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Pope Leo XIV:
I'd rather not comment on that. I haven't read the whole thing. I think, unfortunately, some parts of it that I have seen make a huge change in what was for many, many years a true alliance between Europe and the United States.
I'd rather not comment on that. I haven't read the whole thing. I think, unfortunately, some parts of it that I have seen make a huge change in what was for many, many years a true alliance between Europe and the United States.
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Pope Leo XIV:
I'd rather not comment on that. I haven't read the whole thing. I think, unfortunately, some parts of it that I have seen make a huge change in what was for many, many years a true alliance between Europe and the United States.
I'd rather not comment on that. I haven't read the whole thing. I think, unfortunately, some parts of it that I have seen make a huge change in what was for many, many years a true alliance between Europe and the United States.
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I was very happy when Scots and Scottish Gaelic were recently recoginsed as official languages of Scotland, I wrote a wee bit about it here: foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2025/12/scot...
Scottish Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages of Scotland
Scottish Gaelic and Scots are now recognised as official languages as from St Andrew's Day, thanks to the Scottish Languages Act, which w...
foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I was very happy when Scots and Scottish Gaelic were recently recoginsed as official languages of Scotland, I wrote a wee bit about it here: foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2025/12/scot...
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Watch how under-reported this good news story unfolds in the unionist press & media.
Great news for Prestwick & Scotland!✈️
Airbus has successfully completed its acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems sites, including Prestwick Aerosystems securing 3,000 Scottish jobs.
bmmagazine.co.uk/news/airbus-...
Great news for Prestwick & Scotland!✈️
Airbus has successfully completed its acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems sites, including Prestwick Aerosystems securing 3,000 Scottish jobs.
bmmagazine.co.uk/news/airbus-...
Airbus steps in to rescue 3,000 UK jobs as Boeing strikes deal on Spirit AeroSystems carve-out
Airbus is set to save nearly 3,000 UK aerospace jobs in Belfast and Prestwick after striking a major deal with Boeing over Spirit AeroSystems, securing wing-making facilities and stabilising the UK’s ...
bmmagazine.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Watch how under-reported this good news story unfolds in the unionist press & media.
Great news for Prestwick & Scotland!✈️
Airbus has successfully completed its acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems sites, including Prestwick Aerosystems securing 3,000 Scottish jobs.
bmmagazine.co.uk/news/airbus-...
Great news for Prestwick & Scotland!✈️
Airbus has successfully completed its acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems sites, including Prestwick Aerosystems securing 3,000 Scottish jobs.
bmmagazine.co.uk/news/airbus-...
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Hands up if you already knew that Marx’s daughter Eleanor was the first translator of Madame Bovary into English (under the name Eleanor Marx-Aveling).
Here’s a bonus illustration from the book.
Here’s a bonus illustration from the book.
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hands up if you already knew that Marx’s daughter Eleanor was the first translator of Madame Bovary into English (under the name Eleanor Marx-Aveling).
Here’s a bonus illustration from the book.
Here’s a bonus illustration from the book.
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Trump's chaotic policymaking worsens existing business complexity. But Europe including the UK don't help much either with constant changes that only the largest can navigate. This is an endemic economic problem that few want to discuss. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Trump's chaotic policymaking worsens existing business complexity. But Europe including the UK don't help much either with constant changes that only the largest can navigate. This is an endemic economic problem that few want to discuss. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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This week we have a #SaturdayCocktail - a sour cherry negroni. (Negroni purists look away, or deal with it)
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This week we have a #SaturdayCocktail - a sour cherry negroni. (Negroni purists look away, or deal with it)
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The man who made us see that a boring postcard was anything but.
Martin Parr, photographer acclaimed for observations of British life, dies aged 73. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Martin Parr, photographer acclaimed for observations of British life, dies aged 73
Known for acute observations of class system, Parr’s images were often in vivid colour with more than a dash of humour
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The man who made us see that a boring postcard was anything but.
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@davidbirkettsnp.bsky.social @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp-dmg.bsky.social
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
December 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
@davidbirkettsnp.bsky.social @thesnpmedia.bsky.social @snp-dmg.bsky.social
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
Please get all SNP politicians posting here
This letter from Seamus Logan to Wes Streeting I saw on Facebook is important
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Last night's quake in Alaska detected in #Edinburgh on both @raspishake.bsky.social and gravity meter. Signal strong enough to stick gravity meter on its end stop; the signal will not resume until I get into Edinburgh to reset it.
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Last night's quake in Alaska detected in #Edinburgh on both @raspishake.bsky.social and gravity meter. Signal strong enough to stick gravity meter on its end stop; the signal will not resume until I get into Edinburgh to reset it.
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Absolutely love to see the Prime Minister chucking stigmatising language like ‘nuts’ around.
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Absolutely love to see the Prime Minister chucking stigmatising language like ‘nuts’ around.
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🔉 Sounds of Kyiv today. no electricity again because of Russian attacks - but our local coffee shop works✨ with a generator . Because nothing can get between Ukrainians and their coffee ☕️💪
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🔉 Sounds of Kyiv today. no electricity again because of Russian attacks - but our local coffee shop works✨ with a generator . Because nothing can get between Ukrainians and their coffee ☕️💪
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Calling all followers working in British universities and science. Am well aware of all the difficulties with funding etc.
BUT.
Tell me what is great at your Institution? Recent breakthroughs, fantastic Labs, wonderful libraries, etc?!
BUT.
Tell me what is great at your Institution? Recent breakthroughs, fantastic Labs, wonderful libraries, etc?!
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Calling all followers working in British universities and science. Am well aware of all the difficulties with funding etc.
BUT.
Tell me what is great at your Institution? Recent breakthroughs, fantastic Labs, wonderful libraries, etc?!
BUT.
Tell me what is great at your Institution? Recent breakthroughs, fantastic Labs, wonderful libraries, etc?!
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Breathtaking, but now expected.
1/US stepping up attacks on the EU. This has left many in Europe scratching their heads but it is part of the neo-royalist agenda. The EU stands for the rules based order and stands in the way of a new order based not on rules but clique interests.
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
Top US official says EU regulation ‘undermines’ NATO ties
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said Europe’s policy agenda was hurting its credibility in Washington.
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Breathtaking, but now expected.
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how it feels to try something on in a store you have no right to try on
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
how it feels to try something on in a store you have no right to try on
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When the Hills Wear Stripes | Walkhighlands: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/when-th... @walkhighlands.co.uk
When the Hills Wear Stripes
Have you noticed stripey patterns on high hillsides? I’ve noticed a lot recently. That’s undoubtedly because I’m spending so much time in the Cairngorms these days, where such patterns are common, but...
www.walkhighlands.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
When the Hills Wear Stripes | Walkhighlands: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/when-th... @walkhighlands.co.uk
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Russian army destroyed the railway station in Fastiv near Kyiv tonight. Just bombed it into obliteration. Fire that broke out ate up the construction. It’s gone. This is more than just about a railway. This is exactly what Russia is trying to do to my people : to make us gone. Either by
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Russian army destroyed the railway station in Fastiv near Kyiv tonight. Just bombed it into obliteration. Fire that broke out ate up the construction. It’s gone. This is more than just about a railway. This is exactly what Russia is trying to do to my people : to make us gone. Either by
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Removing the two-child limit accounts for less than 1 per cent of social security bill. To remove 450,000 children out of poverty, that's pretty good return on investment.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Removing the two-child limit accounts for less than 1 per cent of social security bill. To remove 450,000 children out of poverty, that's pretty good return on investment.
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Inverness looking magnificent. @thinkuhi.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Inverness looking magnificent. @thinkuhi.bsky.social
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Swamp.
There he is folks. Proud recipient of the new FIFA Peace Prize. He couldn’t put that gold medal around his neck fast enough.
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Swamp.
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St MARK'S PATH LATEST:—We hear it will reopen from Friday 19 December until Sunday 4 January 2026 (inclusive).
#Edinburgh #hyperllocal #news @edi.bike @andyheald.bsky.social
#Edinburgh #hyperllocal #news @edi.bike @andyheald.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
St MARK'S PATH LATEST:—We hear it will reopen from Friday 19 December until Sunday 4 January 2026 (inclusive).
#Edinburgh #hyperllocal #news @edi.bike @andyheald.bsky.social
#Edinburgh #hyperllocal #news @edi.bike @andyheald.bsky.social
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“I’ll never forget the look of hatred he had for me, simply for existing.... Nigel Farage has suggested it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?” Yinka Bankole
I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“I’ll never forget the look of hatred he had for me, simply for existing.... Nigel Farage has suggested it’s inconceivable that anyone could recall such events of more than four decades ago. I would simply ask: can a victim of such abuse ever forget?” Yinka Bankole
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This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city.
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
I'm a bilingual refugee in Glasgow. Here's what I would say to Nigel Farage
A GLASGOW refugee has urged Nigel Farage to stop playing “dirty games” by picking on children who speak different languages.
www.thenational.scot
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city.
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
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Once again, a Scottish newspaper takes a stand, refusing to follow the mainstream media mob in perpetuating the great fiction that is the Gaza “ceasefire”.
The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.
The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Once again, a Scottish newspaper takes a stand, refusing to follow the mainstream media mob in perpetuating the great fiction that is the Gaza “ceasefire”.
The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.
The @scotnational.bsky.social puts their peers to shame.