Severin Carrell
@severincarrell.bsky.social
Scotland editor for the Guardian. A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss)
I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
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Exclusive: The Navy will build a new “Trump-class” battleship, Trump is set to announce. on.wsj.com/459nA4M
Exclusive | New Class of Warship to Be Named After President Trump
The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
on.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Exclusive: The Navy will build a new “Trump-class” battleship, Trump is set to announce. on.wsj.com/459nA4M
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CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
“We are applying a capitalist model, unashamedly and proudly,” says “Moneyball” carbon capitalist Rich Stockdale, boss of UK’s fast growing natural capital land owner #OxygenConservation 👇🏾🌳🦅
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Unashamedly capitalist’ rewilders claim ‘Moneyball’ approach could make millions – but experts sceptical
Rich Stockdale says model of ‘regenerative capitalism’ would maximise profits by planting trees, restoring peatlands, and installing windfarms across its estates
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“We are applying a capitalist model, unashamedly and proudly,” says “Moneyball” carbon capitalist Rich Stockdale, boss of UK’s fast growing natural capital land owner #OxygenConservation 👇🏾🌳🦅
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Exclusive: Scottish government weighs up smoking ban exemption for crack cocaine users at safe consumption rooms 👇🏴 #drugspolicy #ThistleCentre #smokingban
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Scotland officials weigh up smoking ban exception for supervised crack use
Move follows increase in drug users switching from injecting heroin to smoking crack in Glasgow and Edinburgh
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Exclusive: Scottish government weighs up smoking ban exemption for crack cocaine users at safe consumption rooms 👇🏴 #drugspolicy #ThistleCentre #smokingban
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Exclusive: Scottish government weighs up smoking ban exemption for crack cocaine users at safe consumption rooms 👇🏴 #drugspolicy #ThistleCentre #smokingban
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Scotland officials weigh up smoking ban exception for supervised crack use
Move follows increase in drug users switching from injecting heroin to smoking crack in Glasgow and Edinburgh
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Exclusive: Scottish government weighs up smoking ban exemption for crack cocaine users at safe consumption rooms 👇🏴 #drugspolicy #ThistleCentre #smokingban
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘Craig Callender, a philosophy professor at the University of California San Diego … agrees with that assessment, observing that “the appearance of legitimacy to non-existent journals is like the logical end product of existing trends.”’
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
‘Craig Callender, a philosophy professor at the University of California San Diego … agrees with that assessment, observing that “the appearance of legitimacy to non-existent journals is like the logical end product of existing trends.”’
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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In 2023, the Education Department launched investigations into a Texas school district after several alleged incidents of racial bullying, and an investigator was planning to visit.
Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.
Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.
Epithets and accusations: Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump
Parents say incidents are going unchecked after the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights retreated from investigating schools in Lubbock, Texas.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
In 2023, the Education Department launched investigations into a Texas school district after several alleged incidents of racial bullying, and an investigator was planning to visit.
Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.
Then the 2024 presidential election happened — and the visit didn’t.
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"The Epstein files have been released."
December 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"The Epstein files have been released."
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has no choice but to teach Trump a lesson about free speech
The corporation may have lost a director general, but now needs to prove it still has a spine
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about. The BBC may be about to lose a director general, but it still has a spine. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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In Florida the forward march of child labour was halted this year
But will capitalism let things rest there? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...
But will capitalism let things rest there? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In Florida the forward march of child labour was halted this year
But will capitalism let things rest there? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...
But will capitalism let things rest there? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...
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Invasive quagga mussels are killing off lake ecosystems in the US and Europe, and are now in Northern Ireland.
Yet every time invasives are mentioned, someone says "But it's all just nature."
They're *wrong*: invasive species are one of the worst HUMAN impacts.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet every time invasives are mentioned, someone says "But it's all just nature."
They're *wrong*: invasive species are one of the worst HUMAN impacts.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Invasive quagga mussels are killing off lake ecosystems in the US and Europe, and are now in Northern Ireland.
Yet every time invasives are mentioned, someone says "But it's all just nature."
They're *wrong*: invasive species are one of the worst HUMAN impacts.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet every time invasives are mentioned, someone says "But it's all just nature."
They're *wrong*: invasive species are one of the worst HUMAN impacts.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"If this shift represents an excursion into a new normal, our future could be hotter faster than expected."
