Can someone ask Mr Trump - since he’s agin this communism thing - if he could explain the 18th Brumaire? Cos, in all honestly, I’ve been struggling with it for more than 40 years and need a Marx expert to explain it to me.

The Ukrainian palace that became Honoré de Balzac’s love shack www.thetimes.com/article/6b1d...

Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Tensions rise over ‘fascist’ parades held across Scotland www.thetimes.com/article/499f...

This is a little story about an old fella in Orkney who befriended seagulls and stray cats and spent a century living at a Napoleonic Wars Martello Tower. But there is more to it than that. www.thetimes.com/article/69ea...

This is a little story about an old fella in Orkney who befriended seagulls and stray cats and spent a century living at a Napoleonic Wars Martello Tower. But there is more to it than that. www.thetimes.com/article/69ea...

Forgive the “subtweet” but it’s endlessly amusing yet dispiriting that 1/the Nazis dominate popular history and teaching , 2/ lots of people have super-strong opinions on fascism and 3/ a terrifying proportion of those opinions are, to use a technical term, irredeemable, unforgivable dogshit.

Tensions rise over ‘fascist’ parades held across Scotland www.thetimes.com/article/499f...

Im not sure it was a good idea to give AI access to the kind of overconfident-but-not-very-clever middle-aged men who “do their own research”.

Ukraine flexes regional might with tougher stance on Belarus www.thetimes.com/article/d40a...

How a rogue surgeon wrecked lives on a remote British island www.thetimes.com/article/3cf1...

Nicholas Rossi, rapist who faked his death, dies in US hospital www.thetimes.com/article/0f36...

Records of boy attacked by crocodile accessed by 40 NHS staff www.thetimes.com/article/003d...

The emperor, the adoption plans and a princess who will never rule www.thetimes.com/article/6fab...

Tartan Army have had ultimate party, but players gave them no big moment www.thetimes.com/article/e265...

Inside the pitched battle for Donbas where Putin loses a ‘brigade a day’ www.thetimes.com/article/0b1e...

This is horrific. bsky.app/profile/theg...

It looks like it will be hotter today in London than the peak hit during the crazy hot summer of 1976. www.thetimes.com/article/3f68...

The Edinburgh attacks were page one or “top slice” stories across the Scottish media, including in the most right-wing news brands.

The Moroccan community in the midst of the Tartan Army www.thetimes.com/article/5dd8...

For a country that claims to have the mightiest military in the world, America sure seems to lose a lot of wars.

Some trivia: after the Russian revolution the real Admiral Grigorovich, sea minister to the Tsar, eked out a living selling paintings to tourists in the south of France. www.thetimes.com/article/7a6f...

Who are the arsonists who attacked Keir Starmer’s properties? www.thetimes.com/article/0343...

What Trump’s Iran deal does and doesn’t do www.thetimes.com/article/78f4...

Gangs of men in black shirts, their brains addled by far-right propaganda, are stoating about Glasgow singing patriotic songs and beating up people they perceive as foreign. There’s a word for that, an Italian one that begins with F.

Belfast riots: mobs burn immigrant homes in modern-day pogrom www.thetimes.com/article/84bb...

I was thinking about this old story of mine this morning, and abour the way football and politics can dovetail in Scotland. www.opendemocracy.net/en/scotland-...

Belfast riots latest: ‘Bad faith actors’ stoking racial tensions, ministers warn www.thetimes.com/article/6151...

I’m Sikh and the son of immigrants. Here’s what I’d say to JD Vance www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Wagner fighters, former GRU and FSB officers and pro-Russian separatists are among those guarding Russia's shadow fleet. With @ftm.nl Dossier Centre and more, we unmasked them: www.thetimes.com/article/46fa...

Somali World Cup referee Omar Artan denied entry to the US www.thetimes.com/article/f565...

Contempt for the poor isn’t new, of course, but my goodness it’s been supercharged by social media. You can now safely abuse everybody on welfare - including the many in low-paying work - as scroungers or layabouts and get congratulated for it by your online friends.

David Sullivan was ‘untouchable’. Now seven women are speaking out www.thetimes.com/article/8c47...

Where can I find out more about the culture of deference to power in US journalism?

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

Armenian PM declares election victory in setback for Russia www.thetimes.com/article/e90d...

The Murrell case demonstrates we cannot be complacent about the risk of corruption happening here in Scotland. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @severincarrell.bsky.social @leaskyd.bsky.social @kathleennutt.bsky.social www.transparency.org.uk/news/corrupt...

I feel the need to once again stress how funny it is that so many of the silliest cyberyoons now routinely cite the silliest cybernats as authorities. Funny, but not unexpected, I’d add.

Why Saudi Arabia is in no rush to sign up to the Abraham accords www.thetimes.com/article/650a...

Sturgeon ‘shut down questions from awkward squad’ www.thetimes.com/article/4da2...

Don’t judge us for taking Russian passports — we want to survive www.thetimes.com/article/44e3...

I feel the need to once again stress how funny it is that so many of the silliest cyberyoons now routinely cite the silliest cybernats as authorities. Funny, but not unexpected, I’d add.

Andrew faces allegation over ‘incident with woman’ at Royal Ascot www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

As Putin again rains death and destruction down on Kyiv, we’re publishing an investigation, based on newly leaked documents, into Russia’s influence operations in Europe. 👇 www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Call of Duty-style system hailed as gamechanger for Ukraine’s war www.thetimes.com/article/6e05...

Trump’s free speech tsar: We’re flooded by complaints from Britons www.thetimes.com/article/93f7...

As Peter Magyar tries to shake up Hungary, what can he learn from Poland? www.thetimes.com/article/3cba...

Actually government buildings did fly the flags of allies in WWII, including of the USSR.

Something you quickly learn as a reporter is that a lot of folk who say they are interested in politics really, really hate political science. This story seems to trigger loathing on both sides of Scotland’s big constitutional divide. Why? Read it and see. www.thetimes.com/article/05e7...

Claudine Longet obituary: wife of Andy Williams who shot her lover www.thetimes.com/article/26a7...