As long as we put down dogs and not humans to stop them from suffering, the debate won't be over. #AssistedDying The assisted dying bill has failed - but the debate isn't over - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

With two weeks to go to the election count, we're urging people with postal votes to return them early. Remember - one X on each paper - it's your date of birth that you put beside your signature on envelope A. More info on the election www.edinburgh.gov.uk/scottishparliamentelection

🚨 Breaking!!! 🚨 As if setting the record for the highest percentage of zero carbon U.K electricity ever recorded - at 98.8% - wasn’t enough this week, the National Energy System Operator has just announced that we also set a new for solar generation yesterday! 🇬🇧☀️♻️⚡️

🌳New Women in Forestry event announced in Leicestershire! https://rfs.org.uk/news-list/new-women-in-forestry-event-leicestershire/ “The warmth and respect shared among us created a really special atmosphere.” #WomenInForestry #Leicestershire #EarlyCareers #InclusiveForestry 💪🚺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥾🌱

Videos supposedly showing large groups of Muslims praying in the middle of streets in central London have been gaining traction on social media. But they aren’t real. The clips feature garbled text, glitching flags, and AI watermarks.

The water can still be chilly at this time of year, which can cause cold water shock. Make sure you know the Water Safety Code: bit.ly/3zBZ0dO It is particularly breezy on some coastlines today, so stay informed with our beach forecast, including wind speeds, on the Met Office app.

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Heritage means, among so many others things, NOT having illuminated advertising signs anywhere in the city of #Edinburgh. #WorldHeritageDay #Vulgarity #Crassness

Information about registering to vote, voting by post and other advice is available on our website: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/scottishparl...

Remember if you want to cast a postal vote in the upcoming Scottish Parliament election you need to first be registered to vote by 11:59pm on Monday, April 20. Your postal vote application then needs to be submitted by 5pm on Tuesday, April 21 📮

Big part of my musical and political education, and really shifted my horizons 💔 "We're not here to give the public what it wants. We're here to give the public what it didn't know it wanted". www.bbc.com/news/article...

❤️ BBC News - Malala's brother Khushal on fleeing the Taliban and facing the manosphere www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Never mind models' colour(mosaics are fantastic, get over it) and the scowling faces, particularly the woman's,what's with the short skirt & the heels? Where we're still at?? #EverydaySexism BBC News - Team Scotland condemns 'abhorrent' racist abuse aimed at its models www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ask candidates for the 2026 Scottish elections to sign the Rewilding Nation Charter. Write to them here: actionnetwork.org/campaigns/ca...

UN experts analysis of Decree 12 “criminal rules of courts” conclude they alarmingly escalate the systematic dismantling of human rights protections in #Afghanistan & must be rescinded. Analysis & questions in letter to taliban spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

Conservative MP Esther McVey claimed last week that knife crime in London “is up 72% in a year”. That figure’s not correct, according to police statistics on knife-enabled crime, and we’ve not found any data to support it.

Hungary: Orban loses historic election The new Private Eye is out now.

"The temptation will be to reach for the familiar playbook – more drilling, more subsidies, more supply diversification. These reflexes were built for a world without alternatives. By the time new fossil supply comes online, it will be outcompeted by cheaper electrotech"

We trashed #PrincesStreet throughout the years, and now there are plans to trash it further. #Edinburgh #PearlCastToSwine

Quick take for @therestpolitics.bsky.social on the fall of Viktor Orban and why it is a loss for far more leaders than just the outgoing Hungarian PM podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

This is a really useful graphic. I wish it also showed the overseas land used to supply the 80% of the timber and forest products that the U.K. imports. It should be on the wall of every Defra office, and attached to every new tree planting application.

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

A little something I wrote that's in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More #HomeGrownHomes 🌲🏘️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This time from Matt Stevenson’s ECOSystem Technologies using Scottish cross laminated #timber #Forestry www.bbc.com/news/article...

Home grown homes 🌲🏘️ #forestry #Scotland www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

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To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds. See our website for the latest guidance: brnw.ch/21x1t4w

#Brexit, the gift that keeps on taking. #EU fingerprint and photo travel rules come into force - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our interview with the President of Ukraine is out now. Alastair speaks with Zelenskyy about everything from the personal toll of the war and his daily calls with his mother, to the bigger picture: Putin’s mindset, US involvement, and the shaping of new alliances. Link in the replies.

Or just realised he didn't have any change to make a phone call.

You may wonder why the Europeans aren't responding more forcefully to JD Vance in Budapest 1/ Because Orban looks set to lose & any EU intervention could be counterproductive 2/ Because the US is so far beyond the pale - Greenland, Iran, Ukraine etc. The EU is quietly moving on

Will we have the guts/savvy in the #UK? BBC News - Greece to ban #socialmedia for under-15s from next year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let me guess, she wasn't subservient. #Femicide BBC News - Man stabbed wife 22 times while their children were at home www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

During which she should hear the #Friends theme song on a loop during waking hours. BBC News - 'Ketamine Queen' sentenced to 15 years in #MatthewPerry overdose death www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Markets are celebrating a Middle East peace deal. They shouldn't be. This is not peace; it is a US strategic retreat, repackaged as diplomacy. And like Neville Chamberlain's declaration of "peace in our time" in 1938, the optimism is not only premature but also dangerous. youtu.be/baR3z0sXgDg?...

One of our biggest interviews yet. Tomorrow. 6pm.

Good thread about curlews on my home turf in the north east of Wales. The only way forward is to have more open and honest dialogue with everyone included. Focus needs to be on finding solutions and not just the usual finding fault.

'as of September, Angela’s youngest daughter will have to leave Girlguiding because she is transgender'. Angela has transed her 10 year old son. Not helped him address any gender confusion he may have. That is the story. Appalling. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Britain’s electricity is currently 91% zero carbon! Every unit of domestic renewable and ultra low carbon energy we generate means a safer and more secure today and a better 🇬🇧 tomorrow.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Is Trump really a fascist? This week, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social is joined by The Rest is History's Dominic Sandbrook to reignite the US election night debate on fascism, and ask - who is winning the Iran War? Link in the replies 👇

Trump is threatening genocide and King Charles is still planning a state visit to see him. Why, oh why, oh why? Has he really got such low self worth that he won’t tell Starmer where to get off? It’s time to refuse to obey orders.

A two-megawatt turbine pays back its build energy and emissions in 6-12 months, then runs clean for the next 25+ years. The fossil fuel industry doesn’t own the sun and the air. That’s why they’ve spent billions electing puppets to attack and delay the renewable revolution.

20% of British electricity coming from solar power at six in the evening in early April is absolutely remarkable. And we’re just getting started…🇬🇧♻️⚡️💡🔋😎

Always interesting when we do/don’t get concerned about even-aged single species plantations …

Labour MPs promote flats in tax haven development by men banned from UK and accused in Pakistan bit.ly/4scbKjb

ELECTORAL REFORM: Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

There is nothing that the current #US administration touches that doesn't turn to shit. How many more years? #QuoUsqueTandem

The trip of a lifetime. 🍄‍🟫 🚬 🌪 🚀 🎇