One for your travels 2026 #Forres #Moray #Scotland #dotScot @thegreenplace.bsky.social visitforres.scot

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just published! Our new article in Science and Public Policy: “How do mission-oriented innovation policies work? A theory of action derived from the EU missions url: academic.oup.com/spp/article-... Our key contribution: a theory of action that explains how #MOIP generate systemic change.

If European Digital Sovereignty is to mean anything, it ought to mean NOT posting on a platform owned and run by a fascist intent on undermining the EU! And don't give me the bullshit you have to be there for "balance" or "reach" - the rules are stacked against you from the outset

Paul McCartney has joined forces with U.K. MPs who are urging Brussels to scrap any plans to ban the use of meat-related names such as “burger” and “sausage” for plant-based products.

The Chihuahua-In-Chief’s attempt to start a culture war in Glasgow, over beautiful & smart bi- or multi-lingual kids, is doomed—not least because we already accept the condition for Gaelic (& Scots). & AI just translates everything…My @ScotNational column www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

Nous étions des dizaines d'eurodéputés à écrire aux organisateurs de l' #Eurovision pour demander l'exclusion d'Israël. Leur participation a été une nouvelle fois maintenue malgré le génocide 👉Je salue 🇪🇸,🇸🇮,🇳🇱 & 🇮🇪 qui ont fait le choix du #boycott. @rtbf.be & @vrtnws.be, c'est votre tour! #NoImpunity

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An excellent piece on the launch of the new domain for #Scotland .co.scot Particularly grateful that the article foregrounds the Scottish #diaspora as ‘a domain for the worldwide community of Scots’ was such a big part of the #dotScot idea in the first place 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌏🌎🌍🕸 www.sentinel.scot/blog/new-co-...

If we surrender our standards, we surrender our sovereignty. If we give in to populism, we do not regain control, we lose it. A democratic, green, social and competitive Europe is not only possible. It is necessary. 3/3

European Innovation Scoreboard 2025 Explained: Bridging Data and Policy. A podcast that sits right at the crossroads of evidence and strategy in European research. We talk a lot about innovation, but do we understand the numbers we rely on to judge how well we’re doing? pod.co/the-insider/...

The votes are in: the Christian Democrats @eppgroup.bsky.social openly chose the far-right over children's rights & nature protection today. This is a bad day for Europe & the values we stand for. We will keep fighting for #HumanRights, #ClimateJustice & the future our children deserve. #omnibus

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

At one level today has been professionally good - it's rare to be quoted in FT www.ft.com/content/1405... and The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... But the Commission's high speed rail plan leaves me rather unimpressed - and I'm the only one daring say so jonworth.eu/when-a-plans...

Watching the magnificent Catherine Connolly, and considering her radical predecessors as Irish Presidents, makes you dream fondly of a Scottish President in a Scottish republic. But can we unplug from the Windsors as Head of State? My @ScotNational col www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being -- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth. ― Carl Sagan

Shape the Future of #EUMissions The European Commission is conducting a 2026 Assessment of EU Missions ! Share your thoughts on how Missions engage with citizens and stakeholders by participating in a short survey. 🔗 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... ⏱️ Takes just 5-10 minutes 📅 Deadline: 31 October 2025

UK (Scotland), Norstat poll: Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes: 53% (-1) No: 47% (+1) +/- vs. 27-30 May 2025 Fieldwork: 22-25 September 2025 Sample size: 1,010 ➤ https://europeelects.eu/uk

Pendant que vous êtes en vacances, l'UE démantèle les protections environnementales 🏖️➡️💔 Vous avez jusqu'au 10 septembre pour dire à la Commission ce que vous pensez. Votre voix compte : www.natagora.be/Handsoffnatu...

Joint statement on behalf of 27 partners on humanitarian aid to Gaza and restrictions facing NGOs. Read here: europa.eu/!fKHMD6

270 journalistes morts. A l'initiative de Lynn Boylan, nous adressons un courrier à @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social et @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu. Le meurtre de 6 journalistes et staff d' @aljazeera.com exige une réaction ferme de l'UE et des sanctions.

If Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship with the Scottish Government, he needs to get his Environment Secretary to retract his totally inaccurate comments about Scotland’s water. Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇

Funny. I would have expected the "Free Speech Union" and the other self-proclaimed defenders of free expression to be all over this. But 🦗🦗🦗 How strange. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-arre...

Parliament will vote TODAY on proscribing Palestine Action as a TERRORIST ORGANISATION like ISIS. Can we get to 100,000 signatures against before the day is over? palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Well said 👏

🌳 Une fois de plus, la droite conservatrice (PPE) et l’extrême droite s’allient pour saboter le #PacteVert. Aujourd’hui, ils ont voté contre l’acte d’exécution du règlement #DéforestationImportée ⚠️ J’ai saisi la @EU_Commission pour protéger ce texte essentiel. Nous ne céderons pas. #RDUE #justice

How many countries does Israel have to bomb before Europe stops cooperating with the terrorist Israeli state ? @ec.europa.eu @euparliament.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Barely fresher than a lettuce…hopeless, unprincipled, zero credibility.

