Paul Cochrane
@mrdissent.bsky.social
Ultracrepidarian, Pedagoguerist, Librocubicularist.
Humanity First.
Humanity First.
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Congrats to Suping Li on winning the Roy Prize for best PhD in Scotlit in 2025. A pleasure to supervise her work on the reception of Robert Burns in China, the third of my former PhDs to win this award @glasgowburns.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk ucsl-scotland.com/2025/11/24/r...
Ross Roy Prize – 2025 Winner Announced
The Ross Roy Prize is awarded annually to the best PhD thesis submitted on a subject relating to Scottish literature. Judged by a panel of expert scholars, the Prize commemorates the outstanding co…
ucsl-scotland.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Congrats to Suping Li on winning the Roy Prize for best PhD in Scotlit in 2025. A pleasure to supervise her work on the reception of Robert Burns in China, the third of my former PhDs to win this award @glasgowburns.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk ucsl-scotland.com/2025/11/24/r...
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The Guardian gets a lot of stick - often deservedly so - but this is excellent, important reporting and you’d not see it in any other mainstream, nationwide newspaper.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The Guardian gets a lot of stick - often deservedly so - but this is excellent, important reporting and you’d not see it in any other mainstream, nationwide newspaper.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear
Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Democrats
"Follow the law."
Republicans
"Execute them!"
"Follow the law."
Republicans
"Execute them!"
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Democrats
"Follow the law."
Republicans
"Execute them!"
"Follow the law."
Republicans
"Execute them!"
The patriots are terrorising schools now. First Dalmarnock Primary, now Aberdeen
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The patriots are terrorising schools now. First Dalmarnock Primary, now Aberdeen
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
See also Education...
I'll admit that I occasionally watch Forged in Fire (a reality show where people make edged weapons under time pressure—don't judge 😄). One of the things I find particularly interesting is how the contestants continually make the same mistakes that brought down contestants in previous shows.
1/9
1/9
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
See also Education...
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If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wee Everton player get straight red of slapping his teammate.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Wee Everton player get straight red of slapping his teammate.
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
Musk on his fight to cure cancer...or something.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Musk on his fight to cure cancer...or something.
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"The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee," Whitehouse said.
Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee," Whitehouse said.
Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.
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Precisely. This interpretation of ‘balance’ would involve the broadcast of a program in which Harris blatantly & repeatedly lied about winning a Presidential election she had lost & then encouraged her supporters to ‘fight like hell’ against the upholders of the actual result.
Prescott keeps repeating "I thought they'd show a programme about Harris the week after". He really doesn't understand the difference between balance, impartiality and objectivity.
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Precisely. This interpretation of ‘balance’ would involve the broadcast of a program in which Harris blatantly & repeatedly lied about winning a Presidential election she had lost & then encouraged her supporters to ‘fight like hell’ against the upholders of the actual result.
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BREAKING: A federal judge has thrown out the criminal indictment of James Comey, ruling that Trump-installed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed and had no lawful authority to bring the case. The court found her actions violated federal law and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge has thrown out the criminal indictment of James Comey, ruling that Trump-installed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed and had no lawful authority to bring the case. The court found her actions violated federal law and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.
Ooooh! Not "SERIOUS PROPORTION!"
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ooooh! Not "SERIOUS PROPORTION!"
Ach well @tottenhamhotspur.com , only another 16.5 years till your next trophy.
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ach well @tottenhamhotspur.com , only another 16.5 years till your next trophy.
Epstein Files game playing between Republicans and Democrats.
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Release the lot.
"Kill them all, the Lord knows his own."
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Release the lot.
"Kill them all, the Lord knows his own."
November 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Epstein Files game playing between Republicans and Democrats.
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Release the lot.
"Kill them all, the Lord knows his own."
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Release the lot.
"Kill them all, the Lord knows his own."
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Order of Lenin anyone?
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Order of Lenin anyone?
Sneaky move by Arne Slot to try and make himself available for the Celtic job.
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Sneaky move by Arne Slot to try and make himself available for the Celtic job.
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I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I am a citizen and so are majority of Somalis in America. Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn’t have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate. We are here to stay 💁🏽♀️
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U.S. officials and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about a meeting last month in which representatives of the Trump administration met with Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian envoy who is under U.S. sanctions, to draft a plan to end the war in Ukraine.
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
U.S. officials and lawmakers are increasingly concerned about a meeting last month in which representatives of the Trump administration met with Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian envoy who is under U.S. sanctions, to draft a plan to end the war in Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM