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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · Dec 24
An image I find myself returning to every Christmas. Long shadows and fairy lights at Glasgow Central, Christmas 1964. Captured by the inimitable Oscar Marzaroli who was waiting for, and found, the magic that day.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Dec 24
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · Dec 24
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · Dec 20
From the CWS ARCHIVE. 20th August 2024.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Dec 19
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.

Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.

Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.

Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after being ordered to repay £148m
In a ruling, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Sebastian Prentis placed the company into liquidation
www.independent.co.uk

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Dec 18
The BBC is a mess, but it’s our mess, and we must defend it from a low-life like Trump

It is for the British people to deal with the BBC over its editorial failings, not some foreign president, whose moral universe puts him on the level of a bag of garbage

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
BBC is a mess but we mustn’t let Donald Trump destroy it
The BBC may be bad, but we need to defend it as the alternative would be far, far worse, argues Neil Mackay
www.heraldscotland.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Dec 16
'Nottingham Trent University – which reported a £2 million deficit – paid its departing vice-chancellor Edward Peck a bonus of £66,000 in his last year in the job....Peck...received a total pay package of £435,000 in 2024-25 – up from £407,000 the year before.'
Vice-chancellor bonuses growing despite sector funding crisis
Universities defend decision to award some vice-chancellors larger bonuses than last year, with one private institution giving boss over £100K
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · Dec 14
‘Stakeknife spymaster living in luxury in France’

In 2003, I unmasked the highest placed spy for British intelligence in the IRA: Stakeknife. As the ‘final report’ into his crimes is published I turn the spotlight on the military intelligence chief whose team ran him

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
How can there be an ending to the Stakeknife saga when no-one has heard from Kerr?
Our Writer at Large Neil Mackay unmasked IRA leader Freddie Scappaticci as the spy Stakeknife in 2003. As the ‘final report’ into Stakeknife’s…
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