Chris Marshall

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💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.

The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.

Good news. The modernist building once used as a studio by designer Bernat Klein has been saved for the nation after a coalition including the National Trust for Scotland bought it at auction for £279,000.

Restoration, which will see the building reopen as a studio, is estimated to cost £3m.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

I left X months ago. At some point, surely, a threshold is passed where it is no longer appropriate for Governments to continue to have a presence on that platform. If its AI going full-on Nazi is not that threshold, what is? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Bloody six pounds! He's going to get nowhere with that

Did you know John Swinney was born in Akron, Ohio, to a Polish dinner lady called Kazimiera? Well, that is what one fake biog of Scotland’s first minister on Amazon claimed. Are we ready for an AI-disinformation election in ‘26? 🧵 www.thetimes.com/article/6be7...

And the Sutton Hoo burial treasure is going to France - big day for medievalists, and you can't often say that.

France's Bayeux Tapestry to return to Britain after 900 years France will lend Britain the Bayeux Tapestry, allowing the 11th century masterpiece to come back across the Channel for the first time in more than 900 years, in a show of friendship to mark President Emmanuel Macron's state visit.

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Hi Barb, can you follow me back?

Scotland is stuck with a government better at politicking than governing On a range of measures, from cancer waiting times to housebuilding, the SNP are demonstrably failing

I wrote about how after nearly two decades of SNP government, it's become easier to identify areas where things have got measurably worse than better.

www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

Scotland is stuck with a government better at politicking than governing On a range of measures, from cancer waiting times to housebuilding, the SNP are demonstrably failing

I wrote about how after nearly two decades of SNP government, it's become easier to identify areas where things have got measurably worse than better.

www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

Scotland is stuck with a government better at politicking than governing On a range of measures, from cancer waiting times to housebuilding, the SNP are demonstrably failing

On a range of measures, from cancer waiting times to housebuilding, the SNP are demonstrably failing, writes @chrismarshll.bsky.social

Scotland is stuck with a government better at politicking than governing www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

Ambition meets reality

Chronic fatigue is not in your head, it's in your blood - experts University of Edinburgh researchers said the findings could pave the way for a

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If the criteria is the same, it's equally meaningless regardless of where it's used.

Could legalising assisted dying help improve access to palliative care? “We talk about a ‘cradle to grave NHS’ but that’s not true. That last bit – that pre-death, hospice part – is predominan...

France legislated for a right to palliative care alongside the legalisation of assisted dying. I wrote about the plan to do something similar in Scotland. www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

The definition of 'positive destination' is so wide (includes unpaid work and zero hours contracts) as to be completely meaningless and is part of the reason the figure is so high.

William Davies · TV Meets Fruit Machine: Faragist TikTok In my own For You journey into Faragism, I was struck by the recurring assumption that the ultimate prize was exit of...

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What next for national parks now the Galloway plan has been scrapped? With Galloway shelved and Loch Lomond Flamingo Land called in, questions remain about the purpose of and support for nat...

With the plan for Galloway scrapped and the Flamingo Land Loch Lomond application called in amid local anger, what next for Scotland's national parks? www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

NEW: John Swinney confirms no pensioner in Scotland will receive less than their counterparts in England for winter fuel payment.

That means those on lower incomes will get more than the £100 universal payment previously planned.

Details to be set out in due course.

The Edinburgh bakery so busy it has had to hire a 'bouncer' Lannan Bakery, in Stockbridge, has become an internet sensation and has a constant queue outside its shop.

The BBC website helped hasten the decline of local newspapers in Scotland and now publishes 'news' like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK Government U-turn on Edinburgh supercomputer project The University of Edinburgh will host the UK's new national supercomputer, after securing £750m in government funding

another U-turn - on the Edinburgh supercomputer that govt apparently said "made little strategic sense" last year www.holyrood.com/news/view,uk...

Confusion in the Scottish Parliament's education committee as convener Douglas Ross dials in remotely from...the Caribbean.

BREAKING: Breakfast

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

This is fascinating and disturbing in equal measure. One writer's devastating - and extremely creepy - takedown of ChatGPT amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Glasgow's JG Ballard-inspired urban planning continues apace

This supposes that FIFA / football cares about human rights. The two last World Cup hosts - Qatar, Russia - suggests otherwise.

Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source Fake Telegraph article about rich banker struggling to afford school fees was result of deception by a source.

This is being held up as a cautionary tale about AI in journalism, but it seems the subterfuge was all done by humans pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Hamilton by-election: The SNP's desperate strategy shows it is a party out of ideas Davy Russell’s win for Labour has shattered John Swinney’s strategy of talking up Reform’s support to divert disgruntled...

"Swinney’s second period as SNP leader looks little different from his first. Back then he was a decent man who was out of his depth. His effort to boost Reform now leaves him simply looking out of his depth."

Brutal by-election analysis from James Mitchell www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf resigns Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf resigns

Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf resigns following party row over banning the burqa www.holyrood.com/news/view,re...