Sarah Barwood

Opinion | The Rise of Right-Wing Nihilism Rather than conserve or build, some people just want to destroy.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“This may be where history is leading,” our columnist David Brooks writes: “Smothering progressivism produced a populist reaction that eventually descended into a nihilist surge.”

Is a Scottish startup about to crack Alzheimer's? Or will the medicines regulator say no?

It’s taken 23 years and $890 million but a Scottish company you’ve never heard of believes it has created the first safe and affordable drug which can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s. But will the UK’s medicines regulator give it the green light?

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"The claim that protestors outside asylum hotels are all just ‘concerned citizens’ is a lie.

"Concerned citizens don’t perform Nazi salutes, as happened at protests in Falkirk. Concerned citizens don’t unfurl banners reading ‘Kill ‘em all’." || Neil Mackay 👇

Greg Jackson, "Our biggest offshore wind farm is paid not to generate energy 71% of the time"

"40% of all of the wind energy we could have from Scotland is paid to be not generated"

"We need to fix this because this is what is pushing people's bills up"

A gif of Met police carrying away and arresting an elderly woman today in Parliament square

Shame on Labour for putting our police in this position

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper must really be proud of arresting an old woman - free speech at it's finest in Labour's Brexit Britain

BIG BRAVE MET POLIS ARRESTING A RATHER SCARY TERRORIST, JUST LOOK AT HER GRIP 😐
How bloody ridiculous is this farce!

ARRESTED TODAY, BLIND, DISABLED - FOR OPPOSING GENOCIDE - LONDON, ENGLAND. bsky.app/profile/sirk...

What you are witnessing is Starmer commit political suicide by using the state apparatus arrest the enemies of his ISREALI HANDLERS...a BRITISH CITIZEN who is BLIND and DISABLED...the kiss of death and final nail in the coffin of Starmer's authoritarian Zionist-run short lived role as PM!!!

I WELCOME REUGEES BECAUSE I HOPE THAT ONE DAY, IF NEEDED , PEOPLE WOULD WELCOME ME AND MY FAMILY! 🫶

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

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It is abhorrent

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How the media ‘play’ Scotland’s voters stewartb How to ‘play’ Scotland’s voters – how to attempt deceit or manipulation for political advantage? Is there a recurring mainstream news reporting pattern in Scotland? Step 1: mains…

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Labour has had FOUR times the private healthcare donations of every other party Evidently, the private healthcare sector thinks Labour is the right horse to back for advancing its interests, namely NHS privatisation

Just sharing this again.
Labour has had FOUR times the private healthcare donations of every other party
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Sir Enoch Starmer promises to drown the babies of immigrants to win over Reform voters Reform voters say it's a start, but it's not enough

Will this win you over? x

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Poverty and hunger costs the UK economy £75.6 billion a year, landmark report finds Increased unemployment, decreased productivity, and more spending on public services means poverty, in fact, costs us money says Trussell

Poverty and hunger costs the UK economy £75.6 billion a year, landmark report finds

Increased unemployment, decreased productivity, and more spending on public services means poverty, in fact, costs us money says Trussell
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

The UK’s inflation data has been seriously overstated FT Alphaville has an article this morning that has the headline: The UK’s inflation figures were wrong and now we just have to live with that I won't quote it at length, although it is good investig...

It's been revealed that the Office for National Statistics, which prepares the UK's inflation data, has been using the wrong prices to estimate it. They have used list prices, not what most people pay. The result? Serious overstatement of inflation. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

oh they are beautiful and bring back so many memories of childhood, thank you so much.

2 - Bridge st - my Nana lived here many moons ago

sorry the fourth is the close - here are the gardens that lead up to ST Mary's church
( I was born in SW)

the third pic is The Old Sun Inn, has some of the best pargetting in England, the fourth is

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JD'S 'Liz Truss' Moment 🫤

Great to be out with Katy Loudon and the SNP team in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse today.

Excellent local market and some lovely conversations appreciating our dear colleague Christina McKelvie.