John Edward 🙊
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'What a child can comprehend and what shall not yet be absolutely uninteresting to the grown reader.' Now with @scga.bsky.social Got the June 2016 1000 metre stare 🇪🇺 🇨🇴
Journalists who follow me - you can have this one for free, if you get a chance to ask any of them a q.
Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm old enough to remember Nigel Farage ruling out any association with Le Pen's lot "now or in the future" because he considered them "far right". But I guess that's ok now. Here is what he said in 2013 and 2015.
It’s really a very good interview and you should read it all www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
theguardian.com
Asylum backlog halved to 40k. Peaked 150k in 2023 with processing suspended (on the fiction that 30-50k people could be removed to Rwanda, when the attempt to send 300 failed).
I think the sorry phenomenon of gig-filming is 90 percent about socials, rather than believing you'll ever watch it back. I feel like in the past decade or so we've been reprogrammed bit by bit to believe if we don't share what we're doing with everyone, it almost doesn't count as doing it at all.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2w agohonestly I think literally all gigs should do this, sincerely don't understand what people believe they're achieving by not meaningfully watching a gig and instead filming a video they will obviously never watch again, hateful behaviour, get rid
imagine a world where Bezos and Musk gave the same percentage of their net worth to direct service - like physically putting books in kids’ hands and equipment in school band rooms - as she did, instead of putting their profits into their weird self-insert scifi fanfic
THE MIDDLE EAST – WHERE ARE WE NOW? Panel discussion on recent events in the #MiddleEast Saturday 5th September 2026, the Royal Scots Club, 29-31 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh EH3 6QE, 11 am to 2 PM lnkd.in/eeFTrd2E
LI Scotland - Liberal International British Group
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
Secret Edinburgh@secretedinburgh.bsky.social · 3w agoWithout downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
The Asian dad Tommy Robinson falsely accused of being a predator has launched a defamation crowdfunder www.crowdjustice.com/case/tommy-r...
HOLDING TOMMY ROBINSON TO ACCOUNT
I never expected to end up here. Tommy Robinson's accusation about me, a Glaswegian dad, went viral before it was ever checked - and I'm not willing to just let that stand, or let him do it again.
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🗳️Brexit: Ten years on Thursday 27 August, 9.45am ‐ 11am Co-hosted with us, @uofgpolicy.bsky.social. With our expert panel: @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social @katyhayward.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social Tickets: festivalofpolitics.citizenticket.co.uk/events/the-f...
Brexit - ten years on - Buy tickets
Where does the UK, and Scotland, stand in its relationship with the European Union? What are the risks and opportunities in terms of politics, policy, the economy, and security in the coming years?
festivalofpolitics.citizenticket.co.uk
We've been delighted by the response to the idea of bringing the conversation around human rights up to date with our podcast 'Could we do more to secure human rights' We put our 6 questions to John Edward, Head of Operations of Scottish Council on Global Affairs. Listen🎙️⬇️ youtu.be/MXRv2HMqRQw
Could we do more to secure Human Rights | John Edward
YouTube video by Songs of the People
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Your occasional reminder that Reform are never going to form a government.
The House of Lords Constitution Committee is starting a wide-ranging inquiry into strengthening our constitutional safeguards - as proposed by (Lord) Peter Hennessy. Look East, look West, and see the urgency. Written evidence requested by 28th of September. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
The UK’s constitutional safeguards inquiry launched by Lords Constitution Committee - Committees - UK Parliament
The House of Lords Constitution Committee has today published a call for evidence for its inquiry into the UK’s constitutional safeguards. It is inviting interested individuals and organisations...
committees.parliament.uk
In the style of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the cautious backing away from you-know-who continues....
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.AP Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains her shift on Russia’s war and wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own.
The government will take a £12 billion hit on the public finances if/when it belatedly reduces the current [unrealistically high] OBR projection of net migration averaging 235k for next 3 years to about 130-150k. (But it could double that cost if it wants to stay closer to zero net migration).
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
A fitting session on opening day of the XXIII Commonwealth Games Team @scottishgov.bsky.social on Sports Diplomacy. Many thanks to Gayle McPherson, Helen Phillips MBE, Grant Jarvie, Ivy Kondowe-Chinwanga and Stephen Gethins - and broad and expert guest list. #CommonwealthGames #SportsDiplomacy
The USAID Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget allocated funds toward development and humanitarian support, including approximately *$8 billion* in humanitarian aid specifically.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2mo ago🇺🇸 Fresh US strikes have triggered air defences in Tehran after President Donald Trump warned he was "not finished" with a war with Iran that has already cost his nation $37.5 billion. ➡️ u.afp.com/SrQ8
Hamish Falconer will lead on intergovernmental + European relations, working from the Cabinet Office + FCDO (attending cabinet).
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe PM has now appointed the full Cabinet + those attending Cabinet (with further non-Cabinet appointments tomorrow).
What a thoroughly unserious country we are sometimes
Anita Chaudhuri@anitachaudhuri.bsky.social · 2mo agoDevastating news. Glasgow School of Art has scrapped plans to restore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s iconic buildlng. Doesn’t reflect well on the U.K. By contrast, Notre Dame Cathedral was almost lost to fire in 2019 but reopened in 2024 following a 5-year rebuild www.sundaypost.com/fp/glasgow-s...
Small boats to UK now down 45% year on year to mid-July. The BBC continues to (mistakenly) tend to hypothesise a weather effect. It is neither weather nor UK govt policy. It is a change in EU-wide flows.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Laurel And Hardy: Who Me?
ALT: Laurel And Hardy: Who Me?
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Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · 2mo agoStop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
As the Scottish Kings and the Jacobites were familiar with, the French did not turn up. ⚽️
Good article on the EU fingerprint scanning at airports fiasco. Didn’t even realise you’re supposedly able to register at a kiosk to speed things up for three years. Didn’t see these on recent trips to Split and Copenhagen... but apparently they don’t work anyway! www.thetimes.com/business/com...
The simple reason EES ruined your summer holiday: no one tested it
The EU’s Entry/Exit System is causing ‘mega queues’ and businesses say it’s ‘not fit for purpose’. Who are the companies behind it?
thetimes.com
Ringgo is one of the best apps on my phone – an example of genuine technological progress making people's lives easier. Remember carrying around loads of pound coins? Only an idiot would want to go backwards.
A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea
