I wander around a bit and do stuff.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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NEWS: The Bernat Klein Studio (1972) is ready to progress ‘from rescue to restoration’, as the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust (SHBT) has launched the search for a conservation design team to lead the restoration of the Peter Womersley’s Category A-listed modernist building, near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders.
The three-storey pavilion, where textile designer Bernat Klein (1922-2014) created fabrics worn by Coco Chanel and Jean Shrimpton, has been abandoned for more than two decades and was added to C20’s Risk List in 2015. Following decades of decay, it was finally purchased by a coalition of Scottish heritage and design bodies for £279,000 last summer.
The Contract Notice is published on Public Contracts Scotland with a submission deadline of noon on Friday 11th September.
Dr Samuel Gallacher, Director of SHBT, said: “The Bernat Klein Studio is one of the most significant buildings of its era in Scotland, and this appointment of a design team is the point at which we progress from rescue to restoration.”
“Indeed, this is a seminal project for SHBT, a new approach to conserving modernist architecture. We are looking for a team with the skill and imagination to bring a remarkable building back into use, and to do justice to the legacies of both Bernat Klein and Peter Womersley.”
The restoration of the Studio is being led by Scottish Historic Buildings Trust in partnership with the National Trust for Scotland and the Bernat Klein Foundation. The procurement process to select the design team is being supported by The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). The first phase of the project to restore the Studio is being supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund alongside a range of other funders, including The Architectural Heritage Fund, Pilgrim Trust, Path Fund, William Grant Foundation and Scottish Borders Council.
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Mark my words here. I'm not exaggerating. Nathan Cofnas is a Zionist, a hereditarian supremacist and part of the heavily-funded 'Dark Enlightenment' movement, initiated by Nick Land and fronted by Thiel, Yarvin and Tech Bros. They seek the end of democracy and a shift to technocratic population control. Jason Arday was a carefully selected vulnerable target, the first of a campaign designed to discredit the university system and eventually all public institutions. This system, poorly managed by naive, comfortable liberals, is currently being targeted by private equity. It will take more than DEI vanity to defend it. The left must toughen up its intellect and its politics. This is a serious, rich and powerful enemy operating at a global level, probably more powerful, and certainly cleverer and more insidious, than anything we saw in the 1930s. nitter.gq/L_A_D_J/status/2088588…
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Gotta hand it to the Guardian, getting a posh graduate of a £33k pa private school, who became Guardian fashion editor at 27, to write a piece on one of the key achievements of working class organised labour is *chefs kiss*
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There’s a comforting story about how humanity escaped poverty: capitalism.
One variable, one chart, one conclusion. Incomes were flat for ten thousand years, then capitalism arrived and the line went up.
It’s wrong, spin, myth. A lie.
Let me tell you why🧵>>>
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As Japan and its Western Allies remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki-
Far fewer even know what happened 8 years earlier in Nanking (Nanjing), China,
It was one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, carried out by the Imperial Japanese army.
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese captured the then Chinese capital, what followed over the next six weeks is known as the Nanking Massacre, sometimes also called “The Rape of Nanking.”
Over 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were brutally killed, for scale thats more than the combined death tolls of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Tens of thousands of women and little girls (some as young as 8, others very elderly) were systematically raped, Japanese soldiers even held contests to see who could rape the most victims.
Entire families were bayoneted, machine gunned, buried alive, or burned to death, soldiers used bound prisoners for bayonet practice.
A third of the city was burned to the ground. A small group of Westerners, including an American missionary, a German businessman (who was a also a Nazi Party member), and doctors, created a “Safety Zone” that probanly saved an estimated 250,000 lives while the massacre raged around them.
The world watched as American and European newspapers ran front page stories, many diplomats also sent frantic cables as newsreels showed the horrific aftermath.
After the war, many of Japan’s top generals were tried and some hanged, but many perpetrators, and even the royal family member who allegedly issued the “kill all captives” order, were never punished.
Today the death toll is still debated in modern Japan, some politicians downplay or even deny it, which of course reopens old wounds with China and even Korea every few years.
Why does this matter in 2026?
Well, Because remembering Nanking isn’t about simply appointing balme, its about understand history and how it shapes modern policy and perceptions.
If you only knew about Pearl Harbor from the Pacific War, I hope this informs your thinking on the subject, and most importantly the suffering of millions of Chinese cIvillians during WW2. Up to 20 million Chinese died in that catastrophic conflict, second only to the Soviets.
It may also go some way to helping understand how Chinese / Japanese relations are colored by the past. As you now see, With very good reason.
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Sickened by the news that Jeff Bezos’ consortium has bought roughly a third of Liverpool Football Club.
Many fans have rightly focused on Amazon’s anti-union practices, its treatment of workers, and the fear that Liverpool will become just another asset in a billionaire’s portfolio. Those concerns are real.
But there is something even darker at the heart of this deal.
Amazon is a central partner in Project Nimbus, providing cloud and AI services to the Israeli state. While Israel carries out a genocide against the Palestinian people, Amazon’s technology helps underpin the infrastructure that makes it possible.
And now that fortune is buying its way into Anfield.
So ask yourself: what does it mean when a club built on solidarity - a club that stood with the Hillsborough families against the establishment, that has always claimed to stand with the oppressed, that prides itself on being different - welcomes investment from a man whose empire is entwined with Israel’s system of occupation, apartheid and genocide?
Liverpool is more than a business, it’s a community.
Supporters have a voice. We’ve used it before: against the Super League, against ticket price hikes and against owners who forgot what this club stands for.
