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Holy shit! As an oceanographer who's spent nearly 3 years at sea, this is terrifying.

BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem
Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩

Did I miss the meeting where casual racism was decided on as forming the centre ground in UK politics? We get more like America every fricking day!

Letter of the day (in the Times)

‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’ by Ian Fraser. New paperback edition published in 2024.

This revised and updated paperback edition of my book Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain was published in 2024 and is available from:

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Deep inside Russia, one small town honours its Scottish heritage A mulberry tree planted two centuries ago in the Shotlandka colony, in the Caucasus, is a symbol of the legacy left by missionaries from Scotland

Deep inside Russia, one small town honours its Scottish heritage

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“We have had the police knocking on every door,” said a dog walker and resident of Dean, as a helicopter buzzed overhead. “They wanted the names of everybody living there and details of their social media. I know several people refused. We asked them if they were protecting us, or Vance. At least they were honest and said it is for him and that it will all be passed on to the American security people.”

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Last page of his will and testament

This is my will and my final message. If these words of mine reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. Peace be upon you, and the mercy and blessings of Allah. Allah knows that I exerted every effort and strength I had to be a support and a voice for my people, from the moment I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would prolong my life until I could return with my family and loved ones to our original hometown, the occupied Ascalon "Majdal." But Allah's will prevailed, and His decree was fulfilled.

Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif’s last tweet is his last will and testament, posted by his friend after he was murdered for telling the truth for 22 months.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

My aim as always on holiday is to speak as little English as possible, so far I have conducted all my business in French. Englishman on next table "croissant please"... The level of effort is off the scale...

I want to live in a Scotland where no child grows up in poverty.

Child poverty is falling in Scotland, because we’re choosing to act.

But only with the powers of independence, we can transform our society and end child poverty for good.

My column in today’s Daily Record. 👇

Diana Magnay: "It was a direct hit on their broadcast tent outside al Shifa hospital.. the whole journalistic community are outraged.. his death & that of his colleagues adds to the huge number of journalists killed.."

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

This week's #FullScottish is available to watch on catch-up now.

The t-shirt of this elderly lady arrested yesterday reads ‘A woman’s place is in the resistance’ and I imagine her and other women there as Greenham peace camp veterans, well used to being harassed and dragged away by Thatcher’s security forces. Four decades on, protesting for same principles.

This week's #FullScottish is available to watch on catch-up now.

From Private Eye - I know a few on here will be able to relate to this (and not just council workers).

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

Chancellor could learn from new play’s about banking’s de... Make It Happen satirises the RBS collapse of 2008. It’s too close to real life for comfort

When Tony Blair and Gordon Brown “liberated” banks such as RBS/NatWest in 1997-2008, one problem was they failed grasp that some of the bank bosses in whom they were placing their faith were rank amateurs and hubristic idiots.

My review of Make It Happen in today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Full Scottish - 10/08/2025 - Broadcasting Scotland On this week's Full Scottish, Brian Liddy and guests, Maureen Watt and William Duguid discuss the weeks top Scottish and international news

Tune in at 12:00 midday for this week's #FullScottish, with Brian Liddy, Maureen Watt and @williamduguid1.bsky.social discussing the weeks Scottish and international news, including #Ukraine, #Gaza, #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki, education and child poverty

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Uttarakhand Cloudburst: 4 Dead, Over 50 Missing as Monster Landslide Wipes Out Village, Cuts Off Gangotri Dham A catastrophic cloudburst triggered a massive landslide in Uttarakhand’s Dharali village on Tuesday afternoon, leaving at least four people dead and more than

🚨#BREAKING | At least 4 dead, 50+ missing in a massive Uttarakhand landslide triggered by a cloudburst near Gangotri. Rescue operations are underway amid heavy rain.

Details Here: theheadliner.in/india-news/u...

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Congratulations to all students in Scotland on their achievements on #ResultsDay

#ScotGov say that the poverty-related attainment gap has also narrowed at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher level over the 2024-25 academic year, according to #SQA results data.

Julia 1984 presented by Within Theatre at @summerhallarts.bsky.social.

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Over 100 journalists demand 'immediate and unsupervised' foreign media access into Gaza Signatories are calling on both Israel and Hamas to allow foreign journalists into Gaza to report independently on the war, something they have been barred from doing since the conflict started in 202...

"Signatories include Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford, broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour and chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, as well as iconic war photographer Don McCullin."

Fallen Angel
Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge
19-23 August. 8.45pm
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