EXCLUSIVE: Objections against plans to build the world's biggest AI data centre campus in Dumfries and Galloway will be hidden by the local authority, The National can reveal
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Live in Glasgow. Into world cinema, books, hillwalking, Scottish independence and Celtic. Gaelic learner. I practice mindlessness.
The Oasis tour documentary, Don't Look Back in Anger is tremendous, one of the best music documentaries I've seen. You don't need to enjoy Oasis to like it. It's about community and the power of music to bring people together. The shots of fans joyously singing or hugging each other is beautiful.
The 'protectors of women and girls' are at it again.
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 2d agoPolice in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
The Unequal Union: Why the Broken Promises of 2014 Have Left Scottish Pensioners Exposed There is a distinct moment when a lifetime of observing British politics collides with an undeniable, infuriating reality. I am 60 years old, living in Scotland, and as I stand on the cusp of retirement, 👇
A statue of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled in Glasgow city centre, nearly 40 years after the city renamed a street in his honour
Statue honouring Nelson Mandela is unveiled in Glasgow
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Could Asda or Morrisons vanish within a decade? It will be a blow to many. Both owned by private equity, loaded with debt, cut staffing/wages, low investment, strangled by asset-stripping, struggling to compete, losing market share. What future for others being devoured by private equity?
Supermarket shake-up: why Asda or Morrisons could vanish within a decade
Talks between Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have set industry tongues wagging, with analysts saying the market is ripe for change
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
If you vote Labour today, the government will shift to the right. If you vote Green today, the government will be forced to shift to the left. This is a no-brainer.
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
The race for Britain’s car market is wide open — for now ft.trib.al/XFYVWil | opinion
The race for Britain’s car market is wide open — for now
All manner of trade barriers loom
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A 44-year-old Palestinian man was killed during Israeli settler assaults on olive harvesters in the West Bank.
Palestinian killed, several wounded in Israeli pogrom in occupied West Bank
A 44-year-old Palestinian man was killed during Israeli settler assaults on olive harvesters in the West Bank.
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Israel marks the 3rd anniversary of the October 7th attack by murdering a rescue worker who was trying to save injured people shot by the IDF.
Makes your blood boil thinking about the wholesale corruption, notwithstanding that the majority of it was unfit for purpose, leading to many more deaths of nursing staff and patients… bsky.app/profile/adyb...
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Is France jettisoning neoliberalism? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...
Is France jettisoning neoliberalism?
I watched a series of news broadcasts last night, all of which referred to what is now being called a polycrisis in France. As a consequence, the thought occurred to me that France might be leading th...
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My dad has Parkinson’s and goes to his centre 3 days a week. Other than when i take him out this is really the only time he leaves the house and i know he’ll be gutted if it gets taken away from him. If you can give this a sign/share i’d really appreciate it as would my wee da 🤞🏼🥰 c.org/TyXfhrBsf7
Sign the Petition
Stop the closure of Glasgow day centres
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PRESS RELEASE | A Valencia court has acquitted 11 Greenpeace activists who faced criminal charges over a 2021 peaceful protest against a fossil gas shipment at the Port of Sagunto. act.gp/4j3pwUgA
Sagunto 11 acquitted: Spanish court rejects prosecution bid to criminalise peaceful protest - Greenpeace International
Valencia, Spain – A Valencia court has acquitted 11 Greenpeace activists who faced criminal charges over a 2021 peaceful protest against a fossil gas shipment at the Port of Sagunto.[1]…
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We need to stop treating prison as the default answer to offending I pressed Neil Gray on the huge cost of HMP Glasgow and the high levels of reoffending If we want safer communities, we need to reduce reoffending. That means investing in community justice, rehabilitation, housing and support 1/2
NEW: BBC Scotland is to become online only as the broadcaster pushes ahead with sweeping cuts aimed at saving £500 million 🚨
BBC Scotland ‘to become online only’ in major cost-cutting shake-up
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Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Sheep densities across Europe. Native to southwest Asia, these domesticates are possibly the most effective means of killing off forests and other natural ecosystems ever devised.
One from the archives (July 2023) "Is it representative of your impartiality to consistently call Israel an apartheid state?" "Its representative of the facts" ".. so you're.. saying Israel is a racist state?" "Yes" The head of Amnesty is clear. Israel is an apartheid state
There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland. The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people. Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians". It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!
🚨 According to the Nuffield Trust, the implications of the UK/US trade deal on medicines, could leave the UK with 13,500 fewer NHS staff by 2028 & a further £660m of cuts from other areas of NHS spending "the government has refused to publish its impact assessment on the deal."
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.
North Lanarkshire councillors reject a motion seeking scrutiny of AI data centres’ impact on power, water, noise, jobs, planning and community benefits
North Lanarkshire councillors reject motion seeking scrutiny of AI data centres
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