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Great news for nature! The Scottish Government has refused plans for a golf course on Coul Links that would have irreparably damaged this precious place.  Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who spoke up to save Coul Links. Your voices made a difference.

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries. #Glasgow #Belfast #London

A bridge linking County Down in Northern Ireland with County Louth in the Republic. That's a POSITIVE story about Warrenpoint, rather than an ambush that caused the heaviest British Army losses during the Troubles. "We've heard about it for years ... Now it's hard to explain - it's exciting."

🌱 The “just transition” was the promise that, as Scotland phases out North Sea oil and gas production, our workers and communities wouldn't be abandoned as the miners were. 🔎 Here are some of the key UK gov energy decisions undermining that promise: www.believeinscotland.org/how_the_uk_g...

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

I’m a journalist. Israel detained me for documenting the olive harvest in the West Bank. https://mondoweiss.net/2026/10/im-a-journalist-israel-detained-me-for-documenting-the-olive-harvest-in-the-west-bank/

Israeli settlers, all men, brutally attacked a US journalist, a woman, in an attempted lynching. The Israeli military provided the attackers with cover using tear gas and machine gun fire. Palestinians intervened to rescue her from being beaten to death.

Of all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: PROOF is now *unlocking* this major breaking news, because bots are swarming online lying about its contents. Here’s the truth, fully sourced: Trump agents working for Israel are covering up murders of Americans—and Trump refuses to stop this wartime Treason. Please SHARE this.

As ever, with the Tories you just have to follow the money 🤑

Israel has been desperate to close the British Consulate in Jerusalem for years. Staff there were viewed as too sympathetic to the Palestinians.

Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...

'When our educational institutions make decisions to cut courses on our indigenous languages, history and folk practices due to them no longer being profitable, it seems even culture is not immune from the phenomenon of enshittifcation.' Lynne Campbell, via Bella Caledonia

And even if the cost is arguable, surely the UK democratic deficit must convince fair-minded opponents of independence that a vote is right and a mandate for it exists.

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While we're talking about diesel, just a friendly reminder 👇👇👇

It’s fascinating that English progressives seem so keen to celebrate Burnham as a leftwing hope whereas in Scotland the view is ‘nope, it’s just words - prove it or beat it’. Independence provides a completely different prism. I feel genuine sympathy that English progressives seem to feel so trapped

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Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials

Rift Valley Farms, supporting Palestinian producers. Excellent delivery service from their Scottish based partners.

Keep going you despicable fool. The more you align with far-right extremists the less chance of you ever achieving power

This old wall on the banks of the Clyde in the East End of Glasgow might not look like much, but it's got a great story behind it, and its one that still has an impact to this day. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory #harviesdyke #publicrightofway

Just saying: Grangemouth Refinery spent decades keeping Scotland moving. Diesel was 24% of its output, supplying 65% of Scottish fuel. Then April 2025 hit. The UK Labour Government sat on its hands and let Scotland’s only crude refinery die. A catastrophic failure of energy security.

Unite the Clans organised an anti-immigration rally on Glasgow Green in July. On Monday, a post on the group's Facebook page posited an idea to 'restore our country' - national socialism. For me, I doubt any of these nutters ever attended a history class at secondary school. #RightWingFascists

Paddy Power founder accuses Betfred billionaire of ‘scaremongering’ over tax rises. Scaremongering is used to squeeze concessions from govt. The industry should not be allowed to book profits offshore. Need higher taxes, the industry does not bear the social cost of profits. archive.ph/3ZCmq

Dear Police Scotland, now do the money laundering barbershops and car washes.

🇺🇸📛 Trump holds an event at the White House, but the broadcast is silent: journalists boycott the administration. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and even Fox News have stopped participating in the press pool.

Your reminder that James Watt, one of the founders of Brewdog, the company which was subsequently found guilty of bullying and not paying their employees the minimum wage, is now a prominent Reform supporter! He, like their products, is full of wind and piss! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This beggars belief. What sort of far-right idiot is attacking RNLI volunteers and why aren’t the likes ofFarage, Tice, Braverman and Jenrick, condemning this outrageous state of affairs? As I said earlier, it would help if King Charles spoke out praising the work of the RNLI!

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1925: Frida Kahlo forgets her umbrella. That simple, everyday annoyance turned out to be a life-changing event that put her on a trajectory to become a world-renowned artist. She became a sharp social critic who used her art as the canvas for political dissent. /1

How a guilty admission by James O’Brien nails the problem of England’s domination over Scotland, Wales & NIreland The LBC presenter had the courage to admit he knows little about the other home nations and it’s coloured his politics. Therein lies the rot in the union In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

The Battle of Stanhope Park one of the least known battles of the War of Scottish Independence is one of the most important. It brought about the treaty with England that re-affirmed Scottish independence. Yet there was no battle, but a standoff with a raid by the Black Douglas on the English camp.

This is about trump, but exactly the same narrative applies to Reform and their uneducated flock.

I was a bit surprised I was allowed to write this in the “Press & Journal”. Bob Cooney was a genuine north east hero of the left. It meant he didn’t have an easy life, but he was a tough nut! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-time...

Does anybody else think: Fuck the bond markets? I don’t care about a group of rich city boys making even more cash. The sooner we stop pandering to these post-yuppy Yahoos, the more we might start focusing on investment in areas which help the majority, not a small clique!

“Mmm, nice cigar. Anyway, Laura, old bean, I have to admit I’ve been at lots of interviews and meetings where, frankly, I wasn’t listening.” Wait, WHAT! This drivel from the ghastly Laura Kuenssberg sums up why so many of us loathe the BBC and don’t even trust their weather forecast any longer!

The Alternative for Deutschland is formally classified as ‘far right extremist organization’ by Germany’s domestic intelligence service So why is BBC news calling alternative AfD ‘hard right’?