via @theguardian.com

This week on Bylines Scotland...

"Manchester United’s squad currently includes 19 foreign players out of 26 – that’s 73.1% ‘immigrants’, according to Transfermarkt. But apparently those immigrants don’t count. They’re assets. Investments. Tradable commodities. Certainly not immigrants!"

"Jobs in hospitality, cleaning, and maintenance would be at risk, exacerbating challenges in already fragile rural economies."

#Scotland
#Tourism
#RuralEconomies

Oh.

We need #CitizenJournalism!

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Yaaaaa Beauty!

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#6Nations

So-called AI - not up in "the cloud", but very much down to earth and causing massive damage to #PublicHealth and environmental damage

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

En Italie, douze membres d’un groupuscule d’extrême droite condamnés après avoir tenté de recréer le parti fasciste de Mussolini

C’est la première fois que la loi dite «Scelba» - datant de 1952-, qui interdit la «réorganisation du parti fasciste dissous», est appliquée à un groupe néofasciste

"Proud recipient of a £50m taxpayer bailout for Ineos’s Grangemouth plant in October – courtesy of the very system he spits upon was Jim Ratcliffe. Nonetheless he finds the energy to criticise people on benefits."

#Ratcliffe
#Grangemouth
#immigration

Immigrant billionaire owner of Manchester United condemns immigrants – just the poor ones, though | Nazish Saad @nazishmunch.bsky.social

Nigel Farage said in 2022 that MPs defecting to another party and then refusing to call a by-election was

“no go, it’s not right, it is dishonorable”

So where are the by-elections for all those MPs who have now joined Reform?

'A more vibrant arts sector brought myriad benefits such as greater economic activity, improved mental wellbeing, critical thinking and innovation...'

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Tesco which makes £3bn a year profit and could afford to employ another 200,000 staff, they only employ for 16 hours a week, apparently cannot afford its wages bill.

But it can afford to quadruple its profits in the last 4 years.

"Have we reached a tipping point in neo-liberalism and the capitalist system as we know it? Is the mask slipping on billionaire greed and is the majority slowly recognising the current economic system is not serving their needs?"

Epstein's Genocidal Crypto Bros Are Willing to Kill Us All For Their Techno-Fascist Paradise

David Morris researched the nihilistic values system of the broligarchy, who shared Epstein's eugenics framework and desire for a world without rules or accountability.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

So, this is not Germany 1942, but it is very close to Germany 1938.

#Palantir

While Amazon touts the surveillance state enabled by its Ring cameras, remember...

Amazon's U.S. tax bill dropped by 87% in 2025, mostly thanks to Trump's tax cuts.

Meanwhile, its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion — and it announced 30,000 job cuts.

Is this the world we want to live in?

Oh…

Scotland's nature agency has suspended licences to control wild birds from a sporting estate and woodland amid allegations of #WildlifeCrime - which includes the disappearance of a #GoldenEagle feared shot and killed

news.sky.com/story/licenc...

#MastercheftheProfessionals is back! 😁

Businesses risk extinction themselves unless they protect and restore the natural world, scientists are warning

It comes amid major concerns over UK nature loss

#ClimateCrisis

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...