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Devastating news about last night’s #glasgowschoolofart fire. Several questions still need to be answered: What ignited it? Why was the alarm raised by a passing policeman not a fire alarm system in the building? Why was there no fire containment in the new or the old build?

When asked by a reporter how he can defend Kim Jong Un’s human-rights violations in North Korea, Donald Trump claims that he has had to to prevent a nuclear attack on the United States. As supposed leader of the free-world, the President is setting a dangerous precedent to come.

Should the human rights abusing Putin regime be allowed to score a PR coup with the #WorldCup2018, despite their contempt to Russian and Chechen LGBT people? Absolutely not, and such behaviour should be treated as an international disgrace.