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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 Accountability & Governance practitioner & researcher | International aid & development | Children’s Panel Member in Scotland | cargo-bike/bakfiets owner | Glasgow-based | parent to a 4yr old
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every column about pete hegseth, irregardless whatever the scandal of the day is, should end "also he doesn't believe in germs and never washes his hands." just keep tacking it on with the other stuff because it's so weird and gross

submitted 38 days ago • 24 comments

Organisers of the London marathon show more leadership than the government. And should be applauded for doing so. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

submitted 38 days ago • 140 comments

In Scotland schools are required by law to have uniforms that can be bought in supermarkets and are not allowed to penalise students for not wearing uniform

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

submitted 42 days ago • 459 comments

Everyone has been talking today about the film #Conclave and rightly so. But the film everyone should be watching is The Two Popes, the most beautiful two-hander, in which two of Britain’s greatest actors Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce play Benedict and Francis: www.imdb.com/title/tt8404...

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

Happy Easter from Loch Leven in the Highlands

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

submitted 46 days ago • 159 comments

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

submitted 46 days ago • 907 comments

Here's an alternate fantasy author who isn't an absolute cunt: Ursula K Le Guin

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

While I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country.

submitted 56 days ago • 161 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 57 days ago • 1112 comments

I'm optimistic that Starmer wouldn't do a deal with the US that would rule out an EU deal, but it's worth building pressure on Labour to make damn sure they don't. They're perfectly capable of making the most disasterous decisions www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

submitted 59 days ago • 64 comments

one day soon democrats might realise that "burn them all to the ground and salt the earth so this can never happen again" is the message people actually want to hear

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

My child attends a forest school so this season is all year for me - there are far too many sticks in my flat “I brought you this new special stick” they’re apparently all special so I can’t throw them out

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

“Benefit cuts with a red rosette are no different from those stained blue. And yet cuts signed off by a Labour government are in a sense particularly brutal. They come with a tinge, not just of fear, but despair and betrayal.” My col. in tomorrow’s paper www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 75 days ago • 22 comments

I’m calling for the Scottish government to invest in A&E opt-out HIV testing in Glasgow. This game-changing approach to HIV testing will help to save lives and end new cases of HIV in Scotland by 2030. @thtorguk.bsky.social @chriscreegan.bsky.social @waverleycare.bsky.social

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

With Lowe’s whip withdrawn, the proportion of Reform MPs jailed for viciously assaulting a woman now stands at 25%.

submitted 87 days ago • 106 comments

How is my kid 4 years old tomorrow?! This should not be allowed

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 Scotland stands in full solidarity with Ukraine, and we will continue to unequivocally support Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity. At this moment of uncertainty, let me be clear: Ukraine must sit at the table of any peace negotiation.

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

I’ll drive to feckin Balmoral and hold up Janey’s sign if they try and hide that Bawbag up there with the King

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

In the end, our generation has often wondered what we would do when confronted with fascism. It's here now.

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

Europe & the free world need to grow the fuck up right now and accept this horrific truth: As long as Trump & Vance are in the White House, America is not with you. With Trump & Vance in the White House, America is with Putin. Free world, so many of us Americans are so sorry.

submitted 94 days ago • 85 comments