I've just happened across this old photo from a family album, but it wasn't marked. I think it is from Shetland - can anybody confirm?

“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work” Incredibly bleak situation in Sudan.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Jun 19: SpaceX Starship 36 explodes into massive fireball during static test last night

Celebrating #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈 Here’s a throwback photo to TQ at Cardiff Pride last summer – and great news, we’ll be back again this year on 21st June! Keep an eye out for us 😀 #CardiffPride

Little known uncomfortable facts. 'Liberal' Clegg's biggest donor was Paul Marshall, now known as the far-Right owner of (K)GB News. Danny Alexander went from very obscure MP to Clegg's deputy in 'The Quad', to head of the Asian Infrastructure Bank. #failingupwards #kleptocracy

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Great to read about how @techniquest.org played a part in someone’s journey with science 🧪👇

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

The reality is worse than we thought. The White House proposed the largest single-year cut to NASA in history. We urge Congress to reject this proposal and work on a bipartisan solution for a strong space program that reflects humanity’s potential. Our statement: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

Dear, brave, risk taking truth telling. Carole Cadwalladr. We all owe her a huge debt. This is her last piece for the Observer... she's been 'let go', along with many others, as Tortoise Media declined to take on her contract. Her substack is broligarchy.substack.com - it's good.

I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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

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My most old man opinion is that this is the fault of TikTok/Reels/Shorts, which are uniquely pernicious, ultra-addictive slop that major apps just pour into our eyes.

It's day 2 of 3 of our World of Work event, funded by Edina Trust! Today, five more schools enjoyed stalls run by TfW, South Wales Police, CSconnected and more 🛠️

The UK should be doing this too!

It’s a very good point.

The Bylines podcast is now only a few followers short of 10,000! Could you do us a solid and follow them please? 🙃👇 --> @bylinesnetworkpod.bsky.social

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

There’s a corrupt bargain in the offing. Chunks of E Europe for Taiwan S China Sea and Panama & more Some will reluctantly accept it because it appears to avoid war. But it actually cements war itself at the heart of our international system. All the suffering & lessons of the 20th C forgotten

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It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️

Nicolaus Copernicus was born on this day in 1473. He revived & mathematically developed the belief that the Earth orbits the Sun — not the other way around! His heliocentric model, published in 1543, challenged centuries of belief and paved the way for modern space science.

Looks like the FT is getting there..

💥Tarrifs reform 💥US leaders admitting they are a way to annex Canada 💥Backlash in Canada transforming the General Election 1911 and the US Canada annexation crisis. Just one of the attempts to annex Canada over the years. All explained in my latest podcast: 🎧: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hi...

For those who care, here's an excerpt from the forthcoming "Tories: The End of an Error", which will be published by @unbounders.bsky.social as soon as possible. Pre-order it for yourself, or for somebody else that you hate. unbound.com/author-updat...

Legacy media is sleepwalking us into fascism.

Writing this morning about Jo Cox and Sir David Amess. And wondering how so many people can still discount how dangerous hate, resentment, and a wide-spread lack of trust are to a democracy. RIP.

For International Day of Women and Girls in Science - frankly, when is it ever not - delighted to join colleagues working in biomedical and AI research in Vienna to emphasise that sex and gender work is more important now than ever.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

NEW: Episode 7 - Chemical Attacks. This episode should actually blow your mind. There’s been a lot about Boris Johnson & Evgeny Lebedev but it’s the meeting with his father, the ex-KGB colonel that you need to pay attention to… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists brace ‘for the worst’ as Trump purges climate mentions from websites

Senator Chuck Schumer sums it up

💥 NEW: Labour voters are *84%* for a youth mobility scheme... ...with only 6% against. What's to lose? In fact, they might even gain some of those 59% of Conservatives and 34% of Reform that support it too.

“And here lies perhaps the biggest impact of DeepSeek. It has ripped off the veil of mystique that previously surrounded AI.” My Observer column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The United States is under attack. Elon Musk—who has been elected to nothing and is a deeply troubled person—is literally destroying our government from the inside and doing so without authority or consent of the governed. Working on a report on this right now. It’s an emergency.

🔥 FINALLY! The BBC are finally doing the public education service on Brexit that they always should have. Have a read. 👇👇

Public responses to EU-related questions in Falmouth, Cornwall yesterday. Passers by were invited to put a sticker in the boxes to give their answers. Follow @cornwall4eu.bsky.social

42% of children in private schools get extra time in exams bit.ly/3WouXRs it’s what you pay for I guess!

NEW: meet Sergei. This is the incredible story of the man who tried to warn the British intelligence services of a Kremlin plot to infiltrate the Conservative Party. And the backstory behind our podcast Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Russian hackers target WhatsApp accounts of ministers worldwide

This company likes to portray itself as akin to numerous small local brewers. It is, in fact, a giant corporation backed by a US private equity firm.

In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8

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📈Lots of charts doing rounds re market jitters in the UK. Here's one I find quite helpful 👇 It's the cost of insuring UK debt against default. Two things to note: 1. People ARE more concerned. The CDS spread HAS jumped up recently. 2. It's nothing like what happened in 2022.