Bahrain condemns Iranian drone attack after overnight US strikes

The crisis in UK higher education is worsening week by week — Exeter University is one of the best in the UK, with superb lecturers (and several You’re Dead To Me guests), but it’s planning massive job cuts in History, Archaeology, Classics — see the petition below to lend your voice in support

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EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Government has said it 'stands ready' to support at least 10 more Palestinian families after the UK Government announced it will resume a scheme to evacuate critically ill and injured children from Gaza

I’ve very ambivalent feelings about this and know the many pitfalls, not least the ‘beauty contest/horror contest’ dimension. This is the new reality and the struggle now is to make this fair and a genuine route to protection, not an offloading of securitisation on communities and universities.

Over 150 Scottish businesses now boycotting Israel – see the interactive map www.thenational.scot/news/2623286... www.thenational.scot/subscribe/

Dubs vs Mahmood is not a fair fight.

And, "applications for family reunion under the right to a family life will in future have to be brought by a UK-based sponsor, not the overseas family member". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Mahmood has previously said the new safe and legal routes will allow hundreds of refugees a year to come to the UK and a Labour source said the aim was for it to reach thousands a year. A similar scheme in Canada has allowed 400,000 refugees to enter the country since 1979.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to announce safe and legal routes for refugees from overseas within months. The schemes will allow community groups to identify refugees to support. A third scheme will allow employers to sponsor refugees from next year.

Raspberry harvest begins and flowers are a tumbling bejewelled abundance in the gloaming #permaculture

Venezuela grapples with deadly twin quakes, over 700 injured so far https://aje.news/i69yt9

This week, @marklynas.bsky.social is joined by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to explore a new framework for understanding environmentalism. George argues there are three distinct & frequently conflicting philosophies: Green Liberationism, Green Pragmatism, & Green Social Nostalgia. 🎙️ Listen below.

Brilliant night celebrating courageous, patient, careful and most of all good Scottish journalism at Refugee Media Awards - with a record number of nominations for the bold, brave work of @scotnational.bsky.social team and some superb local reporting, including by Glasgow Bell.

U.K. Government’s own country guidance on Palestine updated on 22nd June (Monday) - a litany of war crimes www.gov.uk/government/p...

The incredible @alisonphipps.bsky.social closing the evening by remembering the lives of brave journalists murdered by Israel in the ongoing genocide.

Israel continues to commit genocide, atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, UN independent commission finds | UN News news.un.org/en/story/202...

Local communities are set to gather at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday to demand the Scottish Government takes action on regulating AI data centre developments

A United Nations agency said Tuesday that a plan is underway to evacuate 11,000 stranded seafarers through the Strait of Hormuz.

A decade on from the shock vote that saw Scotland dragged out of the bloc against its will – after the nation voted 62% to Remain – the wounds run deep, and they run much deeper than tales of red tape and economic woe 👇 Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

How to go about turning your reputation around, when the International Community has noticed you are committing a Genocide: www.972mag.com/leaked-idf-p...

UK: Migrant dies crossing the English Channel #Refugees

This isn't normal. While this government is in chaos, its failure to protect people from extreme heat will cost lives. We need maximum workplace temperatures to protect workers and cool spaces so the vulnerable aren't exposed.

'Foxglove said Jones should recuse herself from decision-making related to the upcoming break clause of Palantir’s NHS contract. “It’s worrying that the revolving door between government and the Palantir-led consortium has been operating under the watchdog’s nose”' www.ft.com/content/b8ee...

As Israel continues to bomb southern Lebanon, Dr Ghassan and his team remain committed to treating war-wounded children from the region, writes Rayna Carruthers in a special report ✍️

Historic milestone: Botswana has granted citizenship to 69 long-term refugees. Learn more: www.unhcr.org/africa/news/...

