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#Holyrood26 typically brill analysis by Prof Walter Humes of the dead hand cabalistic politics stifling our Scottish schools sceptical.scot/2025/09/scott…
#AI and its impact for good or ill on creativity and humanity explored in a great 3-part series by @dougalperman about Scotland but also elsewhere sceptical.scot/2025/10/ai-cr…
#Gaza why @BBCr4today is the main item at 0810 today (Saturday) not the prospect of peace in the Middle East but another (after many) aspect of the appalling synagogue attack? Poor news judgment
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Unbelievable gesture Rory
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Rory McIlroy did not donate a $10.9M "Ryder Cup 2025 bonus." Golf News Net reports the viral claim is false. Also, European players do not receive Ryder Cup bonuses.
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Anyone surprised? “Former Welsh leader of Reform has pleaded guilty to bribery charges”. Such a patriot he took money to talk pro-Russian propaganda bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6x…
Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration (from @TheEconomist) economist.com/international/…: lessons for UK?
Presumably the same right-wing pro-Israeli protagonists denouncing Starmer over Palestinian recognition will applaud the illegal annexation of the West Bank when it happens
Some other polling figures for a “grieving” @matthewsyed who evidently rates the death of 1250 Israelis as infinitely more significant politically/morally than that of 60-odd thousand Gazans yougov.co.uk/politics/articl…
Why MSPs are falling out of love with Holyrood: excellent analysis!
thetimes.com/article/bce38a7…
Via @DSanderson_85 - don’t often get this level of detail and depth in Scottish political journalism
@IDF just loves killing journos - and press freedom theguardian.com/world/2025/s…
Scotland has six out of the top 25 on this scale, underlining how excellent its HE sector is thetimes.com/uk-university-r…
#inflation moral of today’s fig: rejoin EU/join the euro (French inflation 1%, eurozone 2%)
Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Consumer Product Safety Regulators nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/po… via @NYTimes
More like the Supine Court
#PlayOffs ridiculous outcome in @TheVanaramaNL where side finishing fifth on 73 pts is promoted while one finishing second with 96 (+23) faces another season outside efl: no purpose in being runner-up with GD 37 higher
#SpringStatement what a self-regarding hectoring interviewer @bbcnickrobinson is trying to bully @RachelReevesMP rather than ask questions designed to elicit info (what we normal journos do)