"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.” Read more: https://wapo.st/4r7izC7

A beautiful Service of Thanksgiving today for the life of the remarkable woman, Jeane Freeman. Jeane has left a powerful legacy in our laws that we should treat people with dignity, fairness and respect - and that’s what I will always do. Rest in peace, Jeane. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amazing, so beautiful! 🔻

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Oh dear....sore loser cry baby 👶. 🔻

The Greens proved them all wrong - the left is back My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social Here’s a taster And here’s a link to the full article www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Zack Polanski, cutting to the heart of the matter! The times they are a changing🙏

Alexander claiming Labour is left of centre Theres nothing left wing about demonising the disabled, siding with the private utility companies, scapegoating refugees, expanding private sector provision of NHS services, refusing to redistribute wealth, arming Israels genocide etc

Hello darkness my old friend...

Yes! 100% 🕊🔻

Over at the newsletter I wrote about how the right wing, corporate U.S. press is utterly dedicated to derailing AOC's pursuit of higher office:

BREAKING: The Greens have reported Labour to the police for alleged breaches of electoral law in the Gorton and Denton by-election. It comes after a van saying the Greens want 'our daughters used for legal prostitution' was reportedly seen near a polling station www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay MSP @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social said: High quality, affordable #childcare should not be a luxury in Scotland. But the current system is not delivering greens.scot/news/fmqs-gr...

Remember

#media #oppressors #scapegoats #inclusion #diversity #equality

Blair's think tank is funded by Larry Ellison (Oracle). Ellison is an enemy of democracy, building surveillance states and funds Israel's genocide. He should be nowhere near public services.

Palantir, the most insidious tech company, owned by right wing facist Peter Thiel. They are a danger to our civil liberties. The UK government should cancel all their contracts.🔻

The UK needs much more than a closer economic relationship with the EU. We must build our security and political relationship, we must unite as democracies against the autocracies East and West that seek to undermine our values and our societies. We must embrace our European future! #RejoinEU

No regulation. No oversight. Just endless streams of money for AI and also Crypto. These industries are giving MILLIONS to both Democrats and Republicans. What could go wrong? www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ

This is a massive scandal. Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them. How can this even be legal?

Read our proposals for the next Scottish government: www.stopclimatechaos.scot/policypriori...

Along with 16 leading international humanitarian organisations, we are taking unprecedented legal action to protect civilians and staff. The Israeli authorities demand for a new registration system threatens to silence aid agencies and block life‑saving support.

The Council Tax in Scotland is an unfair tax. The better off should pay more. It should be replaced. www.taxjustice.scot have concrete proposals for change.

NEW: This is a terrific deep dive into Epstein & Russia by @professorshaw.bsky.social for @thenerve.news which starts with ‘Yachtgate’, Mandelson’s 2008 scandal involving Nat Rothschild, George Osborne & Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

#GrayDay marks the anniversary of Alasdair Gray’s LANARK – published #OTD, 25 Feb, 1981 The cover of this edition shows Gray’s frontispiece for Book 4. Based on Abraham Bosse’s 1651 frontispiece to Hobbes’ LEVIATHAN, it depicts a figurative State towering over a panoramic view across Scotland 1/8

This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️ From Gisèle Pelicot’s unmissable memoir to a brilliant slice of Americana 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...

Devastating new research by international academics on the death toll in Gaza. An Israeli genocide funded by the US.🔻

This is astonishing and amazing reporting.🔻

Reform, MAGA, AfD, all the same. True patriotism to them defined as belief in the superiority of white heterosexual Christians (males at the top) & readiness to bolster their supremacy with policies to reverse decades of immigration & boost “indigenous” birthrates. Putin’s fascist puppets

Funny how the Greens are always ‘hard left’ but Reform is never ‘far right’

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary

Reform - plan to take from the poor to give to the rich. Dishonest, Deceitful, Despicable.🔻

Rep Robert Garcia: “Annie Farmer is a courageous survivor of Epstein’s abuse. I’ve invited Annie to the State of the Union so she can join other survivors & remind the President of his refusal to release all the Epstein files I’ll be at the People’s State of the Union and tell her story”

Maybe Labour want to have re-think about who and what "grows" an economy.

There's nothing Christian about Reform's nonsense heritage proposals. Jesus preached that hoarding wealth is sinful. He stated that we must welcome the stranger and love our neighbour, no matter where they come from. Reform loathe these real Christian values.

Really is shocking of the BBC to be so fearful. This is a political decision- censorship. 🔻

First they came for your state pensions, and with workers money, they came for your public hospital, public school, public housing, and finally, they came for your job.

Workers' capital -pension funds - pushing for AI to replace workers is one of the exquisite ironies of the financialised welfare bargain

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Palantir - an insidious tech company now being recognised by other countries as posing a threat to their national security. An investigation into their contracts in the UK is vital.🔻

"Lest we forgot: Britain has a patriotism problem" via UK Against Hate

Nigel Farage skips £20m 'Love Clacton' meet to schmooze backers 300 miles away www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Farage “wants to distract people into thinking their problems are because of women or equality and diversity policies, or immigrants. Like Trump, it shifts the discourse and that’s v dangerous” Women must turn Farage’s problem with women into a problem for him. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today's #PhotographyIsArt share is another shot taken on my local beach just as the sun was coming up. I can't seem to get enough of those big, big, skies. #Wales #Llandudno #naturephotography