Next stop - upcoming talks.
Looking forward to heading to #Lochgilphead on 6th & 7th February to talk about my experiences working in #Gaza and the #WellbeingEconomy vision for #Scotland.

5 ways our Budget delivers for people in Scotland, explained in under a minute. 👇

“There is a word for this. It is, in my view, fascism.“

Rutger Bregman on Trump and his administration: “It’s really important to understand what this is. Because then we’ll stop being shocked all the time, and we can prepare.”

👀 Scotland’s Wrapped:

✅ Scotland generates the energy.

❌ But pays some of the highest charges for access to its own power.

✍️ It’s time to end Scotland’s energy bill rip-off - Take Action Now: www.believeinscotland.org/end_scotland...

#EndTheRipOff #BelieveinScotland

'Theatre of the Absurd': Venezuelan opposition figure mocked for ‘gifting’ Trump her Nobel peace prize Opposition figure accused of 'pandering' to US president

Venezuela's Machado mocked for giving Trump her Nobel Peace Prize - www.middleeasteye.net/trending/theatre-absurd-...

Insane!

Invading Greenland? Mistake of a Lifetime - Here's why YouTube video by MilitaryRated

Taken from this:

youtu.be/8hdthsG8tks?...

My first public event of 2026 - in Largs 26th January for a discussion on the #WellbeingEconomy as a vision for the people of #Scotland.

Reeves could face £20bn Budget hole as UK productivity downgraded The OBR is understood to have downgraded the UK's productivity level in early Budget forecasts

Chancellor Rachel Reeves admitted on Monday to business leaders in Saudi Arabia that the OBR was "likely to downgrade productivity" which has been "very poor since the financial crisis and Brexit"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In #Oban this Saturday to speak about #Gaza at fundraising dinner for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and giving talk on Wellbeing Economy on Sunday.
If you live nearby, I hope to see you there.

Upcoming talks in #Arbroath, #Dundee, #CastleDouglas, #Kirkcudbright & #Arran.

6 and 9 August 1945. Hiroshima and Nagasaki vanished in a flash, and more than 200,000 lives were lost in just a few days: civilians, families, entire neighbourhoods.

These remain the only nuclear attacks in history.

Eighty years later, the silence still burns.

Karl Hansen: ".. they're all getting their alibis in line.. every one of those politicians & members of the media knows that in future years, they're going to be asked what they did during the genocide"

Every word spot on.

"The Israelis kill Palestinians directly & they kill Palestinians indirectly, and one of the indirect ways is to trigger these epidemics.

ER Dr Tarek Loubani speaking from Gaza on the spread of hepatitis in Gaza

"How do you feel when you see that footage?"

Lisa Nandy: "I feel absolutely sick to the stomach watching that"

But not sick enough to stop supporting, arming & assisting Israel while it does it, right?

Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing Hiroshima’s mayor, Kazumi Matsui, warns of the dangers of rising global militarism.

Hiroshima’s mayor, Kazumi Matsui, warns of the dangers of rising global militarism.

ER Dr Tarek Loubani speaking from Gaza: "I've last far too many patients because of the lack of blood"

"Do you have any specific examples of that happening?"

"I cannot get out of my mind one of the cases, in which a one and a half year old boy was right in front of us.."

Gaza Hiroshima 80 years we've known Blasts that melt the earth Heavy metals stored for generations Arsenic, cadmium Carried by women killing, killing Passed on to their children Killing, still killing And all this 80 years on Repeating threefold The same deliverers of the bombs. An abomination in Gaza Hiroshima

Gaza Hiroshima

On the 80th anniversary of #Hiroshima -

What is the point of saying
NEVER AGAIN! NEVER AGAIN!
Never Again! Never Again!
never again! never again!

If we don’t mean it!

#Gaza

The Great Free Zone Swindle: How Parliament Was Bypassed and the Public Kept in the Dark And because Parliament didn’t debate it, the media didn’t cover it. And because the media didn’t cover it, the public has no idea what’s being done to their councils, their services, and their futures

open.substack.com/pub/european...

Lisa Nandy this morning: "Our message to the Palestinian people is very very clear, there is hope on the horizon"

The horizon.

I saw my land
where my existence is banned

UK still sharing intelligence with Israel as surveillance flights over Gaza continue Despite escalating diplomatic tensions between the two countries, Britain has continued to assist Israel militarily

UK still sharing intelligence with Israel as surveillance flights over Gaza continue - www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-still-sharing-in...