There's your answer.

They were terrorists too, were they?

Israeli government ministers and officials told us exactly what they intended to do in #Gaza, then went ahead and did it. There will be no justice until they are brought before the ICC to face charges of genocide.

“The difference between liberal and populist parties should be that liberal parties treat human rights seriously,” Rydlinski says. “Research shows that when liberal and left-wing parties accommodate far-right issues, they do not win populist voters, but lose their own.” What research you say?...

Cycling isn’t just good for your health – It’s good for the planet, our cities, and the economy. ✔️ Over 92,000 km of EuroVelo cycling routes across Europe ✔️ Nearly 10 million bicycles produced yearly in the EU ✔️ 1.35 million jobs supported by the EU cycling sector

🌍 Climate change isn't just an environmental crisis — it's becoming a health crisis. ⚙️The EIB has a new tool that shows how floods, heatwaves & droughts impact healthcare needs — and how to better invest in climate adaptation. Discover it now 👉 bit.ly/43OKLku

You don't need to be a prophet. Images like this - of starved Palestinians hammed into fenced cages by Israel - will be remembered for generations as hideous evidence of a terrible crime. And history will remember not just those who cheered it on, but those who stayed silent.

Menacé par Trump, Bruce Springsteen donne de la voix : «L’Amérique que j’aime est aux mains d’un gouvernement corrompu, incompétent et perfide» En concert à Lille samedi 24 mai, le «Boss» a de nouveau étrillé le président américain, lequel l’insulte, le calomnie et tente désormais l’intimidation.

Personne n’a voté pour sacrifier la nature 🌳 C’est pourtant ce que le MR et les Engagés font. Retour en arrière sur : ❌ la protection des forêts ❌ l’adaptation ❌ la biodiversité ❌ les plans climat ❌ la mobilité ❌ l’isolation Retrouvez l’interview de @telliercecile.bsky.social ici 👇

In 3 months, bluefin tuna will be migrating back into our waters, where they'll be met with a fleet of commercial and recreational* fishers. It's a horrible way to welcome these magnificent, charismatic creatures. Let's try to get this to 250,000 before they arrive. www.change.org/p/protect-bl...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 #Tallinn #Estonia (pic 🙏 @thegreenplace.bsky.social )

155,000 of us came together to #SaveLochLomond. SEPA, the National Trust for Scotland, Woodland Trust, Ramblers & the National Park's planning experts all objected to Flamingo Land. But Government officials have still approved this destructive mega-resort. Take action 👇 greens.scot/LochLomond

Des enfants meurent de faim à Gaza parce que l’aide humanitaire est bloquée. La famine est utilisée comme une arme de guerre. L’Union européenne doit briser le blocus en envoyant une flotte humanitaire. Ecolo lance une pétition pour l’exiger. ✍️ ecolo.be/petition/bri...

People are being starved. Govt of Israel, lift your blockade now. The proposed plan violates humanitarian principles. It’s rejected by UN agencies & humanitarian partners. Humanitarian aid must never be politicised or militarised. A political solution is the only way forward.

Attaques par drônes d'un bateau humanitaire, le flottille de la Liberté, par l'armée 🇮🇱 Cela s'est passé dans les eaux internationales près de Malte, un Etat membre 🇪🇺 ➡️Le silence assourdissant de l'UE permet ses escalades. Il est temps de mettre fin à l'impunité: sanctions NOW! #StopGenocide

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Where do Britons on average place the political parties on the left-right spectrum? Green: -55 Labour: -36 Lib Dems: -23 Conservatives: +51 Reform UK: +69 Scale where -100 is very left-wing and +100 is very right-wing yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

2024 Gender Equality Index: 🇸🇪 82.0 🇩🇰 78.8 🇳🇱 78.8 🇪🇸 76.7 🇧🇪 76.1 🇫🇷 76.1 🇱🇺 75.4 🇫🇮 74.5 🇮🇪 73.4 🇩🇪 72.0 🇦🇹 71.7 🇪🇺 71.0 🇸🇮 70.1 🇲🇹 70.1 🇮🇹 69.2 🇵🇹 68.6 🇱🇹 65.8 🇧🇬 64.5 🇵🇱 63.4 🇱🇻 62.6 🇨🇾 60.9 🇪🇪 60.8 🇸🇰 59.9 🇨🇿 59.9 🇭🇷 59.7 🇬🇷 59.3 🇭🇺 57.8 🇷🇴 57.5

✍️Learning from what works: using the Government’s new evaluation registry Recently, the Evaluation Task Force within the Cabinet Office launched the evaluation registry with info on over 1400 evaluations conducted across UK government. Find out more👇 buff.ly/YtyBd29