The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet. @Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #music #jazz

Trump’s Freedom 250 stage falls apart while dancers rehearse on it — with one piece narrowly missing a performer

Apparently the World Cup is a royal affair, and yet International media has questioned why @johnswinney.bsky.social had to respond to opposition claims that his trip to Massachusetts to watch Scotland play Haiti was a taxpayer-funded “World Cup jolly.” www.politico.com/live-updates...

Bosnia vs. America, on and off the pitch

EU determined to resolve standoff over Bosnia envoy, Kallas says reut.rs/4eU2c7L

Mother! Oh, God, Mother! Blood! Blood!

Burnham is on a collision course with Scotland He claims he wants a new collaborative way of doing politics yet he’s already picked a fight with the Scottish govt with threats to strip power from Holyrood It’s just more of the same domineering crap from Westminster In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

This weekend we head to Bosnia and Herzegovina to report on the 31st anniversary of the #SrebrenicaGenocide and look at life in a country of 4 million people; how it has rebuilt itself since the war ended in 1995 and at what issues Bosnia faces today.

Ach shite. Many moons ago, on the night of the seismic 2011 Scottish elections, I put on a night of political comedy and poetry in Edinburgh Paul v kindly agreed to compere it - and was both terrific and a total gentleman Will be much missed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well, this is awkward...

As the FIFA World Cup continues, Israel murdered another Palestinian footballer in Gaza. 32yo Salim al-Ashqar had just married and the couple was expecting their first child. He was shot by the IDF in Khan Younis. #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine aje.news/azzg3x

🚨BREAKING: In the latest blow to President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, a federal court on Wednesday granted the NAACP’s request to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) implementation of his executive order against mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Even after the Supreme Court upheld a 80+ million dollar verdict against Donald Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, the stupid old fool lacks the good sense and impulse control not to defame her again. What an idiot.

Nigel Farage has gone from claiming he was “skint” in 2017, to owning five mortgage-free homes with his French partner Laure Ferrari. The Reform UK leader has only declared two of the properties to parliament’s register of members’ interests, a serious breach of ethical and legal standards.

⚡️ Zelensky arrives in Ireland as country's EU presidency begins. "And we hope that during Ireland's presidency of the Council of the European Union, we will be able to achieve tangible progress on the path to membership and open all negotiating clusters," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

I'll be joining @broadcastingscotland.scot looking at Bosnia from a Welsh perspective

“John Bull is ignorant of the States; he is probably ignorant of India; but, considering his opportunities, he is far more ignorant of countries nearer his own door…” —Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Foreigner at Home” in MEMORIES & PORTRAITS via @gutenberg.org #C19 www.gutenberg.org/files/30598/...

No matter how far to the right migration policy shifts, it's never enough for those fanning the flames.

This weekend we are heading to Bosnia and Herzegovina to report on the 31st anniversary of the #SrebrenicaGenocide and look at life in a country of 4 million people where the Bosnian football team are still in the World Cup and which has EU accession status. Can we learn something in Scotland?

However, it can say little about whether or not the bill may have an impact, as it is at a pretty early stage of working out if & how it might work.

The government shortlisted two policy options, according to its impact assessment. Option zero: Do nothing Option one: full implementation of all of the measures in the bill. As doing nothing woukd not pursue its goals, it chose to proceed.

This is distinctly dangerous. Labour is officially stating that human rights are dependant upon which group you belong to, and I am not ignoring how they already do that for trans individuals. This absolutely undermines the very principle of human rights. That is one dangerous precedent to set. 4/

Community sponsorship works on a small scale, but to make it a main route, and, again, this is not a "new route", is guaranteed to mean fewer people overall can seek asylum in the UK, especially as Labour has closed such actual safe routes as family reunification in practice. 3/

Let's start with the "new safe routes". This is a rejigged Community Sponsorship Scheme which has been around for a decade. As part of a functioning system it isn't a bad thing, but as a primary route it is highly exclusionary and puts the onus for protection on individuals rather than the state. 2/

So we have the Home Secretary's statement on changes to immigration and asylum, and, despite the attempt to spin it otherwise, they are some of the most regressive measures we have seen. 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...

