🔥 THIS IS HUGE! Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger. Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.

Giving the FCA additional responsibilities is deeply concerning given its chequered regulatory record. We need to be honest about past failures before expanding its powers further. #FinancialRegulation #Accountability

Absolute bullshit, sponsored by Big Oil. America heading back to the dark ages. literally.

Sounds familiar.

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Urgent review ordered into foreign influence in UK politics.

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“People from Wick have migrated all over the world and there is a pillar at the east end of town, on a cliff overlooking the harbour, bearing the names of the cities in which they have eventually settled.”

There's a word for selling political influence for cash... (sadly Reform aren't the first to do so) Via Private Eye

It wasn’t a life altering event, but one child’s words left a lasting imprint – Bylines Scotland Xmas series by writer and editor Ian Kinsey – 21 December

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Bylines Scotland is running stories written by members of our team about what Christmas means to them – writer Tomasz Orynski

The government is announcing a raft of animal welfare measures that include a ban on trail hunting, claiming they're just a smokescreen that masks the hunting of real animals. Chris Packam talks to Good Morning Britain 👏

Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0

Two Palestine Action activists on hunger strike while in prison have been taken to hospital 🚨

As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than your fair share, even when it harms others. In 2025, we saw that everywhere. youtu.be/V_5MAVyR1JY?...

Give the sprouts a quick shoogle and leave them on the simmer. Nearly there. #BylinesScotlandCookery

Bylines Scotland is running stories written by members of our team about what Christmas means to them – writer Tomasz Orynski

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The House of Lords fought hard to dilute parts of Labour’s Employment Rights Bill – but the core reforms survived. From sick pay to fire-and-rehire, the landscape is about to change dramatically. Stephen McNair reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/employment/l...

More than meets the eye: sex, gender and dangerous women

The Government will today unveil its long-awaited Animal Welfare Strategy which sets out a raft of policies to improve the lives of pets and animals on farms and in the wild 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Worth re-reading:

#GVerse SNL completely DESTROYED #Shit4Brains for hiding the Epstein files. This is amazing. Check it out!

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via @theguardian.com

It wasn’t a life altering event, but one child’s words left a lasting imprint – Bylines Scotland Xmas series by writer and editor Ian Kinsey – 21 December

The UK’s toxic new asylum and migrant policy A former child refugee looks at how the new UK asylum and migrant policy would have hindered her family’s integration into UK society | Magdalena Williams @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk

“Minor rampage”

This is not transparency. #EpsteinFiles

Trump targets the BBC from across the Atlantic. Liz Truss is cited as a legal authority. Nigel Farage wins a Commons question slot – and doesn’t show up. Pecksniff’s Diary has the details. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...

“In the UK and similar nations, young adults grapple with skyrocketing housing costs – average home prices now exceed £300,000 – coupled with stagnant wages and gig-economy instability.”

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Good times!!!

KIMMEL: “Maybe we’ll get lucky and in a few years he’ll leave us for a younger, hotter country.” @jimmykimmel.com

Police seize almost £14m in drugs across Scotland ahead of Christmas

Bylines Scotland is running stories written by members of our team about what Christmas means to them – writer and Editor-in-Chief Patricia Dos Santos Paton

Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit? – Byline Times

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