British universities paid security firm to ‘spy' on pro-Palestine students Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.

Bessent calls the Strait of Hormuz the "Strait of Vermouth"

Viktor Orban's defeat - and what comes next for the far right Spotify video

"Describing Peter Magyar as a liberal is a problem - he never aligned himself with liberal ideas."

#ViktorOrbán and the aftermath of his election defeat with @gsamaras.bsky.social

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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There is no better example of how the fight against Trump & MAGA is a battle between good & evil than the septuagenarian drug addict and life long sexual predator picking a fight with the Pope during a Sunday night Adderall binge. God help us all.

Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

#Glasgow stop the war march.

I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion.

This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention.

@CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve

Link 🔽

The Clangers emerging from the dustbin-lidded underground tunnel dwellings to witness the arrival of the Iron Chicken

Call me ill-informed, I was an English major, but -- what is the light source here?

My local MP was elected for #uklabour but his leaflet somehow doesn’t mention this. Is he confused? I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months muting expensive looking ads on YouTube featuring his leader Anas Sarwar. Now I’m confused.

Those four astronauts are now the furthest from Donald Trump than anyone has ever been. I envy them.

Meanwhile.

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic.

Boy, did they screw up.

Is Donald Trump dead yet? It’s a Friday for fuck’s sake, give us some good news!.

Your Sweet Love by Barry Burns on Apple Music Song · 2026 · Duration 4:03

Props again to @barry.mogwai.scot for the soundtrack. Particularly enjoying the Rachael Sermanni take on Lee Hazelwood’s Your Sweet Love.

music.apple.com/gb/album/you...

Everybody to Kenmure Street - official trailer YouTube video by Conic

Finally saw Everybody to Kenmure Street last night. A fine film and huge emotional blast. Was my neighbourhood at the time. Never seen so many police vans. The streets nearby were filled with cops ready with kitbags of riot gear. Could easily have been a blood bath.

youtube.com/watch?v=JOY5...

Are they disarming the Palestinian survivors who are living in tents surrounded by rubble or are they disarming Israel who has the bombs?

And also the Clash at Glasgow Apollo.

I’m concerned that this Trump fellow is not good at the politics.

"We will be engaging with landlords, employees, and other stakeholders as we explore all options."

I remember when NCP owned their sites… Wonder who they were flogged-off to and when?

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses.

Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

The Week of March 9 in Birthdays. And Also International Women's Day Clara Rockmore, Laura Lee, Tina Charles, Nina Hagen, Cheryl Lynn, Mary Gauthier, Ruby Andrews, Pizzicato Five, Margie Hendrix, Erma Franklin

Singer Margie Hendrix was born this day in 1935.

To quote (probably misquote) Douglas Hart on being asked why his bass only had two strings “two’s enough”.

Everybody to Kenmure Street by Barry Burns on Apple Music Album · 2026 · 16 Songs

Did not know you’d done this! Listening now. Also on Apple Music music.apple.com/gb/album/eve...

Fourteen hour drive v an hour flight… Wizzair not fancy enough or famously tightwad?

Instinctively, I imagined Warren Zevon singing this…

Munich & Tehran: A Tale of Two Cities Viewing the capital of Iran from the capital of Bavaria (which was, 100 years ago, also the "Capital of the Movement")

The images of Tehran are very fire-and-brimstone, very End Times.

The Ayatollahs have spent the last 47 years denouncing the United States as the Great Satan. And what did we do? We turned their capital city into Hell.

Give a Little Whistle Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now. Visit thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners to sign up for our premium...

Two lawyers who work for ICE step forward and lift the curtain on what is really happening inside our immigration system right now. link.podtrac.com/iehabou3

'Eve Of Destruction' I guess now we know for a certain that the United States was responsible for the bombing in Iran that killed as many as 170 people, mostly school girls, during the initial hours of our military campai...

“Team Trump flew up from Palm Beach after a morning in which they beclowned themselves once again at the initial ‘Shield of the Americas’ meeting with Latin leaders, where POTUS threatened Cuba as being next in his march across the globe. War has become a game to them.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcas

How The US-Iran War Ends? Enter The Dragon A Peoples Republic of China intervention could quickly end the US-Isareli War without firing a shot.

Who can stop the US-Iran war?
China.

My article about how they could displace America as the trusted ally of peace in the world in a matter of weeks. Not joking.

open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...

Sign the Petition Save Trongate103 from closure

There’s a petition to save the cultural centre at Glasgow’s Trongate 103 before the council’s property company force out the current tenants.
c.org/kr4YdjWJR4