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The Wrong Way to Tackle a Housing Emergency | My article in 'Bella Caledonia':
#HousingEmergency #PublicPolicy #LateNeoliberalism #ScottishGovernment
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/0…
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Any criticism of senior officials will result in a surprise visit from the Scottish Standards Commission. 🤨
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Whoever becomes prime minister, Israel will still face more wars. Perhaps that's the one thing all the candidates can agree on.
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No party will win a majority in Israel's elections.
It's designed this way.
Netanyahu will still be the Prime Minister tomorrow.
Democracy - Israeli style.
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NEW: MAGA voters say they're going to the polls to fight “communism”—but when asked what communism actually means, things get awkward FAST.
In The Daily Show's upcoming special “Red Flags,” Jordan Klepper puts Republican voters on the spot with one simple question. Their answers are something else.
These two minutes are worth watching. See for yourself!
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Departing @uniofedinburgh principal Sir Peter Mathieson says he’s still committed to the role – but won’t say what his second job pays. 🤨
#HigherEducation #ScottishUniversities #LateNeoliberalism
theferret.scot/peter-mathies…
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The Sally Rooney affair shows how laws meant to target terrorism now suppress the freedom to dissent newstatesman.com/comment/202…
Departing @uniofedinburgh principal Sir Peter Mathieson says he’s still committed to the role – but won’t say what his second job pays. 🤨
#HigherEducation #ScottishUniversities #LateNeoliberalism
theferret.scot/peter-mathies…
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President Lula states that he will "go all out" against Meta, saying that Brazil will not accept a foreign company negatively influencing Brazilians and humanity with a "digital empire."
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"Q. How democratic is the Israeli vote – and who is being disenfranchised?
A: About 15 million people live in areas under Israeli control. Just over 7 million Jewish Israelis and 1.7 million Palestinian citizens of Israel live within the country’s pre-1967 borders, known as the “green line”, and have full voting rights.
In the occupied West Bank, more than 500,000 Israeli settlers can vote. They live among 3.1 million Palestinians who are subject to military rule and do not have the right to vote.
In occupied East Jerusalem more than 230,000 Israelis with voting rights live among 350,000 Palestinians who cannot vote.
Two million Palestinians in Gaza, who live under Israeli military occupation, according to the international court of justice, also have no vote."
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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In my Zeteo column I dismantle the BBC fabrications about Eisenkot and his opposition bloc.
The BBC is now framing tomorrow's Israeli election as a battle between the extreme right Netanyahu vs Eisenkot the ‘centrist or leftist’ @OborneTweets cuts through the nonsense.
zeteo.uk/p/the-most-racist-e…
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Meanwhile, what is @MairiMcAllan doing to move forward the restoration of Glasgow School of Art? She said she was going to convene a meeting about the Mac two months ago.
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Nearly everything Scotland needs done has been filed under 'Too Difficult' by @JohnSwinney and his lacklustre ministers and @scotgov officials.🙄
Empty performance and cosplay, on the other hand...
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Jon Kay to Reynolds: "You're planning to remove import taxes from products like chocolate, gherkins, marmalade. Your own figures say that will save the average household 40p a week. At a time when [bills] are going up, do you really think people are going to notice 40p a week?"
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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6d9…
Are these the things we're supposed to be stockpiling ahead of unspecified impending doom? Of course not - supermarkets can't make obscene profits with that sort of joined up thinking going on. Thank fuck the price of oat milk is coming down 🙄
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Completely unsurprising and a warning for how they will react when they are beaten
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President Trump: “We didn’t start the war with Iran. Iran started the war with us.”
The claim is incorrect. Israel launched a war against Iran in June 2025, with the U.S. joining the attacks. The U.S. and Israel launched another war in February 2026, and Washington resumed strikes in July.