DEMOCRATS ON OFFENSE Republicans spent years assuming huge parts of the country belonged to them by default. Dems looked at the map and said, “Challenge accepted.” Now they’re running everywhere. And in places that weren’t supposed to be competitive.

"We gotta put a big bed sheet over the Statue of Liberty. It should be a white sheet. And have a point over the top of her head. And two eyeholes. And Instead of a burning torch, she should be holding a burning cross. That would make the Statue of LIB-erty for more acceptable to godly Republicans."

Stephen Miller says the Trump administration will take “a hard look” at banning foreign pregnant women from the country

EU diplomats clash with Trump administration over top Bosnia and Herzegovina post

Breaking News! @publichealthscot.bsky.social have said that they had been aware that an individual in Scotland was tested for Ebola as a precautionary measure. The test result has now been received and is negative.

Labour's anti-asylum measures are the most hostile for a generation and some of the most inhumane across Europe. Not only are they barbarically cruel, they're also unworkable and pointless. These are measures designed to cause harm and grab headlines, nothing else www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

OMG -- there are literally like a dozen people at Trump's fair right now. Get a load of this live shot.

POCAN: Do you know how much we've spent on the war on Iran so far? VOUGHT: We've spent about 30,000,000,000 P: People are saying it's more like $100b V: I'm just telling you what I heard from the Dept of War P: I'm just going to remember June 30, 2026, you're saying $30b is what we spent

"Manchesterism" is the UK's new big thing. Unemployment in Manchester 6.5% Unemployment in Scotland 4.3% Child poverty in Manchester 37% Child poverty in Scotland 21% But Manchester DOES have loads of empty luxury flats. Seems the UK needs less Manchesterism and more ScotGov.

⚡️Massive explosion in Monaco injures Ukrainian family, media reports. According to the French news outlet BFM TV, the blast injured Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev, his partner, and 13-year-old daughter. Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible terrorist attack.

The dissonance between this and Burnham's "it's morning in Manchester" is really striking.

Indeed. Burnham also picked Bangor as the other place to mention, which *checks notes* recently decided to keep its "distance" from Labour in the Senedd and elect all six Bangor Conwy Môn constituency MSs from other parties, including now Plaid Cymru First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth. Erm. Well then.

Not to mention that Dundee - a post-2014 SNP stronghold that has elected two SNP MPs in every UK GE since 2015 and two SNP MSPs at every Holyrood election since 2007 - isn't the best choice of location to point to as somewhere in Scotland that feels distant from Holyrood...

As someone who very strongly believes in thorough reform of local (& regional) govt in Scotland, from powers to structures to local taxation, those are questions for Holyrood. Not necessarily the (presumed) incoming PM, whose party were hammered in Scotland a month-and-a-half ago.

🚨BREAKING: Republican officials including President Donald Trump and anti-voting activists are melting down after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws Monday that allow grace periods for ballots mailed by Election Day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wherever books are sold, but often sold out.

The order of cities by median income is: London Edinburgh Glasgow Aberdeen Manchester Dundee perhaps England has something to learn on city/national working from Scotland, just perhaps...

Re Andy Burnham's Devo everywhere speech, its worth remembering that the ranking of UK cities by median household income - particularly after housing costs ifs.org.uk/data-items/m...

One week from now, we will be boarding the ferry at Dover as Broadcasting Scotland heads to Bosnia to bring you live coverage, reports and interviews from the Srebrenica Genocide Commemoration on 11th July.

there are more Fox & Friends anchors at Trump's fair than actual fairgoers

Scotland and Wales get a mention or rather an assertion but if Burnham is going to bypass Holyrood that will create political conflict and if it's just 'an offer' to Holyrood/Scottish govt what might that be? All of this still sounds like it's basically about England.

Uh oh. The "real devolution" to justify interfering with actual devolution argument.

The Labour Party has the chance to review its policy on Israel, but observers say it will opt for continuity.

Best argument ever.

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