A company led by overt fascists with clear sympathies and commercial to a US regime that is an adversary should not have access to information about MoD processes, or be awarded any business that puts the MoD in the position of relying on them.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 2d ago

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

#PTFCStatsWatch 👀 - 8 league clean-sheets by October is unprecedented in Partick Thistle history. #COYJ 🇧🇪 ⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️

Top of the league!

A deserted Kelvin Way in the West End of Glasgow turned golden by autumn leaves stripped from the surrounding trees by Storm Boelo as it passes across the city this afternoon. #glasgow #kelvinway #stormboelo #autumnleaves #glasgowtoday

Partick Thistle Football Club is proud to support Show Racism the Red Card's Weekend of Action today. Racism and discrimination of all forms have no place in Scottish football and no place at the WrightKerr Stadium at Firhill. Read more > buff.ly/BDcDvwW

Polls show leftist incumbent Lula closing gap on right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of second round of voting.

What to know as Brazil prepares for tense presidential run-off

Polls show leftist incumbent Lula closing gap on right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of second round of voting.

aljazeera.com

We welcome Angela Scott’s announcement to pause the compulsory redundancy process. We have always been willing to return to the negotiations in good faith and the two week pause allows us to do this with the aim of reaching a position that reduces the number of compulsory redundancies. 1/2

Still ageing like milk

Match day at Firhill Stadium, Glasgow. Home of Partick Thistle since 1909.

I beg your pardon

This metaphor is ridiculously obvious and unsubtle. Fire the writers. They're hacks.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is sad. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s historic World War II globe was broken when Pete Hegseth’s team dropped it while trying to move it into his office.

Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

A few thoughts on the announcement that the Jackdaw gas field development will go ahead 🧵 You'll hear claims today arguing we need Jackdaw for various reasons. Primarily some combination of energy security, perhaps cheaper bills and jobs. We should be sceptical of them.

Karl Marx: the contradictions of capitalism produce the conditions of its own downfall, creating a proletarian class that will emancipate itself from the class of capital and thus inherit the earth The class of capital: not if we torch the earth first, bitch

Sky News@news.sky.com · 5d ago

Controversial Jackdaw gas field expected to be approved

The Guardian's homepage right now... 1. "UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea" 2. World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

There is an increasingly disingenuous narrative peddled in Scotland about the impacts of granting new oil and gas licences on North Sea production levels and job security. Amid this, it’s important to look at evidence 🧵

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

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

The the Institute of Economic Affairs is an anonymously-funded neoliberal think tank whose alumni appear on the BBC virtually every day of the week without viewers having a clue whose interests they represent, in flagrant violation of the BBC's own editorial guidelines. #PoliticsLive

"Many elected officials within Reform believe the party is putting on an acceptable face to get elected, and then would install a British ICE, engage in mass deportations, or enact violent reprisals against civil servants, police officers, and others who it felt had betrayed Britain."

The mask has slipped - now we can see the real, shameful face of Reform

ITV’s documentary reveals the party as a hotbed of racists baying for concentration camps and executions

thenewworld.co.uk

‘Last night of the pogroms’

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 7d ago

GB News is launching GB Music Radio, a 24-hour digital station only playing artists from Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on 2 November. Chief revenue officer Ross Sergeant said this "gives advertisers something genuinely new". radiotoday.co.uk/2026/10/gb-m...

Find it just so typical that rather than Scotland's media explore what public ownership of busses means to the public, or how it works outside of Scotland - or even how it works in our own capital city - the amplified central voices are reactionary businessmen.

The University of Dundee's new principal and vice-chancellor must work to 'stop cruel compulsory redundancies,' the institution's rector, Maggie Chapman, has said

New University of Dundee leadership urged to stop 'cruel' redundancies

thenational.scot

Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.

Alex Gibney@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · last wk.

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

A majority of the 635 children held in Israeli prisons in 2025 were put in solitary confinement, usually for between one and two weeks – some up to eight times. 92 per cent had not been sentenced. A third had not even been charged. The world's highest court says Israel is an apartheid state.

Barbara Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, has donated $2,500 to a super PAC supporting Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. Subscribe to Everything Briefing to receive news and history like this straight to your inbox: everythingbriefing.substack.com/subscribe

In case any #scotpol heads were wondering, the strange little bigot who runs the Brian Spanner account is still doing Normal Posting

Tomorrow's Sunday National front page

Four Reform UK candidates apparently did not disclose how much they spent during their Scottish election campaigns and the value of their donations. Five more seemingly failed to sign off their spending. https://tinyurl.com/4f9xwtjf

I mean it’s not a vetting problem, is it? It’s that it’s a racist party, run by racists, with racist policies, for the benefit of racists. The fact that it turns out to be full of racists is not a glitch

Reform faces questions over candidate vetting after undercover filming

Reform UK says the party has "improved and prioritised its vetting procedures".

bbc.co.uk