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NEW: House passes release of the Epstein files. So far it's unanimous

LIVE: Labour unveil major crackdown on refugees All the updates as MPs prepare to debate Labour's controversial asylum reforms

www.thenational.scot/news/2562711...
Plans now published ahead of speech: horrendous

As of 4 hours ago , 396 Labour MPs had not.

'Cultural vandalism' protests as musicians condemn loss of Radio Scotland shows Singers and musicians protest after plug is pulled on shows hosted by Iain Anderson, Billy Sloan, Roddy Hart and Natasha Raskin Sharp.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562739...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

On Monday, Bain drew the focus back to victims, reassuring them: "I understand sexual abuse inflicted upon women and children to be the single greatest challenge our justice system faces. Victims should feel able to speak out [in court] without further fear"

The Age of Lies “One thing that’s been interesting this entire campaign season to watch is that people that say facts are facts. They’re not really facts. It’s kind of like looking at ratin…

The Post-Truth era, normally assigned to 2016 had its origins in the independence referendum of 2014 | The Age of Lies #PostTruth #Brexit #Trump bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/16/t...

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Supreme Court ruling reignites debate over Scotland’s rape shield laws The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Scotland’s rape shield laws has sparked fears of appeals and delays, raising difficult questions about…

"But let’s not allow the ruling to feed into the illusion that we are now living in a world in which women have the upper hand." My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column on the Supreme Court judgement on the application of Scotland's rape shield laws. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/hol...

The Blues

Text of Marie Howe’s poem What the Living Do, which reads Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there. And the Drano won't work but smells dangerous, and the crusty dishes have piled up waiting for the plumber I still haven't called. This is the everyday we spoke of. It's winter again: the sky's a deep, headstrong blue, and the sunlight pours through the open living-room windows because the heat's on too high in here and I can't turn it off. For weeks now, driving, or dropping a bag of groceries in the street, the bag breaking, I've been thinking: This is what the living do. And yesterday, hurrying along those wobbly bricks in the Cambridge sidewalk, spilling my coffee down my wrist and sleeve, I thought it again, and again later, when buying a hairbrush: this is it. Parking. Slamming the car door shut in the cold. What you called that yearning. What you finally gave up. We want the spring to come and the winter to pass. We want whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kiss-we want more and more and then more of it. But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

Walking in low winter sun, dazzled in both senses: beauty & blinding feels related to the impossible act of seeing ourselves head on, how often insight arrives aslant, the sharp clarifying prism of encountering self as stranger, a breathtaking tenderness Marie Howe articulates In What The Living Do

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A bit of good news

Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer

Wonderful and moving tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social to Rachel Cooke, the brilliant Observer journalist who also frequently lit up the pages of the Guardian Weekly, who has died at the age of 56.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.

Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scotland’s then FM N Sturgeon withdrew from that Edinburgh conference when Bannon was platformed citing she did not want to be part of any process that risked legitimising far right or racist views. Despite this or because of it perhaps,he was given an ‘free speech’ platform by several journalists

Spot on

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Every child deserves the magic of books. ✨📚 But for too many families this winter, books will feel like a luxury they can't afford.

Donate to our Christmas Appeal today to give the magic of books to children and families accessing food banks this festive season. 🎄

Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...

🚨 NEW Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as a Shield for Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Bannon, who offered to help him “stave off" the #MeToo movement in return for support

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

Remembering when Scotland’s then FM pulled out of a BBC media conference that belatedly platformed Bannon because she ‘would not be part of a process that risked legitimising far right or racist views. She was criticised but others chose to platform him ( and the rest is history)

Top KC urges review after Supreme Court ruling on rape trial laws A high profile advocate who claims laws to protect rape victims have been violating the  right to a fair trial in Scotland has called for the…

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social story on the fall-out from the Supreme Court ruling on the rape shield provisions. Thomas Ross KC calls for a retired SC judge to examine an expected spike in potential miscarriage of justice cases. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562273...

Blimey. Major new split in Your Party. Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain -who is secretary of the Your Party company - says he's quitting due to "persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good."

Murray Foote ‘No shit Sherlock’ . The point being if Labour MPs do not give a fuck about Holyrood they will not give a fuck about the people of Scotland as witness the behaviour of the SoS and his predecessor

NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.

They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.

NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

That might explain why a lawyer ( often referenced by various GC groups) who was previously described as a ‘Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange’ was at pains recently to distance himself

The Charity Commission has just opened an investigation into the hideous transphobic lobbyists at Policy Exchange. 👇

Remember when our then FM N Sturgeon pulled out of a BBC media conference to avoid ‘legitimising far right or racist views’ and then the editor of the Holyrood Parliamentary magazine gave him a ‘We’re the right side of History’ interview