It was a pleasure to meet some remarkable care workers in Dundee today and thank them for the vital work they do. Our Displaced Workers Scheme is delivering up to 45,000 extra hours of care every month, ensuring more people in Scotland can get the care they deserve.

Israeli prison guards have beaten a 71-year-old Palestinian doctor Mazen Al-Rantisi. He was tear-gassed his overcrowded cell and denied vital medication. He is known as the “doctor of the poor” for providing free and low-charge medical care to Ramallah-area residents. He was imprisoned on June 21.

Only liberation is a shared liberation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

#MorningVibe No one is free, until everyone is free. 🖼️ sarahkhorbtli (IG) 🎶 felixrosch (IG) #ArtIsActivism

Have that! Tell me where he’s wrong. I’ll wait.

Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · yesterday

"The politicians basically serve the rich, the wealthy, and their self-interest." Listen to this man in Nigel Farage's constituency.

OMG What a clatty, mingin idiot.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Nothing could be more damaging to our climate and the future of the North East than offering up even more of our North Sea to oil and gas giants. To create well-paid, long-term jobs in the North East and tackle the climate emergency, we must invest in renewables.

Also, men who don't wash their hands. I want an automatic detector which triggers a recorded lecture from my mum. That would see a dramatic increase in red faces and soap usage.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · 13h ago

What is WRONG WITH ALL THESE MEN WHO DO NOT WIPE OR WASH THEIR BOTTOMS???!!!!

Meanwhile, while people are raking the ashes out of their homes, barns, and forests, the fossil fuel companies are raking in the profits. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 13h ago

This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.

Anti-Zionism is now a protected belief under UK law. www.brickcourt.co.uk/news/detail/...

⚡️Putin signs law imposing sweeping restrictions on Russians convicted in absentia. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law imposing sweeping restrictions on Russian citizens living abroad who have been convicted in absentia, including under laws commonly used against Kremlin critics.

Putin signs law imposing sweeping restrictions on Russians convicted in absentia

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 4 signed a law imposing sweeping financial, digital, and consular restrictions on Russian citizens living abroad who have been convicted in absentia, including...

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We need to act now.

Bold Politics@boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every new oil and gas project makes the heatwaves worse.

www.facebook.com/share/r/1E14... the best explanation of Anarchism ever from David Graeber, gone too soon and much missed.

Your occasion reminder that there are now more Surgeons than qualified GPs That GP practice appointments are now 31-35m a month That the number of operations hasn’t changed And the share of NHS funding to GPs has reduced considerably And yet GPs asked to do more whilst hospitals do less 🤷🏻‍♂️

Fascism used to perform solemnity, which allowed for it to be satirised. Now reactionaries beat satirists to the punch with memes by @hugoharvey.bsky.social

Funny fascism: how Trump launders the unthinkable through jokes and memes

Fascism used to perform solemnity, which allowed for it to be satirised. Now reactionaries beat satirists to the punch with memes.

thecanary.co

Newsnight has been degraded that it's verging on another pointless sofa show. It's been sliding for 20 years and here we are.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · yesterday

BBC Newsnight has been branded a 'pale shadow of what it once was' by a leading investigative journalist – so what has gone so wrong? 👀 @stephbrawn.bsky.social and @jameslwalker.bsky.social discuss on this week's Media Watch podcast 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6...

Really? Aviation excluded from climate change targets. No wonder we are not taking this seriously and getting nowhere.

James Dyke@jamesgdyke.info · yesterday

Won't this blow up the UK's climate change targets? Don't worry - government's don't include aviation in their climate change targets! www.gov.uk/government/p...

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

Somehow I don't think it's by chance that Trump reserves his ultimate rudeness for female reporters.

Such absolute crap from the right wing media about the Ceuta incident. It is NOT in Europe and there is no border with the EU that can be accessed from there. It was a Zionist / US staged event. This Double Down News report shines light on what happened. youtu.be/S9UgNsVUwXU?...

British Journalist UNCOVERS SHOCKING Ceuta COVER-UP

YouTube video by Double Down News

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"Dr. Kibret is a highly valued member of the University of Maryland, Baltimore community. He is an effective and beloved teacher, and a highly regarded colleague.”

H.D. Gregg@hdgregg.bsky.social · yesterday

ICE detains University of Maryland "teacher of the year" at Dallas airport www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

Meet Joshua Bonehill-Paine, convicted for harassing a Jewish MP, jailed for promoting an “anti-Jewification” rally, but now selected to stand for the Conservative Party in Somerset. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/08/bade...

Badenoch's new model Tory: a nazi criminal who thought Golders Green needed gassing | Searchlight

Convicted for harassing a Jewish MP, jailed for promoting an "anti-Jewification" rally - but now selected to stand for the Conservative Party in S ...

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These people are criminal thugs and should be treated as such.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Today's front page 📰 Written UK constitution 'must include way out of Union,' Burnham told

My latest blog piece, Burnham's mini bounce has less to do with Labour improving (spoiler alert it hasn't) and more to do with the immolation of Reform UK on a Clacton binfire of Farage's arrogance, greed and entitlement. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/b...

Burnham’s mini bounce

Our visitors have left now. It was lovely to see them. As far as the blog is concerned I’m able to type again. There was a problem with the keyboard on my laptop which has now been repaired. …

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As a Borderer who supports independence people simply don't understand the malign influence the Dukes of Roxburgh and Buccleuch have on the area. John Swinney and local SNP councillors simply shouldn't be showing reverence to these people 😡 www.thenational.scot/news/2642833...

Scottish Duke given private meeting to lobby for £2bn data centre, leaked emails show

A SCOTTISH aristocrat looking to build a £2 billion data centre on his estate has been given a private meeting to lobby decision-makers at the…

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Israeli army detonates 700 tons of explosives near Lebanon's historic Beaufort Castle Lebanese authorities have denied Israeli claims that there are ‘Hezbollah tunnels’ under the Crusader-era fortress

The UK intends to spend £205bn on the Trident Nuclear Defence system. This system is owned, operated and leased from the USA. It is therefore completely useless and should be cancelled.