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'Damning' evidence of political pressure to open scandal-hit hospital - Sarwar The Scottish Labour leader says documents prove ministers pushed for the country's largest hospital to open early.

SNP applied pressure to open the hospital although there were known health and safety problems.

People died. Children died.

The biggest scandal since devolution.

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Surprisingly this story did not lead BBC Scotland news tonight.

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Airlines will not show this to prevent walkouts.

He is jealous because he didn't think of FIFA Peace Trophy first

Your Party must be very disappointed she didn't defect to them

They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.

I snort laughed …

Progressive Alliances are when other parties step aside for your party. Not the other way around.

My favourite thing about BlueSky is that when you see someone say Keir Starmer is acting like a ‘Stalinist’ over Andy Burnham, when you check their timelines it is often quite hard to tell if this is meant to be a criticism or not.

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Board of Peace - Season 1

Then you remember that the public voted for Brexit and have Reform at the top of polls. The traitors would definitely win without trying.

Does Stephen now have to return to 1917?

That was like watching a live version of the Prisoner's Dilemma! #TheTraitors #Traitors

Well that was a tense final vote!

Keir Starmer: "I consider Trump's remarks to be insulting & frankly appalling." #UKPolitics

Cover for Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, depicting a strange manta ray/ship floating through space towards a ruined space station as a red planet looms in the distance.

Tired of humanity today (no reason in particular)? Take a step into a very different future in @aptshadow.bsky.social’s excellent Children of Ruin: all the fun of Children of Time, but now with more octopuses! Full of clever worldbuilding and all the speculative wonder Tchaikovsky does best #Booksky

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Trump avoided military service 5 times.

How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

Or rather, behind the scenes lots of normal Americans in military and intelligence services will quietly carry on working with the UK and others whilst trying to ignore the children shouting upstairs.

Visit of the Prime Minister of Denmark 22nd Jawary 2026 We'll get by with a little help from our friends

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

Emily Thornberry MP:

"How dare this man, who's never seen any action, who somehow or other, when there was a draft for everybodyelse in the United States, managed to avoid it"

"And yet now is commander in Chief and knows nothing about how it is that America has been defended."

You're watching BBC Scotland.

How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer

So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
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Perhaps Nigel Farage would like to explain to the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq why he’s such a good pal of Donald ‘bonespurs’ Trump?

A whole party political broadcast talking basic saying "It's Scotland's wind". Not a single mention of the health service, education, policing, or public services... so depressing

how the hell can anyone vote for this man?

NEW: Republican member of Congress Anna Paulina Luna cuts a Greenland-shaped cake with a US flag on it in Davos today.

Wondering who is with her? That’s European far right leader, George Simion, the man backed by Putin to take control of Romania’s government.

The US is a joke internationally.

A screenshot of Lala and Po from the teletubbies. The screenshot is clearly taken from someone's phone, as the borders of the tv can be seen, as well as glimpses into the apartment behind them. Po is in bed wrapped up in a blanket. The text below them reads "I know you were high at my mother-in-laws funeral..."

More screenshots from the Teletubbies. Lala seems to be upset with a terrified Po. the text below reads "Did you kill the dog? Why would you do that?!"

A third screenshot from the Teletubbies, this time the same scene as before. Po is wearing an apron while Lala seems to still be upset at him. The text below reads "You're nothing but a failure of a man."

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.

I have translated some of the highlights

A joke for the history buffs.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.”