*BONUS EPISODE: Putin v Poland* 🚀 A 30min deep dive into Putin's outrageous launch of drones into Poland, with @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social and geopolitics guru @snellarthur.bsky.social ❗'NATO's red line isn't red enough' 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7L63... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

I'm certain government ending a lot of short term prison sentences will enrage many. But I've never known anyone to work in or with a prison, in including an ex prison minister, who hasn't said that they are the wrong places for the vast majority of inmates.

“Tabloids tell us Connolly is lovely, ordinary, caring, a great Mum. But she wasn’t punished for any of that. She was punished for telling a mob it's okay to set fire to hotels full of people she sees as lesser. That she did it between a cuppa and walking the dog, makes it more chilling, not less.”

It's a tax "raid". When you or I pay our income tax it's just a tax. But when a fabulously wealthy millionaire who refuses to contribute to the country whose public services they use (and yes, they use roads, defence, police etc) it's a "raid". www.ft.com/content/8882...

⚡️Do NOT let Musk get his hands on British utilities. He’s applied for a license to supply energy here. ✍️ Tell Ofgem what you think about that: www.bestforbritain.org/petition-elo...

Thank you @bestforbritain.org Please support this actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...

Very revealing moment on Channel 5 earlier today. Ann Widdecombe claimed people abuse disability benefits. I asked several times for her evidence - she said she’d “heard it from people” when she was a minister. My response? That right there is why our country is in a mess.

New schooll year.... #gaidhlig #gme

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Saying goodnight to the Duke, his horse, and his road cone outside the GoMA in Glasgow. #glasgow #dukeofwellington #goma #glasgowatnight #nightphotography

Please share. Lovely seaside retirement house. All the benefits of a retirement complex (laundry room, extra visitor bedrooms to rent) in a separate house away from the main block. 5 mins walk from Cromers’s seafront. It was my mum’s & is full of happy memories. www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...

OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

You should read this article about the horrifying abuse of people seeking asylum. These so called hotels are more like dehumanising holding pens where sexual abuse is rife and children are getting rickets www.opendemocracy.net/en/asylum-ho...

I’m going to keep being dangerous…are you? 🤔

@ealglasgow.bsky.social hi 🙋🏻‍♀️Nice to see you here. I've added you to my fab Educators of Scotland starter pack. You can check it out here 👇🏽 go.bsky.app/U92yyzH

@johnswinney.bsky.social there are children who go hungry in my school everyday, I am disgusted at the money being offered to help fund the American President’s course to hold the Open! 🤬🤯

Teaching is a team sport. Look after each other and don’t forget the person who looks after you 😊

Jesus felt deep compassion, in his guts, for anyone who was poor, sick, hungry or struggling in any way. For the Christian, then, empathy is not a sign of weakness but of strength, as we follow Jesus along the road of compassion. (Image: "The Return of the Prodigal Son," by Rembrandt)

Your regular reminder that over a lifetime, people born in 1956 will each receive on average £291,000 more from the welfare state than they paid in, compared to £132,000 for people born in 1996 (h/t Resolution Foundation) Just something to consider next time you hear “I’ve paid in all my life…”

@liammcilvanney.bsky.social just finished reading “The Good Father”…might need a few days to recover…powerful, hard hitting and slightly trauma inducing but brilliant!

The fireman was asked why he was laughing while saving this old woman. He said that the old woman had told him: - You reminded me of my wedding night.\

#Labour #KeirStarmer

Please give this a listen…A Trump world is actually terrifying!

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.

Listened to this! The immorality of the Govt and the Conservatives who abandoned people who were unaware of the threat against them is astounding…my heart and soul is devastated for those who lived this!

When it comes to Universal Credit, there is no foreign invasion - just ordinary people, overwhelmingly British, struggling to get by. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

It’s the simple things that can fill our cup with joy #wellbeing

Love the idea of fresh starts and soft landings Enjoy the gift of a fresh start Happy Tuesday 💐

Slowly, for the hard of hearing: 👏It's👏not👏a👏 'bromance'.👏 Putin👏controls👏Trump 👏psychologically.👏 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Loyalist bonfire featuring an effigy of a migrant boat is disgusting and hateful. The dehumanisation of refugees and asylum seekers must stop. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Pope Leo urges international diplomacy to prevent 'irreparable abyss' reut.rs/3G1a222

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NEW: An exhibition highlighting the stories of refugees in Scotland and the impact of awaiting the right to work is set to take place at this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland

The not so slow descent into authoritarianism...

We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.

I've signed a petition to tell the UK government to fulfil its legal and moral obligations to stop selling all arms to Israel.Please sign the petition too, to send a clear message that you won’t stand by whilst the UK continues to be complicit in Israel’s atrocities. www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

1. Today at our village fete B made a friend. A girl a little older than her with the sort of half-shy, half-desperate eyes that tell of experience of hurt and betrayal and the casual cruelty of cooler children. They played together for an hour We never saw her parents. They never came to check..

They were careless people, Elon and Donald. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.

Any questions?

Genuinely good news. Extending FSM to all children on Universal Credit is long overdue. Will cut poverty and help improve concentration and health.