A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing:
www.science.org/stoken/autho...
A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing:
www.science.org/stoken/autho...
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"If this shift represents an excursion into a new normal, our future could be hotter faster than expected."
A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing:
www.science.org/stoken/autho...
A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing:
www.science.org/stoken/autho...
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‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case #climatecrisis scenarios revealed by scientists
- Scientists say government must be prepared for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Scientists say government must be prepared for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists
Scientists say government must prepare for ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case #climatecrisis scenarios revealed by scientists
- Scientists say government must be prepared for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Scientists say government must be prepared for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Big shout out to Reach and the Daily Record for illustrating a story about Scottish postal delays over Christmas with a photograph of Portman Square in London @dailyrecord.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Big shout out to Reach and the Daily Record for illustrating a story about Scottish postal delays over Christmas with a photograph of Portman Square in London @dailyrecord.co.uk
Here's a GB News headline for the ages:
"Reeves and Starmer 'misunderstand basic economics' says Rees-Mogg"
"Reeves and Starmer 'misunderstand basic economics' says Rees-Mogg"
December 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Here's a GB News headline for the ages:
"Reeves and Starmer 'misunderstand basic economics' says Rees-Mogg"
"Reeves and Starmer 'misunderstand basic economics' says Rees-Mogg"
Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s company #Ineos has won £120m of government funding to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at #Grangemouth, in a deal expected to protect more than 500 jobs (and the necks of Labour MSPs?)
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Government invests £120m to save UK’s last ethylene plant
Funding for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos plant in Scotland will help safeguard 500 jobs
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s company #Ineos has won £120m of government funding to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at #Grangemouth, in a deal expected to protect more than 500 jobs (and the necks of Labour MSPs?)
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump mocking a recently murdered film director, both presidents shattered Washington norms.
December 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump mocking a recently murdered film director, both presidents shattered Washington norms.
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A waste of time if there is an Elon Musk-shaped hole in the review.
www.ft.com/content/a309...
www.ft.com/content/a309...
UK orders review of foreign interference in British politics
Inquiry to examine political funding rules, including use of cryptocurrencies, after former Welsh Reform leader was jailed for bribery
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A waste of time if there is an Elon Musk-shaped hole in the review.
www.ft.com/content/a309...
www.ft.com/content/a309...
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For more than two years, Jared Kushner has sought to build a Trump-branded complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.
But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.
Jared Kushner’s Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia Is Running Into Resistance
For more than two years, the U.S. president’s son-in-law has sought to build a complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For more than two years, Jared Kushner has sought to build a Trump-branded complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.
But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.
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‘It’s a timebomb’: Ghana grapples with mass exodus of nurses as thousands head to the west
‘It’s a timebomb’: Ghana grapples with mass exodus of nurses as thousands head to the west
An estimated 6,000 nurses left in 2024 for roles in countries including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Three nurses explain what made them decide to leave or stay
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
‘It’s a timebomb’: Ghana grapples with mass exodus of nurses as thousands head to the west
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FULL TIME AT THE STADIUM OF LIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
December 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
FULL TIME AT THE STADIUM OF LIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
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GOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!! THE STADIUM OF LIGHT ERUPTS!!!!!
December 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
GOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!! THE STADIUM OF LIGHT ERUPTS!!!!!
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A man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been unmasked.
The hero has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
The hero has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
December 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been unmasked.
The hero has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
The hero has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland.
www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
I do hope lots of fans of Apple TVs Down Cemetery Road don’t head north to Highland Scotland expecting a bucolic fishing village with a bus to “Longforden” railway station.
It won’t be there.
That village is in Cornwall. And I suspect all the coastal footage is too.
@appletvnewshub.bsky.social
It won’t be there.
That village is in Cornwall. And I suspect all the coastal footage is too.
@appletvnewshub.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I do hope lots of fans of Apple TVs Down Cemetery Road don’t head north to Highland Scotland expecting a bucolic fishing village with a bus to “Longforden” railway station.
It won’t be there.
That village is in Cornwall. And I suspect all the coastal footage is too.
@appletvnewshub.bsky.social
It won’t be there.
That village is in Cornwall. And I suspect all the coastal footage is too.
@appletvnewshub.bsky.social