Edward Harkins

Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly.

Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it

Many the slip twixt the cup and the lip?

Something almost bitterly melancholic in this little tale of our times. At least a bookshop is preferable to the innumerable & unmemorable coffee shops or pub diners that now occupy so many ex bank premises.

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

The UK just got a bit smaller today: ethically, morally and in its values. As it embraces the expansion of performative cruelty as govt policy. What a cowardly, craven, unprincipled lot the current politicians are who make up this Labour Govt are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

China moving forward on sustainable energy, Trump & the fossil lobby move USA backwards.

Loathsome people

Right now UK is pretty much running the electrical grid on renewables and Nuclear.

"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage.

So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.

Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
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The Naked Truth.

Petition to 'uphold democracy' on assisted dying soars to 80,000 signatures EXCLUSIVE: Terminally ill mum Sophie Blake says 'scrutiny must never become sabotage'.

The message is catching on.

The House of Lords set the #AssistedDyingBill up to fail.

A small number of opposed peers deliberately ran down on the clock.

This is not the role of the Lords.

A real tragedy for terminally ill people and their families.

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Yet more evidence that Reform's support has topped out

‘Cultural vandalism’: major arts hub evicted by council’s property company Tenants like Glasgow Print Studio and Glasgow Media Access Centre have less than 28 days to leave Trongate 103

Creation of the property business entity City Property Glasgow was, & remains, a significantly regressive & regrettable point in Glasgow's Civic history. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/trongate-103...

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

It’s fantastically British that Lloyds of London is seemingly instrumental to the likely impending closure of tanker shipments out of the Gulf but that the UK closed down its only gas storage site at Rough in 2021. Two of our six remaining oil refineries also closed last year.

Been many upheld complaints against BBC Scotland bias on matters Scottish. But a lot of complaints are, understandably, spontaneous or reactive anger, not formally submitted. Collection of *factual* responses here is almost shocking. Something awry at #bbcscotland?

Andrew Neil misled BBC viewers with 'false' literacy statistic- Ofcom Andrew Neil misled viewers with false statistic about literacy among Scottish primary school children in a serious breach of the broadcasting code, Ofcom has ruled. The BBC interviewer has rejected th...

BBC presenter Andrew Neil misled viewers in the run-up to the May 2017 general election, when he claimed that one-in-five Scottish primary school children leave school “functionally illiterate". This was false and, in 2019, Ofcom ruled it was a serious breach of the broadcasting code.

A useful record of Farage’s failure and his inability to cope with it. A cheat and a very bad loser who would happily trash democracy to get the result he wants. And then remove our rights to stop us holding him to account.
Such a corrupt, egomaniacal liar should have no hope of getting power.

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

What Kenmure Street reveals about who we are As Glasgow Film Festival opens with Everyone to Kenmure Street, Lucy Butters asks what Scotland’s protests say about our culture

As Glasgow Film Festival opens with Everyone to Kenmure Street, Lucy Butters asks what Scotland’s protests say about our culture | Lucy Butters

What. Utter. Sh*te. Look out England. You're in for the same extreme negative reporting by the establishment and their media pals that we've had in Scotland for decades. No straw is too low for them to grasp, nor barrel so deep to scrape.

For CNN, a Change in Ownership Means a Suddenly Uncertain Future

There's nothing "uncertain" about it. Larry Ellison is building an autocrat-friendly propaganda machine and whatever shaky journalism originated from this place will soon be dead.

'It's not right that a small group of unelected politicians can block the #AssistedDyingBill by proposing over 1,200 amendments... In a democratic society in 2026, it's unbelievable that peers are going to cause this bill to fail.' Our Assisted Dying Campaigner @nathan-stilwell.bsky.social ⬇️

Lord Harper, in his ✨80th✨ speech on the assisted dying debate, having spoken for two and a half HOURS during Committee Stage, claims there's no filibustering [to which the House of Lords groans].

Baroness Murphy quips: "Lord Harper is just beginning his first filibuster now!"

It's been remarkable to observe the rigorous, evidence-based debate led by Jersey’s policymakers, particularly having contributed to earlier evidence sessions. A landmark moment for compassion and personal autonomy at the end of life.

High Court upholds acquittal for Quran burning Hamit Coskun, who burned a Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in London, has had his acquittal for religiously motivated harassment, alarm or distress upheld by the High Court. Humanists UK welcomes th...

In a free society, the right to protest religious ideas, however provocatively, should not be a matter for the criminal courts. This case was a divisive distraction that the CPS should not have pursued. This ruling provides the legal finality we need to move forward.

We must agree to disagree 🙂. Next test of Starmer's decision (his?) to block Burnham will be the fallout if Burnham wins big in coming Mayoral elections. If Burnham does so win: a) Starmer will claim I was right, we won the bigger election; b) Burnham will claim I would've won G&D. A mess, ongoing.

Not to be too much a pedant but I do think there's much to extrapolate from G&D. It's all part of a (now decades long?) process of people's alienation from & now detestation of Westminster & all that goes with it. As the man nearly said, 'It's the system stupid'?

Aye, right enough the noo...