What a messy week in UK politics. Liz Truss’s hate tour of America, Lee Anderson and Suella Braverman whipping up Islamophobia and our expose of Sir Paul Marshall of GB News.

Large #Ukraine protest outside the Russian Consulate in Edinburgh this afternoon. More on STV News tonight👇🏻

If ever there was going to be a moderate right political party based on reason rather than fear, Ruth would surely be the sort of leader you’d expect.

Sue McKee Bearly Politics Douglas Clark What happened? People fell in love with a lying, self-serving, narcissistic psycho- buffoon named Johnson, because with him, they could be xenophobes and racists but feel "decent patriots". …And blame the misery in their lives on faceless "foriners". Quite medieval, really…

What a subtle deflection from Jenny Gilruth whilst talking to martin geissler about behaviour in Scottish schools. Demonising young people? Upset about violence towards teachers isn’t doing that. It’s the system, not the teachers that aren’t giving the weans the conditions to thrive

Since anti-vaxxers like RFK Jr. still don't understand simple public health concepts, here's a classic visualization from Penn & Teller.

NEW: Cuts in Glasgow are more severe than initially realised, Emma Seith can reveal - they amount to 450 teaching jobs over three years, with the previously indicated figure of 172 applying only to one year. tes.com/magazine/news/… Tes Scotland Tes Susan Quinn Seamus Searson

Victoria Derbyshire, "Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness. That's the definition put forward by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims" "Despite that, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

How George Galloway speaks to his constituents when he thinks there are no cameras around. He’ll be gone in May/November at the GE. #Rochdale

My timeline is just full of dead children - dead children drowning in the Channel, dead children killed by Israel's bombs in Gaza, dead children killed by Russia's bombs in Odesa. It's too much horror. All these powers, all these policies, killing children.

“Some people protesting were, themselves, Jewish. Both Palestinian and Israeli flags were seen being held by demonstrators.” bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

I listen to a fair bit of new music but it seems nothing beats the old faithfuls 🤘🏼

Every once in a while I’m reminded of why I’ve pretty much withdrawn completely from this platform, when you hear of the actions of some in the name of good will, good practice and so on. What a huge, massive letdown some people can be 🤷‍♂️. Scottish education. Get a grip 🙄 😞

4 or 5 months since I looked at X. Not that this will be earth shattering for anyone. Get to Blue Sky. It’s like X…. In almost no way whatsoever. You’d love it. No snake oil allowed.