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No Kings protest live updates: millions march against Trump in nationwide day of protest Democratic lawmakers including Bernie Sanders, Raphael Warnock, Adam Schiff, Cory Booker and Chuck Schumer among protesters

#NoKings - Millions march against #Trump in nationwide day of protest.
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Not surprisingly, Labour really, really, does not want to discuss how Labour Together undermined Corbyn and its leaders led the campaign that installed Starmer as leader. Lots more in this story yet to run...

An astonishingly large crowd!
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Nigel Farage’s partner embroiled in Brussels fraud investigation Laure Ferrari’s Eurosceptic group was at the centre of fraud scandal that led to ongoing criminal case

Farage partner involved in fraud investigation
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It’s not just the disgusting misinformation the UK mainstream media spew about trans people, it’s also about what they DON’T talk about!

100K people attend London Trans Pride and it’s *crickets*

100K people attend a Tommy Robinson hate rally and it’s all over the front pages! 😖

It’s blatant bias!

📢 Children and Young People Voices report about their pandemic experiences has been released today.

We would be interested in hearing your views. There is a chapter on Clinically Vulnerable families.

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PM condemns ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally that ‘sent shiver’ through communities Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Saturday’s “Unite the Kingdom” demonstration in central London, saying it has left people feeling “more scared than they were before”. Between 110,000 and 150,000 people...

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Saturday’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ demonstration in central London, saying it has left people feeling ‘more scared than they were before’

Until today, I hadn't realised that Middle Earth could be reached via Speirs Wharf on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow!

#glasgow #glasgowtoday #keepglasgowweird #middleearth #tolkein #lordoftherings #speirswharf #portdundas #sign

The stunning Welsh hikes named in the top 10 in the UK Two stunning Welsh hikes have been revealed in a list of the top 10 hikes in the UK. New research by outdoor specialists Blacks analysed average user rating and Google search popularity, to compile th...

New research has revealed two stunning Welsh hikes in a list of the top 10 hikes in the UK

Why do Scots think crime is just as high when it has fallen by half? Professor John Robertson OBA From Safer Communities and Justice Statistics Monthly Data Report: July 2025 published today, some key points getting no media attention: Public perception of…

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Our 2 #LochArkaig osprey chicks were measured and ringed by @btoscotland.bsky.social yesterday and deemed to be boys! We are looking for name suggestions so tell us what you think before Sunday when we will choose. #ArkaigOsprey Watch the livestream 👉 buff.ly/G60OR4f

JK Rowling called our newspaper 'anti-woman'. Here's my response THIS week JK Rowling launched an attack on The National, describing us as an "anti-woman newspaper" ...

Rowling has chosen to respond to language she did not like (due to its perceived sympathy towards trans people) by launching an intellectually lazy attack on a newspaper, primarily staffed by women, with a strong track record on reporting on feminist issues.

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Figure showing number of deaths averted due to vaccines from 1974-2024

Vaccines have literally saved more than 150 million lives over the last 50 years and prevented much more morbidity but hold up guys somebody with a brain worm knows better

An arch in a wall, linking one part to the garden to another - a part of the garden in shade to a part of the garden still in sun. A pink sphere hangs in mid-air between the two gardens

A view down the dark and green green of a lane between ornamental hedges. A pink sphere mysterious hangs in mid-air between the hedges.

Stroll in the ornamental garden. Somebody had lost/left a pink balloon, and I had a lot of fun throwing it in the air and making it an alien shape in front of English country garden loveliness.

Surprisingly tricky to get the balloon to go where I wanted. Very uncooperative.

In 2016, 62% of Scots voted to remain in the EU. hopefully England will catch up soon 🤔

'Where's the dignity?': SNP minister hits out at Labour's 'damaging' welfare cuts

EXCL: A Scottish Government minister has hit out at the UK Government's 'damaging' approach to welfare cuts as she called on Labour to 'follow our lead'

🗣️ 'In Scotland, we're very proud that we support the social model when it comes to addressing disabled people'

The SNP. Always on Scotland's side.

Quick - call Reform's new DOGE team to investigate this shocking waste of council money by... er... Reform councillors standing down straight after being elected.

Disabled people have been warning that the “embrace mass covid reinfections” narrative was first pushed by anti vax right wing libertarians, now they’ve consolidated power. They are against disease mitigation and have pushed anti mitigation ideas mainstream.

Kennedy's new CDC panel includes members who have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

Meanwhile, 'U.S. Health Secretary RFK Jr. named 8 new vaccine policy advisers, including a scientist who researched mRNA vaccine technology and criticised COVID-19 vaccines, a critic of pandemic-era lockdowns, and a professor of operations management.'
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Despite Covid surge, Los Angeles mayor considers mask ban at protests Announcement comes in response to pro-Palestinian protest at synagogue that made global headlines

As Trump demands that people in masks at protests be arrested, just a reminder that Mayor Karen Bass, nominally a Democrat, floated a mask ban at protests as recently as last year.

There’s really no anti-authoritarian party.

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After Norway, Scotland is Europe's largest energy exporter. Of course the EU would want us!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 #RejoinEU #ScottishIndependence

"They had no relevant expertise and were urgently seeking answers to some basic questions"

The Inquiry heard evidence that the consultants being paid millions by the Government didn't have a basic understanding of how testing worked.

Unless they were born in 2021, they lived through his first presidency. They lived through the Muslim ban, the “bad hombres”, the “very fine” Nazis, the Wall fiasco, how he behaved on Covid, mocking disabled people. They saw that and wanted more. They DID vote for this.

A vote for Reform is not a vote for anything new, disruptive, or ground changing. It's not a vote for working class representation. It's a vote for Tories who left the Tory party because it wasn't cruel and nasty enough.

Polish academic knows thsat Scotland is leading the way in East Asian boom but ‘Scottish’ media to busy with other trivia Professor John Robertson OBA In East Asia Forum, by Tomasz Kominski of the University of Lodz, in July 2024, but nowhere in the ‘Scottish’ media at the time, I feel sure, the above, and…

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So glad to see that cursive writing isn't a lost skill after all.

#WestAdams

Poster asking to look at the UK the other way around, with England governed by Scotland.

I see that some southern-based people are struggling with the idea that Scotland may be a colony of England. It may help if they try looking at things the other way around . .

This and also we still have guidance in place for handwashing only for a predominantly airborne virus #COVIDisairborne 🧵

Poster bearing the text - Things that every journalist in the UK should know by now: Wales is not part of England. Northern Ireland is not part of England. Scotland is not part of England. The UK is not England. England is not the UK.

Things that every journalist in the UK should know by now: Wales is not part of England. Northern Ireland is not part of England. Scotland is not part of England. The UK is not England. England is not the UK.