Dear journalists, pesky immigrant here, so what do I know … But here’s a visual aid for you: Manchester is not “the north”. Seriously: it’s actually getting insulting now given how many have pointed out how wrong and unhelpful all of that nonsense is (and even within a northern England corridor).

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Back from a short break on Dunalastair Estate. A little piece of heaven in Perthshire and some great Scottish hills to explore.

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

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The impacts that hyperscale data centres would have on our communities, environment, and energy systems are unfathomable, writes Gillian Mackay ✍️ 🔗 www.thenational.scot/politi...

Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.

'I have a real concern that when you are only measuring employability at a very early stage in someone’s life you are missing the growth and the success that take place after that.' - Evelyn Welch (Vice Chancellor at Bristol University) www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Not only Britain's weather, of course. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'S e Dimàirt, an ceathramh latha deug den Iuchar, 2026, a th' ann an-diugh. Madainn mhath dhuibh uile ! Na bu tràithe air a' mhadainn seo, thòisich a' cho-labhairt, 'Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2026', aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu le òraidean mun phròiseact mhòr, 'Faclair na Gàidhlig' @faclair.bsky.social.

This seems bad. #climate #ElNino "it looks like this year’s El Niño is not only very likely to be the strongest event since reliable records began – it may end up the strongest by a truly mind-blowing margin." www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-strong...

Hey proud Unionist “Scots”, fishing licenses in *Scottish* waters granted by LABOUR “UK” GOVT: Scottish Fishermen=0 English Fishermen=29 Everything Scotland has is stolen & the wealth extracted @Torcuil Better Together eh? Labour MPs so proud of shafting our country. x.com/hamill2086jo...

I fear so.

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

Who doesn’t rent their spare room back to themselves to offset tax, keeping it £1 less than the amount which would trigger a required to declaration according to Parliament's reporting standards. Working class hero.

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UK Labour Governnent to force Water/Energy Guzzling Al Data Centres on local Communities UK government gives data centers the ability to skirt building regulations and local authority oversight by applying for fast-track ‘national importance’ status | TechRadar share.google/UgBsN3niS2Jn...

Really bad from him. 16 children and one teacher were killed and 15 others shot. It was not "one murder".

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Rocket test flight could be attempted from Shetland in August https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0my797z90eo #scothinews

The Binface interview in full (part 1).

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

Just a re-up on how very safe London is, whether you're wearing a watch or not

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Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

Starmer’s goodbye gift to UK: a pharma deal with Trump more lethal than Covid & costing Scotland’s NHS £4bn. Again Labour UKGovt are acting against us. They have rammed thru England’s Parliament a law harming people & without telling us the costs or consequences. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

RUSSIANS PULLING CASH FROM BANKS AT INCREASING RATE Russian citizens fed up with a mobile payments that don’t work and never ending credit and debit card payment fails are resorting to cash ‘at an alarming rate’, withdrawing 13 billion roubles last week alone. The figure is rising weekly by as much

Totally disgraceful, no thought about clinically vulnerable people, surveillance state priority here from Labour.

Amazing sea cliffs on @scotwildlife.bsky.social Handa island last week - so many seabirds, especially guillemots! Saw puffins and skuas too. The photo was the best my phone could do.

Heatwave halts Reform bid to scrap climate emergency A council debate on scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed after extreme heat made the chamber unusable | Henry Durand

Erecting international fee barriers for EU students has completely gutted Scotland's world-class higher education sector. Starving our universities of European talent hasn't just damaged cultural exchange—it is now actively forcing institutions like Glasgow University to cut jobs. 🛑🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇

NEW: Andy Burnham's Scotsman article pitching to Scottish voters is a "tartanised copy and paste job" of yesterday's statement complete with major errors about Scotland, it has been claimed Let's take a look ...

"If Andy Burnham and the Labour leadership truly believed that people should have control over their own lives, they would stop trying to block Scotland's democratic right to choose its own future." Read more here: https://www.snp.org/why-burnhams-devolution-promises-offer-nothing-new-for-scotland/

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Interesting article on health disparities in America - which has a lower average life expectancy than 60 other countries, including for example the EU. www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/p...

Grim reading showing what people trying to protect raptors are up against.

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

🧵If Ukraine struck 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬⁣ part of the Barrikady factory complex, it is significant. This morning's FP-5 'Flamingo' strike on the JSC "FNVTS 'Titan-Barrikady' plant in Volgograd highlights a critical vulnerability in Russia’s supply chain for its long-range missile capabilities. 1/11

A system that warns motorists about wildlife crossing the road saw accidents drop to zero during testing near Turku.

Nuclear as an answer to climate change? "In Switzerland, the Beznau nuclear power plant took both reactors off grid on Friday because the temperature in the River Aare reached 25C, which is considered too high to cool the reactors sufficiently" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not to labour a point, but this is not a "new scheme", or a "Canada style scheme". It's an existing scheme which has been around for years that Labour are just tweaking, and is designed to take responsibility for supporting people seeking safety away from the state. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My god they look hard work! #pinemartens I love watching them..

A quick reminder that no dog died from missing a walk, but many dogs have died as a result of being exercised in hot weather! I've treated many dogs with heat stroke and it is often fatal. There's loads more useful info on preventing and treating heatstroke at Veterinary Voices UK!

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

Peregrine Falcons in Glasgow city centre today. Both juveniles were on the City Chambers. Mum had oversight from the Cineworld building, quarter of a mile away. #birds