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"The Trump organisation’s track record of broken promises coupled with unsustainable hyperbole does not bode well for the second course" theferret.scot/trump...

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Two types of horsepower... A remarkable image of the RMS Queen Mary, framed by plough-horses, leaving the Clyde, taken from a field in Renfrewshire, on 24 March, 1936, by an unnamed 'stringer', for Picture Post magazine.

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To the vatniks, campists, fascists and self-described "pragmatists" saying "maybe Trump has got a point": There is one nation and one nation alone that should decide the terms for peace in Ukraine. Ukraine.

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

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My latest Guardian column on anti-obesity drugs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Museum job! 📜 🗃️ #histSTM National Museums Scotland, Assistant Curator, Technology - part of the truly fabulous NMS Science & Technology Department Full time, permanent - details here: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/671171 Deadline soon: 2 March

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The great Roberta Flack has died at the age of 88. We'll always have the ballads - such as "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly" - but I loved it when she showed her soulful strut and joined Donny Hathaway. They made it sound effortless! variety.com/2025/music/n...

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Temu sellers dodge millions in tax — by pretending to be UK firms Rogue traders grab details of innocent British small businesses to avoid VAT. Billions of public revenue lost. Tax dodges result in unfair competition, threaten jobs. Make platforms liable for lost VAT. archive.ph/cmiJZ

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‘The Life of a Gay Imam’ I met Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed just days after one of the world’s few other gay imams was shot dead. He tells me what the Koran really says about LGBT people, and calls for an Islamic reformation My @heraldscotland.bsky.social Big Read www.heraldscotland.com/news/2495632...

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Wise man…

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One option is to coordinate with other leading scientific institutions globally to establish a shared framework for addressing ethical violations by high-profile figures. Acting together, learned institutions may mitigate the risks of appearing politically motivated'.

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Dear men of the world, I wrote this because I know too many men who still think it’s weird to have conversations with each other about how we feel. It isn’t weird or weak, it is stronger and better to be open and talk. We are all going through something. www.wildway.info/p/how-garden...

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"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled" - Mark Twain #MAGA #Trump

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It's abundantly clear what the NHS needs: 1) adequate funding so we have adequate staffing 2) an end to profiteering privatisation, and 3) liveeable wages to stem the haemorrhaging of staff

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It is time to end the special relationship with Trump Donald Trump in the White House: a relationship with a dishonest sexual predator and convicted criminal isn't a relationship. It's abuse centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/it-i...

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How can @bbcr4today do an entire item about keeping NHS data private without telling people the horse has already bolted. Never mentioned that the government, despite protest & huge concerns, sold our NHS data to US firm Palantir, formerly run by Musk’s mate, Peter Thiel www.bmj.com/content/386/...

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Trump’s statements over the past 24hrs diminish him, the great office he holds and the beautiful country he leads. This may yet come to be seen as one of the darkest and most craven periods in American history. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes. 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

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This is completely and utterly wrong. Scotland stands with Ukraine. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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Magic Money Tree. UK govt to hand £130bn to Bank of England to pay stealth subsidy to banks. Govts gave £895bn QE to speculators, banks profited. Govt reversing QE, selling bonds at loss, covering BoE losses from rising interest rates and the unwinding of QE, banks make billions.

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Definitely this!👇

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Absolutely

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'If you tax the rich they will leave' is an admission that the rich are mercenary and predatory, that we are held hostage by them. Tax the self-serving rich who feed on our country like vampires, tax their assets, their income, and close every kind of tax evasion and avoidance loophole.

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Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️

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Over 2,000 years ago, people carved and decorated thousands of natural outcrops and boulders across Scotland - but why? 🎨 On 21 February, join @joanavaldez.bsky.social online to hear more about rock art and its important role in prehistoric lives: digitscotland.com/events/rock-...

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’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

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100%

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Happy Thumb Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate! A Finnish word for someone who is clumsy (or has butterfingers) is poropeukalo, which means "reindeer's thumb." And a Finnish word for everyone's favourite little dumpling bird, the wren, is peukaloinen. It means "thumbling"

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We need to change the way of things. The world is in such a precarious state, we have to declare our allegiance to what is right, not to what is traditionally expected of us. We need to immediately realign ourselves to our European neighbours & call out the vile, tawdry dealings of Trumps America.

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"Research by scientists from the RSPB and University of Cambridge... ...has found that UK solar farms managed for nature could benefit birds, including threatened species like Corn Buntings, Greenfinches, Yellowhammers, and Linnets." 💚

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Get following the Ken Loach account folks. New film in March too! 👇🏽

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A fantastic article by @peatworrier.bsky.social on the return of the Political dinosaurs

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It’s time to boot nukes out of Scotland #BairnsNotBombs

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DWP research links NHS waiting-lists with rise in disability benefit claimants. Poor healthcare causes disabilities. 41% of disability benefit claimants are on NHS waiting-list; can't get jobs without treatment. UK govt wants to cut benefits, force sick/disabled to work. Must improve healthcare.

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1. A common mistake is to look for ideological consistency on the far right, and to become confused when some of the things it claims to stand for sound positive and even progressive. Here’s a thread on how to understand this. 🧵

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Absolutely incredible, fascinating research on the gender divide - globally, big data - and a brilliant Substack digest from @draliceevans.bsky.social: “global analysis reveals that cross-gender friendships remain rare in societies where male honour depends on female seclusion.”

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Pressure is growing on the Royal Society to expel Elon Musk from its fellowship after more than a thousand scientists signed an open letter expressing dismay at its lack of action on the matter www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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Question Time last night was pretty fierce. And had to be. There's a deliberate effort now to shift the ground: towards appeasement, inhumanity and authoritarianism. Once more, we must resist it. We must fight hard for kindness. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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Massive kudos to @stellacreasy.bsky.social for calling this out and tabling an Urgent Question today.

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