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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 15h

The ban on camp fires in the Cairngorms National Park does not appear to be evidence based | Professor Douglas MacMillan for Parkswatch Scotland:
#ScottishEnvironment 🌱
#Cairngorms 🏔️
#Muirburn 🔥

Why the ban on camp fires in the Cairngorms National Park maybe political rather than sustainable..... - parkswatchscotland

NIMBYism’ and ‘Park politics’ rather than fire risk is probably behind the move to ban camp fires (see here). My bet is that the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNP) has caved in to pressure from...

parkswatchscotland.co.uk

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 16h

This is a really important essay.

Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17h

Our latest edition is out, with @omerbartov.bsky.social's magisterial essay on the history of genocide denial and how Israeli denialism over atrocities in Gaza has roots in the country's own history
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

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The SNP Media @thesnpmedia.bsky.social · 20d

Brexit is leaving a generation of young Scots behind, a senior German politician has said. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇪🇺 👇
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/wes...

'We would welcome Scotland back into the EU with or without UK'

Brexit is 'leaving behind an entire generation' of young people, according to a senior German politician who said Scotland would be welcomed back…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 17h

Kemi Badenoch is a poor speaker & leader & a warm-up act for Robert Jenrick. But the problem is deeper: the intellectual bankruptcy of British Conservatism & their refusal to address their systemic failures in office. Hence they are stuck chasing the glib & nasty soundbites of Farage. #CPC25

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 1d

Owing to the wars of the previous 150 years, European countries bound together in a *union* so they would never fight again.

We do this, among other ways, by have common tariffs and standards at the border, but none within; by having a common visa waiver, but FOM within; and a single currency

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Greg Moodie @gregmoodie.bsky.social · Apr 21

Billy Wolfe was the leader of the SNP in 1978 when Eilean Mor MacCormick was bequeathed to the party. It was he who recognised the historical importance of the island and envisaged the visitor centre.

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 21h

'Common Tongue' explores one woman's relationship with the Scots language | Donald Stewart in 'The National':
#ScottishTheatre 🎭

‘Lend her yer lugs’: Scots play Common Tongue gives voice to the mither tongue

SCOTS, the mither tongue has aye been a challenge. For me, at home, it was banned as slovenly speech and unbecoming of a future scholar

www.thenational.scot

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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 2d

Cortinarius is the most species-rich mycorrhizal fungus genus in the world. 🤎

These are Dark brown beltfoot (Cortinarius brunneus)
Avoid all Cortinarius species due to the high risk of poisoning.

#MushroomMonday
#FungiFriends #forest
#nature #Fungi
#photography

Five Cortinarius bruneus #webcap"mushrooms.The mushrooms have a brown, convex cap with a smooth surface. The edges of the caps have a faint, pale rim.

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d

Will this apply in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, or will this draconian curtailment of the right to protest apply only in England? 🧐

Will it apply to 'protests' which seek to harass or intimidate asylum seekers and/or immigrants, or only to protests about the genocide in Gaza? 🧐

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

If only those pesky
Suffragettes had confined themselves to one protest…

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d

Blocking for idiocy.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 2d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick complains that there are immigration judges (presumably he means the part-time ones) who spend the rest of their time representing immigrants.

Wait until someone tells him about Recorders (part-time Crown Court judges) who spend the rest of their time defending the accused.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Mysterious

Russian newspaper head mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from a window

The veteran publisher died on Saturday. Police are investigating the 'strange death'.

metro.co.uk

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The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 1d

Hungary had requested to lift the EU parliamentary immunity of a political rival and an antifascist MEP, but failed.

European Parliament rejects Hungary’s request to waive immunity of two MEPs

European Parliament rejects Hungary's request to waive immunity of two MEPs

www.brusselstimes.com

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil.
The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD

On display at Römermuseum Xanten.

📷 me

🏺#archaeology

A detailed bronze sculpture of a face with wide eyes and flowing, wavy hair radiating outward resembling snakes, displayed in a glass case under museum lighting.

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Ruth Wishart @ruthwishart.bsky.social · 1d

In the non surprise of the year, assorted Reform run councils have found any obvious savings have already been made and, to quote Kent County Council they're already down "to the bare bones". #realitycheck

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callymeg.bsky.social @callymeg.bsky.social · 1d

As someone has pointed out - does this mean he wants to send black and brown people to live in some of the very white rural villages?

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Graeme Purves @gaspurves.bsky.social · 1d

I reckon he means to challenge Farage from the right. 🤨

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 1d

I'm amused by the fact he's arguing for the abolition of private schools.
“We want all people to be living side by side.... We can’t have particular communities in this country where there is a heavy preponderance of one group or another. We want people to be living in mixed communities.”

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the government refuse to regulate the media is that they do not want to.

This is what they want.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

"Complaint considered resolved with no further sanction due to apology and discussion broadcast on GB News."

Ofcom doesn't even merit the phrase "paper tiger". It's a paper kitten.
pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

pressgazette.co.uk

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