Glasgow For Europe

He has learned nothing from the Iraq war.

"The pollster Peter Kellner has calculated that if the referendum were rerun today, instead of a leave win by 1.3m votes, remain would win by 8m. There’s no historic parallel for the injustice of that"

Happy #InternationalWomensDay - what a treat from Isata Kanneh-Mason and the Scottish Symphony Orchestra 👏👏👏👏👏

It is.

Inside the Home Office: 'Hostile culture and Kafkaesque chaos' Immigration is the most divisive issue in British politics. Our Writer at Large talks to the Home Office insider blowing the whistle on government…

‘They hire McDonalds staff to decide deportation cases’

I talk to Home Office insider turned whistleblower Nicola Kelly. She tells me how politicians deliberately broke the UK asylum system & why small boat arrivals are a reckoning with Britain for its colonial past

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the market

“Brexit, by killing free movement to and from the EU, caused the biggest voluntary loss of rights in British history, and economically was somewhere on the spectrum between a mistake and a disaster”

The unfairness of it all.
@resolutionfoundation.org

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the market

“With Brexit, older people with secure retirement incomes put their cultural anxieties ahead of future generations’ economic needs”

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

This infographic was produced in order of MP’s money earned from other jobs.

Ooh look who’s front and centre, it’s “man of the people” Nigel Mirage.

Not often seen in his constituency but topping the charts of additional earnings.

Russia is helping Iran to target US military assets in Middle East Tehran using intelligence shared by Moscow to launch retaliatory drone and missile attacks

FT exclusive:

Russia has shared targeting intelligence with Iran, including locations of American military assets in the Middle East, as Tehran unleashes a barrage of drone and missile strikes against the US and its allies, said people familiar with the matter.

www.ft.com/content/19be...

Important segment from #BBCQuestiontime

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...

Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.

You just knew which side the Right would come down on.

Yes, Keir Starmer must do better and go faster in bringing Britain closer to Europe. Here’s how to reset his reset | Naomi Smith MPs warn the plan so far lacks direction and drive, but there are four clear ways to really move on from our disastrous Brexit, says Naomi Smith of Best for Britain

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dead right

A report has found that the UK-EU summit last May had “substantially improved the overall political relationship”, but it concluded the UK “lacks clear strategic priorities”
SELFE's strategic priority is clear, and that's to #RejoinEU

Our next #Eurocafe will be on Saturday March 28th

All welcome!

Venue The Social Hub, 15 Candleriggs

The unBrexited Britain that could have led Europe London could have been the EU’s capital, leading the continent’s defence against Putin and Trumpworld, instead of a spectator to decisions it once helped to shape

This is something I had wanted to write for ages, but 10 years on from the Brexit vote made the most sense.

What would Britain still inside the EU look like? Incredibly powerful, is the answer.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/luke-mcgee-t...

We must stop pretending that Brexit was just a domestic choice.

It was a successful Russian hybrid operation designed to shatter Western cooperation.

This betrayal has left both the UK and the EU more vulnerable to aggression.

Those who still defend it are idiots or traitors

Interested in exporting to the EU or growing existing exports? Dundee & Angus Chamber of Commerce, Dept for Business & Trade & UK Business Centre Lille, the Scotland Office hosting a free 2 day masterclass for SMEs.
📆 Wed 11 March - Thur 12 March
🔗 Find out more & book place lnkd.in/eBdwKvJF

UK citizenship applications surge as Reform vows settlement crackdown Data shows sharp rise in Americans applying, but overall number of people granted British citizenship fell last year

UK citizenship applications surge as Reform vows settlement crackdown.

"It is time to reset the partnership between the European Union and the United Kingdom."

President Roberta Metsola (@president.europarl.europa.eu) speaking at our 2026 Security and Defence conference called for closer UK-EU ties post-Brexit⤵️

The programme for the 2026 Festival of Europe Scotland is now out. 24 events so far throughout Scotland - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, Dumfries, Stirling - more be announced! Conferences, talks, music, film, art, family events. For details & to book places: festivalofeuropescotland.org/events/

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

The new war machine. Machine learning and large language models. Palantir, OpenAI etc are really the Krupps and IGFarben of the 21st Century

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The BBC is lost

🇫🇷‼️ France has sent a frigate to protect Cyprus, an EU ally, from Iranian missiles or drones, Macron announced tonight. He also said he had ordered the giant aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its frigate escorts to cut short a Baltic visit and sail to the eastern Med. 1/

European leaders must stop pretending, to themselves and their voters, that peace is around the corner. 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social insight by @cerianbond.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/6RWmjER

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Scotland's Festival of Europe 2026 programme is now out! Day 1, May 7, in Edinburgh, features: Focus on Poland @Studies in Photography Gallery; Live Music Now Vienna @Scottish National Gallery, Mound. And the first in series of 3 Spanish films. Details: www.festivalofeuropescotland.org/events

Maybe this post might encourage you to sign the stop #Palantir petition

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Palantir has access to NHS and UK Defence Data - does that not worry you?