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Libby Brooks
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Guardian Scotland correspondent
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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · Sep 20
“We didn’t take the bait” - a month after Elon Musk amplified anti-immigration misinformation about Lochee, I returned to Dundee to find out how locals have responded

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‘We didn’t take Elon Musk’s bait’: community spirit shines on in Dundee’s Lochee despite billionaire’s comments
Musk amplified anti-immigrant misinformation about a local arrest, but the Dundee town is focusing on inclusivity
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Fair Isle experts told me why Game of Wool rips their knitting…

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Shetland islanders accuse Tom Daley’s Game of Wool of cultural appropriation
Fair Isle practitioners say Channel 4’s knitting challenge is littered with errors about their historic craft and demand an apology
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November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Hard agree - I interviewed Alan Cumming and director Jono McLeod about My Old School a few years ago, it's such a brilliant, gentle dissection of an extraordinary lie and it's consequences
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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NEW: Nicola Sturgeon on leadership. scandal and trolling the trolls podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Nicola Sturgeon on leadership, scandal and trolling the trolls
Podcast Episode · Politics Weekly UK · 07/11/2025 · Bonus · 32m
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November 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Sheku Bayoh family hit back at police federation’s suggestion that public inquiry be downgraded

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Sheku Bayoh family criticise police group’s call to downgrade inquiry
Scottish Police Federation questions whether public inquiry was necessary into death in custody in 2015
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November 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now."

I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce.

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November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Shekuh Bayoh family lawyer hits back as Scottish Police Federation floats finishing stalled public inquiry as a FAI

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Sheku Bayoh family criticise police group’s call to downgrade inquiry
Scottish Police Federation questions whether public inquiry was necessary into death in custody in 2015
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Shona Robison demands 'urgent' talks with Reeves over fears 2p income tax rise would cut Scotland's block grant by £1bn

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Second accidental release of prisoner ‘utterly unacceptable’, No 10 says, as Lammy blames system left by Tories – UK politics live
Lammy, standing in for Keir Starmer, avoided answering questions on the mistaken release during PMQs
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November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Lib Dem members criticise ‘trans-exclusionary’ rule change for party elections

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Lib Dem members criticise ‘trans-exclusionary’ rule change for party elections
Rules on quotas to ensure fair representation of women changed on legal advice in light of supreme court ruling
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October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Flags outside Cameron Barracks removed as thousands sign petition over Inverness asylum seeker plans - @pressandjournal.co.uk reports

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Flags outside Cameron Barracks removed as thousands sign petition over Inverness asylum seeker plans
The authority said there would 'zero tolerance' after a union flag and a Saltire were hung from lampposts on Old Perth Road.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century

Ferry Stores on #Ardnamurchan shuts its doors tomorrow after struggling with a decline in footfall and competition from home delivery vans

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‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
The Ferry Stores, in the remote village of Kilchoan, will shut its doors after struggling to fight off the decline in footfall and the advent of home delivery services
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October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century

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‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
The Ferry Stores, in the remote village of Kilchoan, will shut its doors after struggling to fight off the decline in footfall and the advent of home delivery services
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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MSPs debate new early release plan as Scottish prison population reaches record high - politics live

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Labour MPs furious after being told to abstain on Farage’s 10-minute rule bill proposing ECHR withdrawal – UK politics live
Labour MPs concerned that abstaining makes it look like only the Lib Dems and Greens care about issue
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October 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Reform UK government in London would pose 'existential threat' to Scottish devolution, John Swinney says - politics UK live

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Labour MPs furious after being told to abstain on Farage’s 10-minute rule bill proposing ECHR withdrawal – UK politics live
Labour MPs concerned that abstaining makes it look like only the Lib Dems and Greens care about issue
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October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Panel of MSPs questioned by young people at the Just Transition Summit in Edinburgh this afternoon: how do you challenge misinformation about energy transition?
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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FM John Swinney speaking at @ipprscotland.bsky.social 10th anniversary conference in Edinburgh: argues that after a pattern of undermining devolution by Westminster “our parliament is not strong enough to protect us from a UK government led by Nigel Farage”
October 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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This is such a fine yarn about an audacious Scottish tea fraud from my Science Weekly colleague Nicola Davis

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A strange brew: the case of the man behind an audacious Scottish tea fraud
A charismatic, tweed-wearing grower from Perthshire falsely claimed to be able to create thriving tea plantations in Scotland. His elaborate deception took in luxury hotels, media outlets and tea grow...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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This is such a fine yarn about an audacious Scottish tea fraud, from my Science Weekly colleague Nicola Davis

www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A strange brew: the case of the man behind an audacious Scottish tea fraud
A charismatic, tweed-wearing grower from Perthshire falsely claimed to be able to create thriving tea plantations in Scotland. His elaborate deception took in luxury hotels, media outlets and tea grow...
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Quelling public disquiet is worth extra cost of barracks asylum housing, says No 10, as refugee groups and local politicians in East Sussex and Inverness warn against the plans

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Quelling public disquiet is worth extra cost of barracks asylum housing, says No 10
Government defends prospect of paying more for barracks, saying people ‘don’t want asylum seekers in hotels’
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October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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NEW: Plans to house UK asylum seekers in barracks in Sussex and Inverness are costly and complicated, experts say

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Plans to house UK asylum seekers in barracks are costly and complicated, experts say
Exclusive: Organisations warn using the barracks in Sussex and Inverness may be more expensive than hotels
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October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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‘Divisive’ Rodgers leaves Celtic and is replaced by O’Neill as interim manager
Brendan Rodgers has resigned as Celtic manager with the club eight points behind Hearts in the Scottish Premiership
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October 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Kaye Adams says her name was ‘dragged through the mud’ after BBC Scotland suspension
Radio host removed from morning show after what broadcaster reported as ‘a conduct complaint’
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October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Your Party has secured its first elected representatives in Scotland after three Glasgow councillors defected from the Scottish Greens - politics live

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Plaid Cymru celebrates ‘historic’ Caerphilly byelection after fending off Reform and Labour – UK politics live
Lindsay Whittle seized the Senedd constituency from Labour and resisted a fierce challenge from Reform UK
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October 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Scottish fire engine destined for West Bank may return after 15-month Israeli seizure

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Scottish fire engine destined for West Bank may return after 15-month Israeli seizure
Dundee firefighters request return of donated appliance to avoid Nablus officials having to pay £16,000 Ashdod holding fees
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October 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Know a lot of folks who will be queuing up for this...

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BBC sitcom Two Doors Down to be adapted for the stage with full TV cast
The hit Scottish comedy about suburban neighbours will move from screen to stage next year at Glasgow’s Hydro
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October 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Kaye Adams yet to hear complaint two weeks after being taken off BBC Radio Scotland

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Kaye Adams yet to hear complaint two weeks after being taken off BBC Radio Scotland
Broadcaster was taken off air following what BBC News reported as ‘a conduct complaint’
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October 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM