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Georgian opposition supporters rally on the day of local elections in Tbilisi, on October 4, 2025

#BREAKING Georgian police fire tear gas as protesters try to enter presidential palace

Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

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Timeline cleanse

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Side note: when the SNP were asked what their plan was for our yards when we gave up Royal Navy contracts, their response was that we’d be like Norway

Brilliant news for local shipbuilding jobs. 1/2

UK's £800m 'slave labour' China imports revealed - from bras to lawnmowers Thousands of tonnes of clothes, toys, furniture and tech are being flown in from Xinjiang - which Uyghur campaigners say is a 'national disgrace'

The UK is becoming a dumping ground for slave labour goods in between tougher protections in place in the US and EU markets. This story should accelerate action to beef up our anti-slavery laws. inews.co.uk/news/uk-800m...

Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany. Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. Continue reading...

Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany

Despots who don’t have to worry about term limits or public opinion can play for time and manipulate our open societies. They will only respect and be influenced by strength. Long past time for the US to stop playing Putin’s game.

Anyone know what this crest on a building in my patch signifies?

Who is Jimmy Lai? 'Prisoner of conscience' who has endured 1,600 days behind bars Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been in a high-security prison for more than 1,600 days.

Who is Jimmy Lai? 'Prisoner of conscience' who has endured 1,600 days behind bars

Nicola Sturgeon on the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and her political legacy | ITV News YouTube video by ITV News

Thinking of the buckets of abuse tipped over us a decade ago for saying the SNP's prospectus for leaving the UK was threadbare only for Nicola Sturgeon to now admit she thought it was too. Extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYeO...

Suilven?

One frame cartoon. Big heading reads: 'TEEN WOLF' A group of wolves in the mountains under a full moon. They're enthusiastically howling, big shadows cast by the moonlight. Another wolf, with a mop of greasy hair, has his back to the others, looking at his mobile. He is being addressed: "The Moon! The Moon! Look at the Moon!" and his reply is "meh"

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Starmer raises case of Scot detained in India during meeting with Modi Sir Keir Starmer is understood to have raised the case of Jagtar Singh Johal when he met Indian PM Narendra Modi on Thursday.

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Family backs bill to prosecute prisons for custody deaths Labour MP Blair McDougall is calling for Crown immunity in UK prison estates to be abolished.

Good to see @blairmcdougall.com introducing a 10 minute bill to remove crown immunity from SPS.

Our office has been calling on UK and Scottish govts to progress this since 2022. Statements here:
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Ukrainian air defences deploy against Russian drones during a night of mass drone and missile strikes on Kyiv on July 10, 2025, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine

BREAKING Russia launched some 400 drones, 18 missiles in overnight attack, says Zelensky

Have tabled questions to the government on this.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

I left X months ago. At some point, surely, a threshold is passed where it is no longer appropriate for Governments to continue to have a presence on that platform. If its AI going full-on Nazi is not that threshold, what is? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

My letter to Glasgow City Council's SNP leader with @martinmccluskey.bsky.social @blairmcdougall.com @alisonstaylormp.bsky.social & Johanna Baxter MP.

As representatives of Glasgow's neighbouring constituencies, we are appalled at the suggestion our constituents should pay a Clyde Tunnel Toll Tax.

Novara Media apologise for fuelling antisemitic abuse of Jewish Labour donor - The Jewish Chronicle The left wing media outlet published false claims that Gary Lubner was an ‘apartheid profiteer’

Best not to get your political views from memes www.thejc.com/news/uk/nova...

Our Patron @blairmcdougall.com called on the 🇬🇧 government to keep its promise to the people of #HongKong and maintain the 5+1 #BNO pathway.

Badri Japaridze Sentenced to Eight Months in Jail in Third Verdict for Defying GD Commission - Civil Georgia Badri Japaridze of Lelo for Georgia became the third opposition politician to receive a prison sente

I met Badri just a few days ago in London. Georgia Dream is now engaged in an all out war against democracy in Georgia. I'm pleased the UK Government summoned the ambassador over this but I'll be calling for more action against the regime in Parliament . civil.ge/archives/688...

Big news for my Rare Cancers Bill! - Yesterday, it took a major step forward as the UK Government confirmed the funding needed for it to progress.

This clears the way for the Bill to move to the committee stage—where it will be examined line by line—and, hopefully, to a 3rd Reading on 11 July! >>

Hospice cash crisis ‘could push patients to seek death’ A charity boss says funding for palliative care must equal that of assisted dying

Hospices UK: “You can’t but note a moral question mark over the assumption we all make — until we hear otherwise — that an assisted dying service will be fully state funded, whereas currently the palliative care provided by hospices is currently only 30 per cent state funded”

Yesterday, we launched our latest business and human rights report in 🇬🇧 Parliament, featuring our Patron @blairmcdougall.com, @carmenlau.bsky.social, Lara Strangways, and our Senior Research and Policy Advisor Thomas Benson.

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Deeply troubling