If you want to hear about cancer treatment challenges before and during the latest genocide, here's a talk by Dr Philippa Whitford, based on her own experiences.

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Graphic with an illusrtation of women and children playing and working on top of a report from the National Advisory Council on Women and Girls above a box containing text that reads: Holyrood 2026 Scotland is a global leader in securing gender equality for all women.

We're starting 2026 by focusing on each of the 10 vital areas covered in our manifesto for the Scottish election in May.

Gender inequality is not inevitable. To see a Scotland where women & girls achieve their full potential, the next Scottish Govt must design policy to meet women's needs. ⬇

Short-term let control zones considered for Inverness area Councillors have supported the plans but they have been criticised by a self caterers' body.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Math seo fhaicinn - I hope #HighlandCouncil #ComhairleNaGàidhealtachd follow through on this.

'Dreadful' Climate Plan does nothing for households, workers and communities Scotland's climate plan criticised for failure to provide positive climate solutions for households, workers or communities

The @FoEScot statement on the new 'climate plan' is scathing (and 100% correct): 'Dreadful' Climate Plan does nothing for households, workers and communities foe.scot/press-releas...

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐲𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 is obvious to anyone with half an ounce of human empathy.

Unfortunately Scotland doesn't yet control its own borders, so we have to stand and watch the effects of Labour's 'hostile environment' instead.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

The #BBC News website has clearly been living in the age of neoliberalism too long. Summarising the election of Zohran Mamdani it says he is "a democratic socialist which has no clear definition." Er, there is a world of literature & studies on what democratic socialism is.

When immigrants arrived - and from where | Created with Datawrapper Scotland: year of arrival vs country of birth

Only c10% of Scotland's population is made up of people born in other countries. But when did they arrive - and where from? I thought I'd take a look...

Most have arrived after 2010, and from the EU: for other EU members, Scotland was clearly attractive! And why not?

www.datawrapper.de/_/42CF6/

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy says at #PMQs that the SNP are "a national security threat.' Repeating words said by Defence Sec John Healey & Scottish Sec Douglas Alexander. Desperate stuff from a govt which cannot categorically say China is a threat to the UK.

Scotland's Islands: Emigration from England A Flourish data visualization by Yes in Pictures

Why do Scotland's Islands have such a high proportion of people who were born in England? In some it's as high as 2 in 3. In virtually all its higher than the Scotland average...

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TV tonight: Ashley Jensen is back solving murders in Shetland DI Ruth Calder investigates the killing of a retired social worker. Plus: the final episode of scandal drama The Hack. Here’s what to watch this evening

Shetland has the lowest recorded crime rate in all of Scotland. Most years it has exactly 0 murders.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

The same old same old as Mamdani sweeps New York.

The path from abusing foreigners to abusing the disabled is well-trodden. I I hope this nugget is bright enough to reflect on who else has walked it.

When you hear, "new information has emerged in recent times..." from a former royal press officer you know it actually means, "what the royals have known in full for years and which was so damaging they paid £12m to suppress it, is now coming into the public domain."

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

The 2024 UK General Election in Wales That Labour emerged victorious from the 2024 UK General Election in Wales must count among the least surprising political outcomes imaginable. It has, afte

NEWYDD - @jaclarner.bsky.social a minnau ar Etholiad 2024 yng Nghymru

NEW - Jac Larner and myself on the 2024 UK GE in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

2024 UK General Election in Wales url: academic.oup.com/pa/article-a...

Why We Need to Talk About Adaptation Introduction: the story so far I’m delighted to be writing today as the co-author of a new report called ‘We need to talk about adaptation’. This report is co-produced by the Climate Majority Project…

"The age of consequences is here. Which means that the Age of Adaptation is here."

Our new report, We Need to Talk About Adaptation, is OUT NOW. Summarised in this story 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/10/28/w...

I spoke at Yes Cymru rally in Rhyl last weekend and was blown away by their wall-to-wall use of Welsh. Astonished to be only non-Welsh speaker on that platform. Its obvious their language is massive part of Plaid’s Caerphilly by-election success.

Scotland has all the energy, but no power.

We should have the lowest bills not the highest. And for that, the policies of successive British governments are clearly to blame.

Independence will benefit everyone. Support a Scottish party. Preferably by joining one...

www.snp.org/join/member/

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this.

Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

The maintenance of the cruel two child benefit cap condemns a growing number of families & children to poverty. It does not have to be this way; government can act & go further in taking hundreds of thousands of families & children out of poverty. HT @resfoundation.bsky.social

Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
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Lesley Riddoch: What should Radio Scotland be doing instead of current 'shake up'? GOOD Morning Scotland is dead. Long live Good Morning Scotland

Radio Scotland’s problem isn't GMS presenters but the station's inability to reflect the real, post-indyref, curious, questioning nation Scotland has become & all the narratives, sources & outlooks that exist beyond a weary mainstream. Today's National column.
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Authoritarian Britain & the limiting of free speech & civil liberties. An academic wears a t-shirt declaring 'We are all Palestine Action" - an offence under the Terrorism Act. And where are those so-called defenders of free speech: Toby Young & his Free Speech Union? bit.ly/4qARBng

🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election.

The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls.

Huge if true.

Its Scotland! We love our gritters!