writing about February. A reflective interlude between shorter days gone by and spring yet to come. open.substack.com/pub/flissfra...
Rum in February, a month that tests everything
Rain with a dash of more rain
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Fliss Fraser
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Life on the Isle of Rùm, and issues that are sent to try us.
watching the coastguard helicopter do this and hoping it's a training exercise
The proscription of Palestine Action as a terror group may lead to people being wrongly criminalised, a Home Office official has warned
Palestine Action ban may wrongly criminalise people, Home Office official warns
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We don’t actually need another glossy plan about how important the islands are from the Scottish Government, writes Rhoda Meek ✍️ Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban. Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
Absolutely grim, a real milestone in Britain's political history. If there's a route back from this, it will surely require turning our backs on the party that brought this about.
Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge fails
Group will become first direct action protest group to be banned under Terrorism Act after unsuccessful action
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“the real threat to the life of the nation comes not from Palestine Action but from the home secretary’s attempt to proscribe it”
Daniella Lock | Heavy Power
During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to...
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Hello there We are celebrating fifteen years of community ownership this year with an afternoon exhibition of all our achievements and a ceilidh in the evening. All welcome!! Come along and show your support for what a small community can achieve against the odds.
I listened to this, it was shameful. Onay Kaseb from @unitetheunion.bsky.social did well defending the workers right to strike against yet more austerity cuts for the working class
A return to normal@uniteforchange.bsky.social · last yr.BBC #R4Today programme filling its 8:10 am prime time slot with a discussion on the bin strike in Birmingham. With everything that's going on at home and abroad surely we can avoid hearing the odious Nick Robinson seek to confect a manufactured, London Tory take on this. BBC news editor is a Tory