We MUST use it again.
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Putin knows something about Zelensky that would destroy his credibility completely. He refuses to say it. This is why Western politicians will never understand Russian civilization.
During one of their last conversation, Putin asked Zelensky why he sided with the same Nazis his own grandfather fought against. Zelensky answered. But even now, Putin keeps that response private. He is not telling us what Zelensky said even though it would discredit him completely.
Many of you won't get why. It's not about Zelensky, respect to him or anything like that. It's respect to yourself and your own honor.
Western politicians would tell everything and more. Yeah they might discredit someone but in the long run it won't get anywhere.
Remember, Russian civilization runs much longer than American. It has its code, tradition and culture.
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No. The National Debt is UK National Savings and that stays 100% with the UK.
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Anybody tell me how she ended up in the house of lords,,£370 a day for what,is she bojos daughter, or his dad's? Did she threaten to tell all unless she got there how come the media never mention it? How dare she have the right to vote on policy that affects the people of Britain
If you've done nothing wrong, there is nothing to worry about here, except when you start doing something "right" the government doesn't like, you know, like complaining there's no water.
🚨NEWS: The Met Police plan to install PERMANENT facial recognition cameras on #OxfordStreet
"Plans to turn the newly walkable Oxford Street into a permanent digital police line-up using live facial recognition software would be a mistake.
A face scan is as unique as a fingerprint. The police cannot take your fingerprints when you are not suspected of wrongdoing. Taking a faceprint is no less intrusive just because it happens remotely.
The Mayor (@MayorofLondon) should abandon the plans to roll out Orwellian biometric software which would instead place London in the company of authoritarian regimes."
- Jasleen Chaggar, Senior Legal & Senior Policy Officer
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theguardian.com/world/2026/a…
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🚨NEWS: The Met Police plan to install PERMANENT facial recognition cameras on #OxfordStreet
"Plans to turn the newly walkable Oxford Street into a permanent digital police line-up using live facial recognition software would be a mistake.
A face scan is as unique as a fingerprint. The police cannot take your fingerprints when you are not suspected of wrongdoing. Taking a faceprint is no less intrusive just because it happens remotely.
The Mayor (@MayorofLondon) should abandon the plans to roll out Orwellian biometric software which would instead place London in the company of authoritarian regimes."
- Jasleen Chaggar, Senior Legal & Senior Policy Officer
Read⤵️
theguardian.com/world/2026/a…
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Economist @ProfSteveKeen explains how America could theoretically wipe out household debt by giving every adult roughly $100,000 — with one major condition:
“To get rid of all American household debt, for example, leaving corporate debt where it is, you’d need to give every American adult about $100,000. That would not create money, because you’d get the money on condition you pay down your private debt. So it would be a way of not creating money, but reducing the debt burden. I can work it out, and technically it works, but it involves such a political shift I can’t see it happening.”
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PoliticsJOE’s Ava Evans has accidentally summarised the liberal establishment’s entire view of the British economy in under sixty seconds.
On Newsnight, she claimed Brexit crippled the night-time economy because importing alcohol became too expensive and venues lost the "transient workers" who used to serve it.
It is the latte-drinking liberal economy in miniature. The who will pick my veg class on a night out: import the booze, import the labour, then call it progress.
Over 730,000 young people aged 16 to 24 were unemployed in the UK on last count with youth unemployment hovering at a grim 16.2 per cent.
Yet rather than asking why hospitality fails to recruit those young people with decent pay, secure hours, and proper conditions, the liberal answer is to lament a shortage of "transient workers".
That reveals the ugly truth of the model they defend. Workers are not treated as human beings whose labour employers must compete for, but as a low-cost economic input.
The same blindness applies to what goes in the glass. Britain lost 137 breweries in 2025 alone, almost three a week.
British brewing remains on its knees.
Saving the night-time economy should not start with cheaper imported booze and an endless pipeline of desperate foreign labour to pour it.
We should try something genuinely radical: brew the beer here, hire our own young people, train them, pay them properly, and build an economy where a 20 year old can actually afford a night out.
That is modern liberalism’s contradiction in one glass.
It weeps for the youngster who cannot afford a pint, while defending an economic model that wants the person pouring it paid as little as possible, preferably imported as “transient labour”, while hundreds of thousands of unemployed British youngsters are treated as somebody else’s problem.
#Brexit
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Angela Rayner accepted £20,000 from an anti-rent control group just weeks before ruling out rent controls to ease the cost of living crisis.
The Labour government remains deeply in the pockets of lobbyists whilst millions languish in poverty and insecure housing.
NEW: Housing Secretary @AngelaRayner took £20,000 in speakers fees from an anti-rent control lobbying group just weeks before ruling out a rent freeze in what campaigners from @LDNRentersUnion are calling a 'clear conflict of interest'
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Very acceptable sucker punch at the end. There's a video like this every day. Imagine how many aren't filmed. The European liberal class are far more enthusiastic about this war than most Ukrainians because they aren't the ones whose fathers, brothers and sons have to die
This is what the typical spontaneous resistance to forced mobilization in Ukraine looks like.
The main cast: women of all ages.
A young woman screaming at the top of her lungs.
An older woman — apparently a local vendor — less agile, but no less determined.
Some spirited guy comes charging in and starts going after the draft officers.
A little dog is barking its tiny heart out, contributing what it can to the resistance.
Sadly, they didn’t manage to save the man. He was shoved into a vehicle and driven away to go perform his “civic duty.”
This is Mykolaiv.
But these days, it could be almost anywhere in Ukraine.