US envoy Witkoff GHF's aid site visit denounced as 'PR stunt' <article data-history-node-id="426651" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-envoy-witkoff-ghf-aid-site-visit-denounced-pr-stunt" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-envoy-witkoff-ghf-aid-site-visit-denounced-pr-stunt" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">US envoy Witkoff GHF's aid site visit denounced as 'PR stunt'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>On Friday, US envoy Steve&nbsp;Witkoff&nbsp;and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee&nbsp;visited an aid site in southern Gaza run by the scandal-plagued Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. At least 859 Palestinians have been gunned down by Israeli soldiers while attempting to receive aid parcels at the distribution points.</p> <p>Witkoff said the purpose of the trip&nbsp;was to give Trump "a clear understanding of the humanitarian situation and help craft a plan to deliver food and medical aid to the people of Gaza".</p> <p>“Incredible feat!” Huckabee&nbsp; said in a<a href="https://x.com/USAmbIsrael/status/1951238042078843160" target="_blank">&nbsp;post on X</a>&nbsp;on Friday, after touring GHF's operations and speaking to "folks on the ground."&nbsp;</p> <p>Palestinians denounced the visit as a PR stunt.</p> <p id="anchor-7eafbd">“It was a PR stunt, a controlled visit supervised and dictated by the Israeli military,” Ellie Burgos, an American critical care nurse volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, told &nbsp;NBC News. “What they saw was not the reality.”</p> <p>Amer Khayrat, a father of two who lives in Gaza City, told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x5jnl5eygo">BBC</a>: &nbsp;"What Gaza needs isn't another envoy with a press team. We need the siege lifted, the bombing stopped, and the blind American support for this war brought to an end."</p> <p>Scott Paul,&nbsp;Oxfam's Americas director of peace and security, told the BBC that Witkoff and Huckabee would have been&nbsp;"confronted by scenes of countless Palestinian children and their families on the brink of starvation displaced in flattened communities outside their convoy windows".</p> <p>"This must be what finally spurs the US to use its full influence to put an end to this catastrophe before we pass the point of no return", he added.</p> <p>On Saturday, Witkoff met with families of Israeli captives held in Gaza in Tel Aviv,&nbsp;as hundreds took to the streets to demand a ceasefire deal, Israeli daily Haaretz is reporting.</p> <p>The visit shortly followed footage of emaciated Israeli captives, Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski&nbsp;published by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.</p> <p>Witkoff assured the families that US will push for a single hostage deal. In a recording of the meeting,&nbsp;Witkoff can be heard saying that&nbsp;"Hamas has said that they are prepared to be demilitarized" and that "Multiple Arab governments are now demanding Hamas demilitarize.</p> <p>"We are very, very close to a solution to end this war," he said, adding that "we don't believe that Hamas speaks for the people ... We believe that they have very little political support".</p> <p>Hamas responded with a statement saying :&nbsp;"We reiterate that resistance and disarmament are a national and legal right as long as the occupation continues.</p> <p>"This right is recognized in international treaties and norms, and cannot be waived except upon the achievement of all our national rights, foremost among them the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital."</p> </div> </div> </article>

US envoy Witkoff GHF's aid site visit denounced as 'PR stunt' - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...

Kemi Badenoch: I don't identify as Nigerian any more The Conservative Party leader says she has not renewed her passport for the West African country in years.

Kemi Badenoch believes everybody's identity is assigned at birth, and nobody should be able to change how they self-identify later in life.

Except for her, of course.

share.google/iypUG9X10tfG...

Israeli author David Grossman brands Gaza war a 'genocide' Prominent writer says it breaks his heart to see mass starvation and bombing from his country

Israeli author David Grossman brands Gaza war a 'genocide' - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-author-davi...

Situation in Gaza a ‘breakdown of humanitarian law’: MSF Canada director Executive Director of MSF Canada Sana Beg on the ‘gut-wrenching crisis’ that is happening in Gaza.

I spoke with CTV News about the man made crisis in #Gaza. #Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide has undermined IHL, led to engineered starvation, and other actions to deliberately obliterate all Palestinians. Today, @msf.ca's teams are witnessing an alarming increase in malnutrition.

John Swinney brands Gaza as ‘genocide’ for first time as Fringe show disrupted JOHN Swinney has described what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza as a “genocide” for the first time ...

NEW: John Swinney has branded Israel's actions in Gaza as a "genocide" for the first time.

"It’s quite clear that there is a genocide in Palestine – it can’t be disputed," he told journalists after a Fringe show which was disrupted by protesters 👇

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

David Linden's fundraiser for Medical Aid for Palestinians Help David Linden raise money to support Medical Aid for Palestinians

As I can’t run myself (other than into the sea at New Year & straight back out again🥶) I’m delighted to sponsor David Linden who is pounding the streets to support @medicalaidpal.bsky.social’s vital work in #Gaza!

If you can, please donate at
www.justgiving.com/page/davidli...

Take note.