Left: Why were Zuckerberg, Musk and Theil having dinner with Epstein in 2015? They must all have known he pled guilty to child abuse in 2008... Right: Zack Polanski criticising the UK gov for repeated contracts with Theil's Palantir

The world has lost a great woman. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...

Gorton & Denton is between the Green Party and Reform. And Farage knows his candidate is weak as. Hannah Spencer for the win.

If I lived in England, I’d definitely be voting for Zack Polanski’s party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Everybody to Kenmure Street has won an international award at Sundance Film Festival. Well timed, cos it will remind doubters, haters & sceptics that neighbours will protect one another against an authoritarian state - in Glasgow 2021 or Minneapolis today. www.thenational.scot/news/2581367...

Yaaas, Deacon Blue! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🤔 What do you think Derek McInnes will do with the Hearts XI this evening? @sked21.bsky.social looks back at the selection decisions and predicts 4️⃣ changes to the XI that beat St Mirren.

Nadhim Zahawi would be frightened to live in a country run by Nigel Farage. Zahawi has deleted it, but it is too late.

NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times. But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...

Unity is stronger than division. That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right. #Together we show where this country really stands. Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

NEW When should social media posts have legal consequences? Comparing and contrasting the cases of Lucy Connolly and Alaa Abd El-Fattah By me, at @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Endless Restoration and the Soviet Clasp of Blairism bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/29/e...

There's a new way to browse and find walks to do for 2026! A *much* requested feature - you can now browse a map of Scotland will ALL our route lines shown at once, to help you find the one you want to do (and easily see how they connect and intersect). www.walkhighlands.co.uk/maps/big-map...

The press have always failed in their duty to hold Farage to account, he’s always been a wrong’un, and this story encapsulates just how wrong. It’s way past time for this horrid little man to be shunned from political life. Make amends, UK Press, keep reporting. apple.news/AZFbK_7RzRKO...

It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.

Trump’s bombing of Nigeria is showmanship for his evangelical base - Today’s in depth international read 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2572526...

NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners. It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

ORANGE SQUASHED There’s your headline

I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

📺PREDICTED XI | How will Derek McInnes set up? | 3 key battles in Hearts v Rangers @craigcairns.bsky.social goes looks at how McInnes could set up on Sunday before getting the view from the opposition ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY_mIRJCB50

"Tommy Robinson's nothing more than a f*cking little grifter, it's all it's about, 'send me money, send me money, send me money!'" Billy Bragg commenting on Tommy Ten Names "Unite the Kingdom Xmas Rally" in central London, last Saturday. He's not wrong.

Caledonia Screaming in IT

Caledonia Screaming Scotland, the Underground, and the Punk That Wasn’t Meant to Exist internationaltimes.it/caledonia-sc... Grant McPhee

Gotta love what the new Celtic manager is doing with the club - absolutely smashing it! Sensational stuff!

There will be a couple of launch events for Tonight The Music Seems So Loud next year, in different parts of the country, but the first will be at The Hay Festival on the afternoon of Saturday May 30th. Come along! We can talk about 80s hair! Songwriting! Immigration! Link via: sathnam.com/events

Thank you Hearts x

This time of year is so bloody expensive… Must be those bloody migrants again Making our food shops extortionate Rinsing us for heating our homes Privatising the shit out of our childcare Creaming off our mortgages and rent Bastards.

“…I am on Bluesky because I refuse to finance fascism. I refuse to participate in it…”

A tent for winter conditions. #hiking youtu.be/eGb2T3qYloQ

I'm thrilled that Upon A White Horse is going to be Radio 4's Book Of The Week. The first episode, which is on Stonehenge, will be on December 8 at 11.45am – and then there will be a reading from a different part of the book every day up to and including December 12. I hope you'll enjoy listening.

Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.

🧵 Westminster politicians have said some wild stuff over the years about Scotland… Here are just a few of their real quotes – and a reminder of why Scotland needs the power to choose its own future.

Reform UK both ugly and racist, says Don McGrattan; www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

O'Neill and Maloney, wearing sunglasses and black pork pie hats chapping at the door of Bobo Balde's retirement village: "We're putting the band back together"

Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs would have killed the Labour party at birth. The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on point as ever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Westminster caused this cost of living crisis - and they’re unable and unwilling to fix it. Independence is how we raise your living standards, grow our economy and make Scotland’s energy wealth work for the people who live here.

THAT CROSS THAT GOAL THOSE SCENES

What joy at the final whistle. Scenes I haven’t seen and felt for a long time at Tynecastle. Pure joy! That’s why we support our team! Maroon over Edinburgh tonight 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻

Iain Banks: the final interview www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Statement from Paul Laverty

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

Has US style right-wing anti-intellectualism arrived in Scotland? A leading black scholar believes so after a Tory MSP described a major peer-reviewed study of historic racism as a “staggering misuse” of money. Mini 🧵 www.thetimes.com/article/1e4c...

We’re hiring btw. Please nobody tell Mandelson. pilotbeer.co.uk/jobs

Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are now all considering boycotting Eurovision unless Israel are removed. Like if they should. RT if Israel should be kicked out