Duncan Gill
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SNP activist, when I get out of a comfy chair. Coffee, Packers, Dons, Guns N Roses… the important things in life
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"We want to ensure the continued democratic control of technological innovation so (checks notes) this giant blazing cash furnace of unaccountable arrogance has hired (checks notes) George Osborne to lay those (checks notes) AI rails."
December 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"We want to ensure the continued democratic control of technological innovation so (checks notes) this giant blazing cash furnace of unaccountable arrogance has hired (checks notes) George Osborne to lay those (checks notes) AI rails."
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Was Nick Clegg busy?
OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion ft.trib.al/kpZiA3a
OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion
Former UK chancellor to lead start-up’s effort to spread ‘democratic’ AI across the world
ft.trib.al
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Was Nick Clegg busy?
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stage wrestlers, carnival barkers, boardwalk nickels-toss game operators, and men of various flimflam industry all proved this year that they have significantly more backbone than any fortune 500 executive
December 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
stage wrestlers, carnival barkers, boardwalk nickels-toss game operators, and men of various flimflam industry all proved this year that they have significantly more backbone than any fortune 500 executive
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Russia has deployed 360,000 troops in Belarus, directly along NATO’s border, Bild reports.
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Russia has deployed 360,000 troops in Belarus, directly along NATO’s border, Bild reports.
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🚨BREAKING 🚨
Trump has put previously-agreed investment in the UK tech industry on hold.
Why? Likely to strong-arm the UK into dropping taxes on US big tech firms.
🧵Here’s what you need to know about the tax Trump wants scrapped & why we need to hold firm…
Trump has put previously-agreed investment in the UK tech industry on hold.
Why? Likely to strong-arm the UK into dropping taxes on US big tech firms.
🧵Here’s what you need to know about the tax Trump wants scrapped & why we need to hold firm…
December 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🚨BREAKING 🚨
Trump has put previously-agreed investment in the UK tech industry on hold.
Why? Likely to strong-arm the UK into dropping taxes on US big tech firms.
🧵Here’s what you need to know about the tax Trump wants scrapped & why we need to hold firm…
Trump has put previously-agreed investment in the UK tech industry on hold.
Why? Likely to strong-arm the UK into dropping taxes on US big tech firms.
🧵Here’s what you need to know about the tax Trump wants scrapped & why we need to hold firm…
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🚨 SCOOP: “I’m a Labour donor”
Ben Howlett is an ex-Tory MP, owner of influential PoliticsUK account, and the fixer we exposed selling access to Westminster
Turns out he's also involved in Labour fundraising, and discussing donations with Labour MPs
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/im-a-labou...
Ben Howlett is an ex-Tory MP, owner of influential PoliticsUK account, and the fixer we exposed selling access to Westminster
Turns out he's also involved in Labour fundraising, and discussing donations with Labour MPs
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/im-a-labou...
“I’m a Labour donor”: ex-Tory MP exposed in cash-for-access sting
Exclusive: Details of Ben Howlett’s fundraising for Labour prompts Green leader Zack Polanski to call on Starmer's party to “come clean” about its relationship with him.
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🚨 SCOOP: “I’m a Labour donor”
Ben Howlett is an ex-Tory MP, owner of influential PoliticsUK account, and the fixer we exposed selling access to Westminster
Turns out he's also involved in Labour fundraising, and discussing donations with Labour MPs
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/im-a-labou...
Ben Howlett is an ex-Tory MP, owner of influential PoliticsUK account, and the fixer we exposed selling access to Westminster
Turns out he's also involved in Labour fundraising, and discussing donations with Labour MPs
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/im-a-labou...
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Salisbury poisoning report concludes Putin approved terror operation
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Salisbury poisoning report concludes Putin approved terror operation
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Suzi summing up world history here.
It's just so senseless. A man can't control his temper, and everyone suffers.
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Suzi summing up world history here.
