Citizen. Environmentalist. European. Spatial Planner. Geddesian. Withered Botanist. Lapsed Munro-Bagger.
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The Wrong Way to Tackle a Housing Emergency | My article in 'Bella Caledonia':
#HousingEmergency #PublicPolicy #LateNeoliberalism #ScottishGovernment
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/0…
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I'd rather the SNP's leadership candidates paid for their own campaign stunts.
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Watch this.
Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists.
“We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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If Cymru wants to engage its diaspora, it needs the will to do so and to leverage the assets that already exist. It needs a deliberate plan for outreach and sustained engagement. It needs to realise that its cultural and educational outputs are valuable and unique ✍️Huw Webber nation.cymru/opinion/wales-n…
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1/2 This is crazy: ‘Renfrewshire Council said "predicted tide levels and available forecast data" for the storm did not meet the threshold needed to use flood barriers.” However, look at what came through that night (Cont.):
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8j…
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He must regret his decision to abandon his previous career of hooting righteous words into an empty Commons chamber for his socials.
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2/2 Low pressure 949 millibars was a very deep low. Anticipate storm surge! Combined with the full moon’s spring tide it was an exceptional event. Why was nobody in Renfrew Council or
SGoRR (Scottish Government Resilience Room) monitoring the storm and pulling out all the stops?
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One of the pernicious myths we are fed daily by politicians and the media is that very high-earners are more competent, successful, harder working & thus 'deserving' than the rest of us.
They're not.
"It is astonishing that nobody is taking responsibility for this fiasco. Why has Hayley Valentine, BBC Scotland director, not been fired? Her annual salary at almost £200,000 - more than the First Minister - is safe.
"Valentine was once executive editor of Question Time - the BBC’s most debased programme, a symbol of all that’s wrong with the broadcaster. So you get an idea where her talents lie.
"The BBC Scotland channel has cost taxpayers around £200million since it was launched. Sometimes, it aired shows that literally nobody watched. Zero viewers. What a cosmic joke.
"There was never any real commitment to making the channel work, there was never any thought put into programming. No care, no love, no attention.
"BBC bosses were peasants in a palace. They had the chance to do something great, and blew it.
"No wonder many see it as an act of deliberate self-sabotage." 👇
𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘉𝘉𝘊
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Elon Musk's anti-woke Grok-fueled take on 'The Odyssey' gets called "zombie-like."
A critic for The Telegraph wrote that the footage — made with AI specialists Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker — is “so unsettling you can feel your eyeballs twitch at its sloppy gruesomeness … the glassy-eyed characters, with their expressionless voices, give the episode a zombie-like quality … Penelope looks completely different in each scene … a take on the tale of Troy that deserves to be put to the sword, burned to the ground and hidden forever beneath the sands of time.” bit.ly/47MhisO
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If Hayley Valentine won't depart from @BBCScotland , will she at least take a reduction in salary commensurate with its reduced status and output?🧐
#PublicDisserviceBroadcasting
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"It’s lunacy."
Journalist Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) tells Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) that AI data centres in the US have already caused an unexpected spike in global emissions – and that the proliferation of these climate-wrecking projects could not have come at a worse time.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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The BBC’s Middle East correspondent frames the Israeli elections as Netanyahu against “leftist” and “centrist” figures like Eisenkot, whom she describes as “softly spoken” and “lowkey”.
What she leaves out is that he’s a former general and the architect of the Dahiyeh Doctrine, which calls for disproportionate force and deliberate targeting of civilians and their infrastructure.
In what world is that left wing?
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This is the best article of why Lula was able to turn it around.
Populist FDR style “New Deal” policies in the country, the people of Brazil appreciate. This is the antidote to the right wing populism, oligarch/fascist fkry, consolidation of wealth and power, and use of hatred scapegoating the politically weak and marginalized people. This is to fascism what garlic is to vampires. FDR knew it and used it to beat back the rise of the Fascist NAZI movement in the USA in the 30s. It’s time for a New, New Deal.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…
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In 1991, the poet Sorley MacLean appeared on Muriel Gray's television series, 'The Munro Show', providing Gaelic language input, etymology, and pronunciation guides for Scottish mountain and hill names.
#BBCScotlandMemories No. 6
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Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey and Kate Nevins. A very odd pairing. Also Holyrood is in session.
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#GMB on the banks:
"£45.9bn profit in 2024. They've already generated £21.4bn in the first half of [this] year"
"And on a personal level.. executive bankers are earning in 2 days what it takes a lot of people a year to [earn]"
In 1991, the poet Sorley MacLean appeared on Muriel Gray's television series, 'The Munro Show', providing Gaelic language input, etymology, and pronunciation guides for Scottish mountain and hill names.
#BBCScotlandMemories No. 6
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Esta é a foto que está estampando a vitória de Lula nos principais jornais do mundo (vi no The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian e no The Times).
Bastante representativa para ilustrar a importância de @AndreJanonesMG nesta campanha! Arrisco dizer que sem Janones, Lula não teria virado. E Lula reconheceu isso. Só Alckmin e Janones receberam o microfone para discursar na Paulista.
Não há dúvidas que, descontado o próprio Lula, André Janones é o nome que sai maior desse pleito presidencial. E com altas credenciais para disputar o governo de Minas Gerais pelo PT em 2030.
Por hora, espero que seja nomeado Secretário de Comunicação Social ainda em Lula 3! Tem tudo para conseguir cumprir a promessa que acabou de fazer: garantir que Lula termine o próximo governo com uma aprovação beirando os 90%.
