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Wes Streeting is right...

Wes Streeting is right… Israel is committing war crimes against Palestinians.

What is damning is that @wesstreeting-mp.bsky.social is part of a government that has continued business as usual with Israel despite its war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

And so did Edinburgh's milkmen! No, I didn't come across Sean Connery when he was one of them, but I'll never forget Jimmie the milkman and Alfie the horse as they made their way up the street. Sometimes got to climb up on the wooden seat and hold Alfie's reins. Magic.

Fine packaging and I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but they might just fall into the ultra ultra processed category?

Open Letter to every Edinburgh City Councillor ...
Oppose AI Data Centres In Edinburgh
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A new exhibition has opened in the #ArtAndDesignLibrary for the month of February - 'Shift' is an exhibition of contemporary paintings by Paradigms, a group of four Edinburgh-based women artists at Central Library
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Happy birthday to Mr Glass, a man of principles. And I think I'd sell my soul to be able to play piano, and to play this. So beautiful. I'd never want to do anything else.

Do you get it now?

Pep Guardiola gives passionate speech in support of Palestinian children ​​​​​​​Pep Guardiola has given a passionate speech in support of Palestinian children and called for action.

Pep Guardiola gives passionate speech in support of Palestinian children

Reports today say approving the UK’s biggest untapped oil field could risk breaching international law, as profits would flow to a company linked to the occupied West Bank.

This is an issue The Ferret has reported on since 2022. Our key investigations 👇🧵

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Trying to imagine the sugar boiling to a point where you can (and would dare try to) blow it like bladders...Thinking it might end in a visit to A&E.

You lay out his grotesqueness and failings, but you end by saying we can all take comfort in his weakness, which is just not true. Look over his shoulder and there's no comfort to be had in seeing the people who work him and who await the time when they'll step into his shoes.

'We are taking the sign out of the window'. It really is a great speech. @ukgovernment.bsky.social must take note and find some courage to join him, loud and clear.

Girls football team win tiny plastic cup as boys take home full-size trophy The cup paled into comparison to the grand old trophy presented to the winning boys football team.

We've still got some way to go...'BBC News - Are we not good enough? Girls football team win tiny plastic cup as boys get full-size trophy'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To be fair, who'd want the job of dusting the millennium clock? It'd be on a par with painting the Forth Bridge 🙀!

Not a great loss though, huh?

I'm there a few times a week and never get tired of the look of it, the animalistic profile.

Just seeing those tables with Reform coming second should cover Labour in shame. They've blown all the optimism of Scots who supported them in the UK election. No one expected miracles, but neither did they expect this shambles.

Hey, great choices Alasdair. I don't know a lot about classical music but I listen to radio 3 in the morning instead of news (absorb that everywhere else). I liked the way they linked the music with the locations this morning, moving from current to past, from classical to Mexican to blues.

Listening to #BBCRadio3 this morning has been fantastic. Great show, great range of music linked to Dallas and Fort Worth, past and present. Insightful interviews with fine people. Such a counterbalance to political news of the USA. Gives hope that the good people might just win out.

Yes it is quite an admission but it is true. I'm a vegetarian who rarely eats anything with eggs, and as a kid I just hated the look of the stuff. No salad cream in my house either (it was maybe a bit too fancy for my parents). Pickled onion crisps are fine though 😃

Thanks, and yes I know it's not easily converted, but they still keep giving planning approval for more. The city will be left with all these buildings in the heart of local communities that are forever-useless to those seeking housing. All about money.

Yet more student flats...the Southside is suffocating in them. It says they will include 57 affordable homes but they don't say the number of student flats so there's no information on the scale of the building.
And how much is going to be demolished and what parts of the building kept?

The word 'scary' certainly resonates with me. But I've never eaten any kind of mayo so who knows, the pickled onion element might be a genius addition. Hope you bought it in bulk for your likely many future dinner parties, no matter what the menu. 🙂

That's exactly what Starmer is doing. His incompetence, and lack of any connection to the public, mirrors the way the Democrats handed the USA to Trump. But Starmer, as an apparently top legal mind (?), hasn't got Biden's excuses. He's letting so many, many people down.

Oh look, a leader with a backbone…

Spanish PM Sánchez has stated that Spain will neither recognize the govt of Nicolás Maduro nor support any U.S. military intervention in Venezuela, warning that such action would violate international law and endanger regional stability.

'Like Mark Anthony minus the toga and brains, he struts and preens, cries havoc! and lets slip the dogs of war' - good piece. Now time for Starmer and others to stop their lapdog ways and speak out.

I remember talking to a friend who experienced that crush, her saying how frightening the loss of control was, unable to move. She ended up squeezed beside a mobile food van with revellers clambering over it chucking slices of meat across the crowds... I was at home in bed🙏.

'Come to Edinburgh and get smashed' - great quote in a great thread from Andy. My whinge for the day is that I ask the media to stop regurgitating the line about how many millions of pounds it brings to the city, and instead tell us where the money goes, specifically to benefit local communities.