Prof Mark Priestley

'To hell with America, and to hell with its filthy war' The Iran attack has no clear motive or end game, and atrocities are happening. Our Writer at Large asks: how can anyone who says they are a British…

‘America demands that its ‘allies’ blindly follow where it commands. And where does that lead? To the bombing of another Iranian girls’ school. More civilian deaths, more atrocities? Another illegal war added to Britain’s count?’

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year We tracked reports and contacted police and prosecutors for a deeper look at the situation across UK.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security As speculation mounts that Kim Jong-un and Trump could meet this month, analysts say Pyongyang will continue to see nuclear weapons as a matter of survival

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Watching Trump’s Iran speech currently. I fail to see how anyone can take seriously this rambling incoherent buffoon

The mind simply boggles. These things are opening Pandora’s Box in the name of progress

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Altruistic Russia. How nice! #bullshit

Funnily enough, that’s what we are having tonight - Goan seafood curry (yum)

You’ve stolen my chopping board and vegetable knife ! 😮

As an educator, I strongly support action to deal with the growing problems of misogyny and sexual harassment in schools. This sort of approach seems necessary to foster equality and reduce the scourge of VAWG. As ever, these initiatives need to be properly resourced, inc specialist staffing

I’d rather poke out my own eyes than watch this drivel

Zelensky shares new update on liberated Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv 'more positive' than at end of 2025 Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the country's south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky claime...

Ukrainian forces have liberated up to 435 kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in the country's south, thwarting Moscow's efforts to mount a southern offensive, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on March 8.

kyivindependent.com/zelensky-sha...

‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The coldest 'stars' in the galaxy might actually be alien megastructures Ever since physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the concept in 1960, the "Dyson sphere" has been the holy grail of techno-signature hunters. A highly advanced civilization could build a "sphere" (or...

The coldest 'stars' in the galaxy might actually be alien megastructures - #Astronomy - phys.org/news/2026-03...

Silfen The Silfen are an alien species that inhabit many worlds within the galaxy. The Silfen are bipeds and are slightly taller than humans. Their heads are proportionally larger than humans with a flat fac...

Well they must be better than a world dominated by a senile narcissist toddler

peterfhamilton.fandom.com/wiki/Silfen

My favourite aliens are the Silfen - mystical elf-like beings who travel mysterious pathways through the galaxy in Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth saga

Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests Researchers who listen for signs of non-human life say signals ‘can slip below detection thresholds, even if it’s there’

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

What a revolting, small minded arsehole he is

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Under a regime that banned them from school, work & public life — a small but fearless group of Afghan women walked into the streets of Kabul today. No protection. No guarantees. Just courage. 🤍
This is what IWD looks like under the world’s only gender apartheid regime. Share this. 🌍​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Happy International Women’s Day!

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

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Criminal megalomaniac leaders are ultimately enabled by disgusting ordinary people

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer

Churchill would have been appalled by a figure like Trump. But some journalists have convinced themselves that Starmer is to blame for this hiccup in the “special relationship” app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72649/...

Chandra telescope spots first alien 'astrosphere' around a sun-like star The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away. What it is: HD 61005, a sun-like star nicknamed the "Moth" Where it is: About 117 li...

NASA’s Chandra Telescope took this image of a young (100 million year-old) sun‑like star HD 61005 ~120 light years away showing formation of an early heliosphere and how stellar winds interact with local galactic environments around forming planetary systems.
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He’s not the messiah, he’s a very nasty old man

When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.

Ukraine Defeats Russia’s Winter Bombardment Campaign

Historically it’s pretty much impossible to beat Russia in winter war – but Ukraine just did.
by Stefan Korshak

Article:
www.kyivpost.com/post/71319

So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.