

It was a cultural genocide, & its legacy lives on.
Many in the community anxiously await today's announcement to see if ScotGov will finally apologise for their part💙‍☸️‍💚