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New £30M Integrated Mortuary Opens at Foresterhill Site, Aberdeen
Read more: www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/december/new-30m-integrated-mortuary-opens-at-foresterhill-site-aberdeen
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Read more: www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/december/new-30m-integrated-mortuary-opens-at-foresterhill-site-aberdeen
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December 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
New £30M Integrated Mortuary Opens at Foresterhill Site, Aberdeen
Read more: www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/december/new-30m-integrated-mortuary-opens-at-foresterhill-site-aberdeen
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Read more: www.nhsgrampian.org/news/2025/december/new-30m-integrated-mortuary-opens-at-foresterhill-site-aberdeen
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And she really was the United Kingdoms Prime Minister so you may wish to consider who is laughing at who here.
“No less an authority than the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Liz Truss”
That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.
That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.
December 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
And she really was the United Kingdoms Prime Minister so you may wish to consider who is laughing at who here.
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🚨David McLennan is Reform UK's first elected councillor in Scotland. He won a by-election in Whitburn last week.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨David McLennan is Reform UK's first elected councillor in Scotland. He won a by-election in Whitburn last week.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
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but the good thing is that it's stopped elite political discourse from sinking into a far right sewer, right
right
right
Immigration into the UK is now far too low and still plunging. We'll all suffer for it because of the hatred and fear spread online. Seems that's how life works now.
December 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
but the good thing is that it's stopped elite political discourse from sinking into a far right sewer, right
right
right
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Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, has been caught using fake AI-generated citations in their textbooks
Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide
A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist
www.thetimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, has been caught using fake AI-generated citations in their textbooks
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"You don't know anything"
Since Stephen Kinnock is doing the media round this morning here's one from the archives.
Since Stephen Kinnock is doing the media round this morning here's one from the archives.
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"You don't know anything"
Since Stephen Kinnock is doing the media round this morning here's one from the archives.
Since Stephen Kinnock is doing the media round this morning here's one from the archives.
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Our first and clearest policy towards Trump should have been to disentangle ourselves from the U.S. as much as possible. Cut the dependency. Align ourselves with Europe.
December 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Our first and clearest policy towards Trump should have been to disentangle ourselves from the U.S. as much as possible. Cut the dependency. Align ourselves with Europe.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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Congratulations to the Deep State on their cover-up on this footage, because I can guarantee you that any elected Republican asked about this – especially in relation to outrage at anyone not showing decorum over Charlie Kirk – won’t have seen it.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Congratulations to the Deep State on their cover-up on this footage, because I can guarantee you that any elected Republican asked about this – especially in relation to outrage at anyone not showing decorum over Charlie Kirk – won’t have seen it.
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NEW: The most symbolic thing ever just happened in Guaíba, Brazil.
December 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
NEW: The most symbolic thing ever just happened in Guaíba, Brazil.
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The president is using this apparent family tragedy, which as far as we know had absolutely nothing to do with him, to convey the message that if his fans brutally murder his critics, they will receive his support and approval.
Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
December 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The president is using this apparent family tragedy, which as far as we know had absolutely nothing to do with him, to convey the message that if his fans brutally murder his critics, they will receive his support and approval.
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This line rankled in the Beeb's write-up of tributes to Rob and Michele Reiner.
It flows into Trump saying the deaths were "very sad", as if it were a tribute like the others.
And as for "a swipe" - 90% of Trump's post was mockery and boasting.
It flows into Trump saying the deaths were "very sad", as if it were a tribute like the others.
And as for "a swipe" - 90% of Trump's post was mockery and boasting.
December 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This line rankled in the Beeb's write-up of tributes to Rob and Michele Reiner.
It flows into Trump saying the deaths were "very sad", as if it were a tribute like the others.
And as for "a swipe" - 90% of Trump's post was mockery and boasting.
It flows into Trump saying the deaths were "very sad", as if it were a tribute like the others.
And as for "a swipe" - 90% of Trump's post was mockery and boasting.
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The Donbas isn’t Putin’s end game.
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The Donbas isn’t Putin’s end game.
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
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Today is the day that Donald Trump truly became president.
December 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Today is the day that Donald Trump truly became president.
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I haven't seen anyone mention it, so it might be an appropriate time to point out that - as is of course only right - the volume control on BBC's iPlayer goes to 11.
December 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I haven't seen anyone mention it, so it might be an appropriate time to point out that - as is of course only right - the volume control on BBC's iPlayer goes to 11.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...