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‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale on safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall Exclusive: Former Scottish Labour leader says she feels more scared as a lesbian today and calls for a kinder debate on transgender issues

‘Things could go backwards’: Kezia Dugdale talks to Helen Pidd about safety, LGBTQ+ rights and the future of Stonewall, announcing her new role as chair

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Public life is not a stage on which individuals should be handled gently so they are not driven away. It is a domain of power, justification, answerability, and trust... Palantir seeks only the first of these. bsky.app/profile/elio...

Social media has made things worse for so many women and girls, with so much of this harassment online, making those platforms increasingly hostile places.

This bill must be part of a bigger institutional and cultural change that we need to see across society.

If you are planning to vote for Scottish Greens don’t be duped by Independent Green Voice nothing environmental or organic about them. Set up by neo-fascist BNP/UKIP. A scandal that they are allowed to use the words green, organic and have a leaf in logo.

BBCs coverage this week hasn't been about "revealing sham immigration advisers". Yes, they exist and should be combatted, but these deliberately create the misleading idea of people seeking asylum committing widespread fraud. It's been about paving the way for this. 1/
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SCCJR Podcast: Just Ask . . . - SCCJR The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) is excited to launch our brand new podcast series – ‘Just […]

New from @thesccjr.bsky.social, this podcast series is aimed at PhD students, and invites any questions that you might have about doctoral research and all that it involves.

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Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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Poster for the University of Glasgow, School of Health & Wellbeing, Byres Community Hub. It advertises Puzzled Faces, a new monthly group for people with hearing loss, starting 17 April from 1 to 3pm at the Big Table in the Clarice Pears Building, led by Jill Bradshaw. The poster says the group offers chat, activities, and a relaxed, welcoming space, and that Jill is a lipreader, uses BSL, and has speech, so everyone is welcome. It also explains that the name Puzzled Faces reflects moments when communication feels difficult or unclear. Tea, coffee, and biscuits are provided, and the group will continue on the third Friday of each month. The design has a burgundy background, University of Glasgow branding, and puzzle head illustrations.

All welcome at Puzzled Faces, a new monthly group for people with hearing loss.

Starting on 17 April at The Clarice Pears Building.

Come along for chat, activities and a chance to meet others in a welcoming space.

This Syrian city was the setting for a real-world, real-time experiment in democracy More than a decade ago, during the Syrian Civil War, the northern Syrian city of Manbij was the setting for a real-world, real-time experiment in democracy. And that experiment is captured in the new ...

More than a decade ago, during the Syrian Civil War, the northern Syrian city of Manbij was the setting for a real-world, real-time experiment in democracy. And that experiment is captured in the new book "Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution."

War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again War does not only reshape borders. It also reshapes what can be seen, said, and remembered. When governments invoke “misinformation” during wartime, they often mean something simpler: speech they do n...

I published this yesterday. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... Today I learned that my friend Ahmed Shihab Eldin is among those detained. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I’m very happy to be one of the inaugural Alliance For Higher Education fellows. Higher ed faces some unprecedented challenges and it is an all-hands-on-deck moment for folks working to protect the field.

Glasgow bus delays cost passengers 1.2 million hours per year Glasgow’s traffic congestion is costing local bus users an estimated £24 million a year and wasting 1.2 million hours of passengers’ time annually, according to new research by the Urban Big Data Cent...

Glasgow’s traffic congestion is costing bus users an estimated £24m a year, finds new research by @ubdc.bsky.social commissioned by First Bus.

The study was led by @drdpmcarthur.bsky.social Dr Fiona Crawford and Dr Jose Rafael Verduzco-Torres @uofgussp.bsky.social

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The latest episode of The #Identities Podcast!

Episode 10: The Asian Gang Revisited

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Viktor Orbán is gone. What does his fall mean for Europe? Our panel responds Hungary’s return to democracy will be hard. But the impact of Péter Magyar’s decisive victory could be profound, inside the country and beyond

Several excellent contributions to this @theguardian.com panel on the Hungarian election. I particularly like the one by Zsuzsa Szelény.

“Removing Orbán from office is one thing. Dismantling Orbánism is quite another.”

Good luck Libby, and we'll miss your reporting up here!

Mahmood’s migration changes will deliver fraction of claimed savings, data suggests Exclusive: Analysis of government figures indicates public finances will gain £600m not £10bn if migrants’ access to benefits is reduced

Analysis of MAC data shows any fiscal savings of the settlement reforms would be a small fraction of the billions cited by ministers.

Research from FoI request by @jdportes.bsky.social

The govt must now show its own workings to inform MPs on policy choices

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Election webinar series - University of Glasgow Centre for public Policy, Campaign for Social Science, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Ipsos, Elections 2026. Sign up now via Eventbrite. Event information in the thread that follows.

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😂 (I once met Fikret Alic, the emaciated figure behind the barbed wire who LM effectively defamed. He told me they’d ruined life. Absolutely appalling).

Wow - an incredible story courage. In contrast to RCP cohort who've managed to serve Orban, Boris and Farage... quite the basket of deplorables.

Hmm... tough one but is it less than the number of times his rag "Living Marxism" was successfully sued by ITN for claiming the latter had fabricated its reporting of evidence of ethnic cleaning in Bosnia? bsky.app/profile/pete...

Guess how many times this Spiked piece - which blames Orban’s loss on ‘identity politics’ and ‘therapy culture’ - mentions that Furedi is literally working for Orban?

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Vance’s bad week: vice-president risks becoming face of two Trump foreign policy failures Orbán is out in Hungary and talks have failed to end the war in Iran – ill-fated road trip has been setback for Maga aims

I hear progressives in France are inviting Vance to throw his support behind Bardella... share.google/l9DIL1hj50bX...

British Academy Book Prize Calls For Submissions - All About Book Publishing The British Academy Book Prize opens for submissions as the British Academy — the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences — announces plans to align the prize more closely with it...

'The £25,000 Prize recognises outstanding books in the fields of the humanities and social sciences that combine original thinking, high-quality research and exceptional storytelling.'

Submissions are now open. 1/2

Photos of Professor Nicola McEwen, Professor Kezia Dugdale and Professor Graeme Roy with text reading: Spotlight on the elections.

Tune in to a new podcast series from @uofgpolicy.bsky.social UofG Spotlight: On the Elections 🎧

Hosts @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social, @kezdugdale.bsky.social & @graemeroy.bsky.social will be bringing you episodes covering the big policy issues facing the country.

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📣The Social Policy Association’s Opportunity Grants programme for Spring 2026 is now open for applications!

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'Ceding Sovereignty to the More-Than-Human: A Maori Perspective' with Prof Carl Mika
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