'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Comhairlean ionadail a' beachdachadh air mar a dh'fhaodte foghlam Gàidhlig àrd-sgoile a leudachadh agus leasachadh ann am meadhan Alba Tha mi toilichte a bhith an sàs anns an rannsachadh seo do Bhòrd na Gàidhlig còmhla ris an eòlaiche foghlaim Jim Whannel. www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...

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People need to be aware that leaving the ECHR opens the door to reinstating the barbarity that is the death penalty. Protocol 13 commits member states to the abolition of the death penalty under all circumstances. Leaving the ECHR allows a future Westminster Govt to bring it back.

Finland's war readiness looks justified after Russian drones over Oslo & Copenhagen Airports - what next? Your Party launch was a washout - can it survive? Is Andy Burnham about to oust Starmer? Will the EU cut trade links with Israel? Listen to podcast lesleyriddoch.com/podcast

I see the British media is full-on normalising far right extremism now. Flag wavers screaming "save our kids" & calling for mass deportations are not "anti-immigration protestors", they're racists. Charlie Kirk was not a "conservative activist" he was a white supremacist.

My latest blog piece, the moral isolationism of Starmer in the face of the far right. It’s no longer a question of if Scotland should risk the uncertainties of independence, but should we risk the ugly certainty of a far right English nationalist UK. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/t...

Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

We’ve all seen the letter from Donald Trump to the vile sex trafficker and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and the handwritten note from Lord Mandelson calling Epstein his “best pal”. Today I asked the PM what other compromising material the White House might have on the Ambassador.

Tha seo math www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

My latest blog piece. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/w...

Reminder: Scotland already has the powers under devolution to bring Scottish energy generation into public ownership which would allow Scotland - not multinational megacorps and foreign public companies - to benefit from Scotland's energy. Here's how to do it: www.commonweal.scot/policies/how...

The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.

Farage is all in with the very definition of Wilhoit's Law. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." www.thenational.scot/news/2541432...

Lets make this the norm at any sporting event Israel appears in and when their national anthem is played. Even better, the opposition turn out wearing the colours of the Palestinian flag. Make the Israeli team, management, support, population feel the contempt internationally their countries held in

Excellent turn out for our street stall in Burntisland today. Lots of support and positive chats with those who are undecided. They left with lots of information. Our new tablecloth also made it's debut.

Another positive Yes South Fife Coast street stall in Inverkeithing this morning. Plenty of evidence that the desire for Independence is still out there

A Gaelic-speaking MSP has called on a budding Scottish Labour candidate to apologise for 'deeply disrespectful' remarks she has made around the language 🗣️ 'These comments are depressingly ill informed and deeply disrespectful to Scotland’s Gaelic-speaking communities'

Funeral held for Anas al-Sharif and other journalists killed in Israeli strike

Rightwingers warn of another blaze of summer riots in Britain – but they’re the ones striking the match | John Harris

How there are people that justify this is beyond me.

"A stain on humanity, which will endure for generations."

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The photograph that the Israeli government does not want you to see. Taken from the air by journalist colleague @Heidiphotos

EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish university rector is set to make a discrimination claim after she was removed from the institution’s governing body when she called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

98% That's the decrease in the annual number of single-use plastic bags in the UK since a 5p charge started 10 years ago (it's now 10p) Not all environmental problems are that easy to tackle, but change is possible Resharing the Mail's 2015 splash, which has aged well www.gov.uk/government/p...

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.

TENANTS of a few acres of bog & rock face criminal sanctions for not submitting return & confirming residence. But OWNERS of thousands of acres face no obligations to submit such returns or to be resident. Just one of many bizarre aspects of Scottish land law www.scottishlegal.com/articles/tho...

A Palestinian activist and journalist who contributed to the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been killed in the West Bank

I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter

The algo obviously HATES us talking about this. So would you do us a favour and share? UK Media Shifts Tone on Gaza - #BrokenNews youtu.be/WmFD42E5_W4

Nach robh cothrom agaibh èisteachd ri òraidean Rhind a ghabh Simon Taylor am mìos seo chaidh? Tha iad uile rin cluainntinn air-loidhne a-nis! ~ Did you miss Simon Taylor's Rhind lectures last month? They are all available to listen to online now! buff.ly/lBOcD7M #AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Placenames

'Vast amounts of aid needed to stave off catastrophic health crisis in Gaza,' UN warns news.sky.com/story/israel...

Ainm-àite na Seachdaine Portneora ~ Port an Eòrna 'the barley port' NG775320 www.ainmean-aite.scot?id=44205 #AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic

Nesrine Malik in the Guardian. #Gaza #Children