And of course Trump’s kidnap of 🇻🇪 Venezuela’s president won’t be helping with the coordination of the country’s emergency response following yesterday’s 7.5 earthquake. As usual it’ll be those with the least who will be affected the most.

Thomas Kerr’s behaviour today in Parliament shows you exactly where his concern lies. This is all a big joke to him. I have never had the displeasure of encountering any other person so ill-informed and ill-suited to public service than Thomas Kerr.

Good rule of thumb walking on asphalt is whatever the temperature is outside the pavement will be 20 degrees warmer.

I would add it doesn't matter if YOU can walk barefoot, it may be too hot for your canine companion. dogchart.com/dog-walking-...

🐾 Please don’t be taking your dog out for a walk on the pavement in this heat. Their pads can be easily burned. Walk them very early in the morning or late at night when heat drops. ⚠️ If it is too hot for you to walk barefoot on the pavement then it’s too hot for them.

This truly is a shocking miscarriage of justice.

🐾 Please don’t be taking your dog out for a walk on the pavement in this heat. Their pads can be easily burned. Walk them very early in the morning or late at night when heat drops. ⚠️ If it is too hot for you to walk barefoot on the pavement then it’s too hot for them.

Look, I know it's easy to have a pop at Starmer, but that was an incredibly honourable resignation he was forced into kicking & screaming, & his words that everyone who disagreed with him was morally bankrupt & his appeasement of fascists & transphobes was for the good of the country was v. moving

In a surprise to absolutely no one, former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of 18 charges including rape and sexual assault. I hope his survivors get the justice they deserve. He’s now been remanded in custody. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Always catches you off guard when you see how old they are getting.

Glasgow is set to be formally twinned with Boston, it has been announced, as thousands of Scotland fans descend on the US city for the World Cup. #NoScotlandNoParty www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

This arrogance on display for all to see. We have eyes, we can see what is happening and this genocide is being documented like none before yet we still sit back and watch and Starmer still sells Israel weapons and makes excuses.

Scotland fans are singing their wee hearts out! Let’s do this Dykes! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #SCOMAR

I don’t normally comment on sentences but this sentence is pitiful for someone with this history and manner of offending. Ex-lawyer jailed for sending threatening letter to lord advocate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Those who engage in mental gymnastics to justify their hate of asylum seekers and immigrants while claiming to be Christian. Pick up the Bible once in a while.

Glasgow is set to be formally twinned with Boston, it has been announced, as thousands of Scotland fans descend on the US city for the World Cup. #NoScotlandNoParty www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

unfortunately it’s mitchell and butler so they’re not going to give a fuck but it irks me so much that there were literal programmes made about a sycamore tree and this was a 500 year old oak tree which mattered far more than something that is ten a penny news.sky.com/story/toby-c...

Mae'r mudiad yn parhau i dyfu 💚 We're delighted to be welcoming so many new members to the movement 🏴 If you'd like to help shape Wales' future too, join us 👉 partyof.wales/join

BREAKING: DOJ opens a criminal investigation into Gavin Newsom. After Comey, Letitia James, Mark Kelly, and others, the pattern is clear: investigate critics, pardon loyalists. That’s not democracy. That’s autocracy.

Long thread alert 🧵 1. We've just launched the Free Movement Toolkit: four new tools designed to make immigration law research faster and more practical for lawyers, caseworkers, and anyone working in the sector.

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸 and support Palestine Action.

Rowling has escalated to directly boosting anti trans slurs.

I mean it tracks. They don’t consider themselves bound by international law.

Ya dancer! ⚽️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1 🇭🇹 0 #SCOHAI

Was happy to get my @plaidcymru.bsky.social membership card today! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🩵 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I've called on the UK government to step up to its legal and moral obligation to stop ALL arms sales and military support to Israel. This is a crucial step towards accountability and justice. #StopArmingIsrael www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable. Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities. Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it.

10 years ago today, our community suffered an unthinkable tragedy at Pulse Night Club, when we lost 49 beautiful souls during the night club’s Latin night. Gun violence is an LGBTQ+ issue.

EU Commission says Ukraine is exempt from new EU "safe country of origin" list for asylum claims, unlike other accession candidates and seven other countries, due to lack of safety in Ukraine - so asylum claims by Ukrainians will *not* be fast tracked with a rebuttable presumption they're unfounded

PRIDE IS YEAR ROUND.

The EU's asylum pact applies from today - here's a reminder of my blog posts on this legislation from when it was agreed 1/ The new 'qualification regulation' - on the definition of 'refugee' and 'subsidiary protection' - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-...

Where is the COBRA meeting?

131 and counting. My email to my MP got a response; did yours? edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

There are people all across Belfast helping relocate people, get them food, clothes, meds and more. You will likely never hear about them on the news. But they are many. And *they* are Belfast.

Incredible news! Weeks after the new Prime Minister Péter Magyar took office, the mayor of Budapest, Mayor Gergely Karácsony, has had his charges dropped for illegally celebrating Pride month in his city. It appears changes are coming to Hungary. Subscribe to support our journalism.

horrifying

Following yesterday’s shameless violence and disorder in Glasgow I have written to Neil Gray MSP The CabSec for Justice.

Following yesterday’s shameless violence and disorder in Glasgow I have written to Neil Gray MSP The CabSec for Justice.

In July, Broadcasting Scotland will be reporting from Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina to commemorate the 1995 #SrebrenicaGenocide. Many survivors of the Bosnian war came to Scotland as refugees after their homes were overrun and family murdered. We will always stand against racism and hatred!

This sneering is something we are all only too aware of when discussions around Scotland take place. And true to form as is often the case, discussions about us, without us. ITV GMB viewers demand apology after 'anti-Scottish' World Cup comment. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2618061...

Govts hand tax perks to the rich, woodlands is another one. The estate of a couple owning £100m in woodland could inherit £5 tax free, pay half the normal inheritance tax rate on the remaining £95m. Meanwhile the poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Since 1980, under the Thatcherite policies, 2.8m social homes sold, 1.9m in England for £51bn. In 2024, England homes were worth £430bn. Councils didn't receive full sales proceeds, couldn't replenish housing stock. Vital depts closed. Social homes down from 6.8m to 5.4m. Huge housing crisis.

In our Scottish Parliament broadcast earlier, Hannah Mary Goodlad MSP called out the rhetoric of hate and told Reform that there is a history of welcoming and a future of belonging in Scotland.

Equality in law and policy has never meant rigidly treating every person identically in every single circumstance; it’s about equal rights, status and opportunity, which often necessitates the creation and adoption of different measures for people in different situations.

What a charming person. Always thinking about people’s sexual organs is just plain strange.

Watched this Jubilee ‘Surrounded’ video with Dave Ruben. That guy is so out of his depth when he has to back up the bull he vomits out on the daily. The fact he performs for and defends the same MAGA clowns…

Is there no linked critique of UK Government policies' impacts on child poverty throughout the UK? With the Scottish Child Payment contributing to Scotland being the only UK nation where child poverty has been falling, why are these demands only for the ScotGov to do more to mitigate WM policies?

Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally. Kamand Kojouri

I’m Rob, 42 from Glasgow in Scotland and I’m looking to connect more #LGBT+ #LGBT people to connect with.

Was happy to join the leaders of a coalition of 43 civil society organisations, including the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, in writing to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 First Minister John Swinney, calling for urgent action to strengthen human rights protections across Scotland.