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Sign the petition: tell the BBC to boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned This is big: Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have all pulled out of Eurovision, because Israel have been allowed to enter. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bos...

38d.gs/nppc

TC - the epitome of a ‘faccia da cazzo!

But plenty daft brides!

Clown 🤡

BOYCOTT EUROVISION With photo of a destroyed car and buildings in Gaza Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

As Israel have been allowed to compete in Eurovision 2026, the UK must follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands and boycott the competition.

The world's largest live music event cannot be used to whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Another weird billionaire with too much power

Oh Ffs
do they think we button up the back

This is exactly how it works! Well said!

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

6 December 2002 Antonino Caponnetto, founder and head of the Palermo antimafia pool, dies aged 82. Of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino he said:
"living alongside them for four years ... I learnt that there are values in life for which death becomes of no importance."

Scottish Conservative peer defects to Reform UK Malcolm Offord appeared at a rally alongside Nigel Farage in Falkirk on Saturday to announce the move.

There are two categories of Reform supporter: millionaires and fuckwits. Check your bank balance to discover the one to which you belong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Should We Separate the Art from the Artist? | The Tyee American essayist Adam Gopnik thinks we’re better off without ‘trying to fence off our imaginations.’

The debate recurs with depressing regularity.

'MAGA fanboy Gianni Infantino’s degrading peace prize farce for Donald Trump'

What should have been a celebration of the beautiful game at the World Cup draw instead descended into a grim display of one man's political sycophancy.

Che vergogna Infantino!!

THIS is #Scotland
Thanks to @scotslassie.bsky.social for posting and the indomitable @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social for the fine, uplifting and heartfelt words.

Scottish Tourism is BOOMING.

2025 will be another record year, with VAT set to bring in over £14 billion, in Scotland alone.

It's gone up by a THIRD, in 5 years. It ALL goes to Westminster.

Independent Scotland will be self-supporting.

Easily.

There's no argument against Scottish Independence.

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Meno tasse per chi sposta la residenza in Sicilia: così la Regione cerca di attrarre “cervelli” nell'Isola In commissione bilancio approvati diversi emendamenti, tra cui uno che prevede incentivi per stimolare il rientro dei laureati fuggiti all’estero, implementare il lavoro agile e agevolare il sistema i...

Sicilian Regional government launches scheme whereby foreign citizens or Italian citizens resident abroad who transfer their residence to Sicily & buy a property will enjoy 50% deduction on their income tax. This increases to 60% if the residence is in a municipality with fewer than 5k residents.

Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰

'A ceasefire in name only': We publish a timeline of the ongoing violence in Gaza since a 'ceasefire' was agreed – as Benjamin Netanyahu's brutal, apartheid regime's genocide continues to claim lives

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This is who we are We're the grandchildren and the great grandchildren of the thousands who came from Ireland to work in our shipyards and in our factories. We are the 80,000 Polish people, the 8,000 Lithuanians, the 7,000 each from France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Latvia, who are among the many from countries beyond our shores that we are so privileged to have living here amongst us. We are the more than half a million people born in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who have chosen to live here in Scotland. We are the thousands of European students studying at our universities and our colleges, and we are the doctors and nurses from all across our continent and beyond, who care for us daily in our National Health Service. Whether we have lived here for generations, or are new Scots from Europe, India, Pakistan, Africa and countries across the globe we are all of this and more. We are so much stronger for the diversity that shapes us. We are one Scotland. We are simply home to all those who have chosen to live here. That is who and what we are. Nicola Sturgeon

This is the Scotland we must defend.

#NoPasarán

A beautiful black Scottish woman with long dark hair wears traditional Scottish dress and holds a thistle. A Saltire is behind her. The words say Black Lives Matter. Scotland Rejects Racism. The artwork is by Stewart Bremner.

We're all Jock Tamson's bairns.

Tell Nigel Farage and his far-right fascists, racist goons that we don't want their hate here.

#GieRacismTheBoot
#ScotlandWelcomesAll*

(*Bigots need not apply)

In Scotland too - Santy Claus

Lepanto LEPANTO

I'm not really starting a substack, I don't think. But 1 of the best things that happened to me this year was being shortlisted for the Anne Brown essay prize. The essay was on my great aunt, her house & her remarkable siblings. You can read it here, if you like. danigaravelli.substack.com/p/lepanto

Scotland is enriched by this wealth of diversity among wir bairns.

Nigel Farage can dae wan.

#RacistsGetTae
#AllJockTamsonsBairns
#Scotland

Budget Breakdown.

Get tickets for my 2026 Live Tour at: JonathanPie.com.

#VeniceGiftGuide

The Valese Foundry, founded by Luigi Valese in 1913, is located near the Church of La Madonna dell’Orto, Cannaregio, Venice. Using traditional sand casting methods, it is one of the few foundries that use the plug moulding technique.

valese.it/products/gon...
#Venice #Venezia

Photo of the side of a house on a street with the entire side wall covered in a mural resembling lace, under a blue sky

Polish artist NeSpoon from Warsaw, known for her street art featuring traditional lace pattern imagery #womensart