Garry Nicoll

Thank you for the explanation in terms that I understand, and agree with 🙂

Squidward Tentacles!

Is it smart politics though? It exposes the SNP's 'fixed budget' myth.

If anyone has any sense of the history of why the Act of Union happened they should be very, very unfuckingcomfortable with this turn of events.

Trump's attack can rescue the BBC The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom

Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

I think now would be the ideal time for Scottish Labour to stick 2 fingers up to the UK leadership and adopt their own policies.

Animal testing to be phased out faster as UK unveils roadmap for alternative methods New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years.

Buried news of the day IMO

"Government vows to phase out animal tests as alternative methods come on stream with new strategy welcomed as ‘ambitious’ and ‘timely’ by animal welfare & life sciences organisations."

Plus new £75 million funding to bring forward new testing methods for health products

Can't believe you have left us hanging and not said where bus 10792 went!

I think this is currently the no 1 problem with social media, the number of people reacting to quotes from a speech/article/news item without any further research.

You probably think taking quotes of social media is the same as reading a speech in its entirety

Important to be clear here that the proposed homes wouldn't mean demolishing the 18th century garden - it's just that they might possibly be visible from it. What appallingly selfish behaviour.

Your daily reminder….. what a concept!

Polanski is being disingenuous. The white poppy is sold by the Peace Pledge Union, a strictly pacifist group. Pacifism is opposed to the existence of armed forces, and thus Green Party defence policy.

Andrew Lownie wrote an explosive book about Prince Andrew

Then came the backlash.

Legal threats. Journalists were told they’d lose Palace access if they spoke to him

Anonymous social media accounts accused Lownie of visiting sex workers.

This is how ‘the Firm’ works youtu.be/OJHaVsDVv-c?...

Distraction, and this new rubbish being spun that he’s protecting his family’s mental health! What about the victims mental health, a woman died, they need the truth and justice.

I think today is worse. I was born mid 60’s and age 40 til I realised how bigoted my views were. Seems dumb now but, I would use paki or chinky & not think it racist. Not defending it, it was wrong & racist but partly unintentional using language common on TV at the time. Today, there’s no excuse.

How many prisoners are released by mistake? Politicians and the public have reacted with fury after it emerged a second and third prisoner had been released in error from HMP Wandsworth - but it's not as rare as some might think.

Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government).

It just doesn't normally make the news

news.sky.com/story/how-ma...

EU rejoin is a *current* Lib Dem policy and one that we ran on in 2024. Simply announcing it isn't an option for the UK. We don't get to tell the EU that we're rejoining without years of prior steps. It will need a careful pathway, such as the one set out below, to make it a reality.

Excellent photo, can’t wait for the nostalgic recreated version when they are 21!

Train hero who saved passengers during attack named The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.

What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day

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

If you are reading it on the loo, do you still follow the steps in the same order?

'Heroic' train worker 'critical but stable' after knife attack, says transport secretary After seeing CCTV, the police say the worker's actions

Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

A yellow warning sign on a beach reads “KEEP OUT – SEWAGE CONTAMINATED WATER. EXPOSURE MAY CAUSE ILLNESS.” Waves crash near a pier in the background. Overlaid text says: “These Scottish beaches were officially rated ‘excellent’. But they were polluted with human and animal waste.”

"In the build up to the 2026 election we need to see all parties commit to full transparency about the scale of pollution in Scotland"
theferret.scot/scott...

Nigel Farage says this summer’s Raise the Colours movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. Our reporters in five cities had a look and that’s not what we found.

Isn’t it time for him to face justice?

Having posts prioritised by algorithm is what they do on twitter and Facebook and is one of the reasons we left. If you foist it on us here, it will not be popular.

Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king.

Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy.

Long, long overdue.

On #WorldDayForAnimalsInLaboratories, please take action with rescued laboratory dog Betsy and @mrrickygervais.bsky.social.

Ask your MP to sign Parliament #EDM187, for a science hearing to stop the false claims about human medicine which fund cruel animal tests: forlifeonearth.eaction.online

#Dogs

'it ended up a really good deal for developers and less of a good deal for the taxpayer, and more broadly, for the Scottish economy, Scottish businesses, Scottish workers'

www.heraldscotland.com/news...

@vickyallan.bsky.social

Top: bear and rabbit are watching a scary movie and having snacks. Bear asks “do plants have ghosts?” Rabbit replies “no, I don’t think so. Why” Bottom: bear says “that’s good. Bc a lot of them have died in my house”