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has announced he will resign as Prime Minister The announcement was made on Monday after Starmer reportedly spent the weekend considering his future

52. What is your theory of society? That question matters because every successful political project ultimately rests on an answer to that question:

📖If you want to research further, the post-2017 terror attacks targeting Muslims/Muslim migrants are: 2017 Finsbury Park attack, 2019 Stanwell attack, 2022 Dover firebombing, 2024 Worcester hotel stabbing, 2025 Bristol axe attack Terror attacks are not always immediately declared by police

🧨Over the past 3 years, there has been a pattern of violence against Muslims increasing after what the police call "trigger events" eg. Southport attack, sex offences by asylum seekers, Belfast stabbing 🗣️senior police leaders have been raising concern about the impact of "polarisation" and fake news

🚨Those figures only run up until March 2025 - the next batch is out in October - so do not capture several high-profile incidents over the past year 🚔Those include the rape of a woman in Walsall who was targeted in the mistaken belief she was Muslim, and verbally abused and degraded on that basis

🔥Outside of terrorism (under UK's legal definition), Muslims have been targeted during wider racial violence, including the riots in Belfast and after the Southport attack 🚓The most recent police figures show a 19% annual rise in hate crime against Muslims, who are the most-targeted religious group

A thread on trends in violence against Muslims in the UK🧵 📆Since 2017, around 1/4 declared terror attacks in Britain have targeted Muslims or Muslim migrants ⌛Such attacks have become more frequent since 2022 ⚖️There have also been several plots targeting Muslims, including foiled attacks on mosques

Four Edinburgh MSPs have issued a joint statement calling out a series of 'horrific' and 'chilling' suspected anti-Muslim attacks which left five people injured in the capital

Zack Polanski has slammed right-wing politicians' 'hatred' after five people were left injured following an 'anti-Muslim' attack in Edinburgh

'Reform UK has now shifted to openly endorsing the very white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which was weaponised by far-right groups to orchestrate targeted attacks on minorities in Belfast.' Nafeez Ahmed, via Byline Times

An international perspective of World Refugee Day www.thenational.scot/politics/262... My piece on the egregious worldwide race to the bottom and what you can do and keep doing @scotnational.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

We must stand with New Scots in the face of division and hate www.thenational.scot/politics/262...

When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire

⭕️ Gaza Slides Back Toward Famine as Community Kitchens Run Dry Displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis took to the streets banging empty pots this week to protest cuts to food aid, as Gaza risks sliding back toward famine, Ultra Palestine reported. The communal kitchens that thousands rely on for...

Earlier: Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported Israeli attacks have killed 4,057 people & wounded 12,121 across the country since March 2 🔸 The ministry said 83 people were killed & 141 wounded in Fri.'s escalation alone 🔸 Among the dead were 17 people in Nabatieh & 10 in Harouf, including a child...

“The bullets are lodged in the bone of his skull,” but Israel is denying the medical equipment & specialist care needed to treat the 16-year-old boy in Gaza. Health authorities have also denied him a medical referral abroad, w/ nearly 18,000 patients remaining on the waiting list to leave, & only...

Open Day in the Allotment A great celebration of World Refugee Day #Permaculture

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

🚨Exciting news: Plaid Cymru are joining The National. From tomorrow, various members of the Senedd for the party will be writing a monthly column, designed to share information about Wales's constitutional journey with a Scottish audience.

To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...

Enduring lesson: when given a choice between their immediate comfort and frying their children‘s future in oil or a habitable future, people chose to burn their kids’ future. Other choices are vital and must be presented as such even if its already way too late. #AberdeenSouth

Andy Burnham wins, warning Labour this is its "final chance". The people I met in Makerfield were engaged on local and national issues, warm, not cynical despite rightly feeling politics hadn't changed anything for them, and happy to engage. As one elderly lady said, "we all need to live together".

As Conservative candidate and now MP, Douglas Lumsden, is also an MSP for the North East, he will have to resign from Holyrood within 49 days. That will bring in James Adams as his party replacement, as the only new Conservative MSP. This will also make Holyrood majority (65) new vs returning MSPs.

Zimbabwe bill to scrap presidential elections sparks backlash https://aje.news/meh4ex