A lot of geopolitical analysis underprices the risks to global stability from ageing leaders turning into senile fruitcakes

“I suspect that Shetlanders will be bemused to learn that the Isle of Man is considered to be part of the UK in the eyes of GB Energy, while Shetland is not...”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 Before I went to Dublin this week, I was interviewed by Mark Paul of the Irish Times. You might like a read: www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿£1.5bn Land Rover £500m Port Talbot £100m Britishvolt 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 £0 Mossmorran £0 Grangemouth £0 Alexander Dennis No care. No support. No shame. Quick to spend in England, quicker to abandon Scotland and brass neck to blame ScotGov. Shameless. #VoteSNP #SNP26👇 #nevertrustlabour

Far from cutting energy bills as they promised, the Labour government is hiking the bills of Scots to pay for nuclear plants in England. In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.

Ahem! Scotland?

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

This is who is advising the president of the United States

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.” www.adl.org/resources/re...

New paper co-authored by CCAP Curator Ceci Rad Menéndez: "Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

CCAP and @samsocean.bsky.social are attending the Preserving What Matters: Scotland's National Collections exhibition on Tuesday 27th May - at the RSE, George Street in Edinburgh. If you're in the area come along to see our stand 🧪 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving...

India carried out strikes early on Wednesday against Pakistan, two weeks after an attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam. Here is what we know aje.io/84hvaa

#Israel is slaughtering #Palestinians Moving the survivors into camps and ghettos. Occupying their land. Committing genocide and other war crimes. There will be a reckoning. The world must act.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

And just a reminder on this St.George's day that Farage leads in the polls in England, despite Brexit consequences and seeing the shit show across the Atlantic. 🤷‍♂️

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

Protesters in Turkey

It is quite an image. "The dervishes' black cloaks symbolize tombs, and long headgear symbolizes tombstones, all representing the journey from the physical world to the spiritual realm."🥺

I’ve never forgotten meeting Aberdeen trade unionist Ron Webster, just months before his death at 96. Ron was proudly, passionately left-wing and railed against increasing poverty in his home city. He would have been appalled by today’s spring statement! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...

The number of Islamophobic posts about London Mayor Sadiq Khan has risen from 12,000 to 28,000 over the last 12 months, according to a GLA report. They’re nearly all on TwitterX and more than half come from the US and India.

Not the biggest issue here by any means, but does Trump think the European Union is just one country?

Pikachu suits could be the new uniforms for fighting the rise of authoritarianism in the modern surveillance state. Ridicule the autocrats.

What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"

Armenia National Assembly votes for starting EU accession bid,,,

WM Government feared the prospect of Scottish independence why the contents of the McCrone report was classified and only came to light in 2005 However Scotland was not allowed to know that it would have been one of the wealthiest countries in the world www.livebreathescotland.com/would-englan...

Any Scot not now wanting independence cares absolutely nothing for our people, our communities our country our future. The time is now.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

FROM THE MASTER INVESTOR HIMSELF…👇 Thoughts?! 🤔

The Government have decided that the two biggest sources of money, ending Brexit £42bn a year, or taxing the richest 1% the same 47% as everyone else £250bn a year, are not an option. But there is loads of money and they are choosing not to take it.

Brazil's Supreme Court decides unanimously that Bolsonaro must stand trial, paving the way (a ways away yet) for his arrest. Becomes first Brazilian president charged with attempting a coup. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

hey did anyone else get invited to "blame canada/land invasion" nextdoor group chat too

atlantic editor jeffrey goldberg when asked about publishing the full text from leaked signal group chat “just because they're irresponsible with material, doesn't mean i am.”

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (23-24 Mar) Lab: 23% (-3 from 16-17 Mar) Ref: 22% (-2) Con: 22% (=) Lib Dem: 16% (+2) Green: 10% (+1) SNP: 3% (=) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

It turns out that saying 'this is not austerity' while simultaneously making and defending spending cuts... does not work.

Some breaking news in my latest. Others pointed out that Witkoff appeared to be in Moscow when he joined the Houthi PC Group chat. Sky News has a detailed story on his timeline in Moscow. I ran that against the timeline from the Atlantic article. Witkoff was waiting for Putin when he was added.(1/2)

I don't know about you all, but I sleep better at night knowing that the Secretary of Defense is an alcoholic frat bro who accidentally texted a reporter, in the midst of a classified group chat about an imminent military strike in the Middle East, "We are currently clean on operational security"

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

Only 21% of Britons believe Labour's claim it's not returning to austerity, poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

There is absolutely no way Greenland should let in a representative of an overtly hostile nation, in fact the wife of someone explicitly threatening to “take” it. Turn her plane back.

Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.

World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.

Scotland voted to remain in the EU, but not one shit was given.

Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937