Imagine being the kind of person whose vanity is more important to them than ethics, that they would pay for a meaningless blue tick on this garbage truck of a site

Hell Jumper review – the heartstopping tale of the volunteer who saved hundreds of Ukrainians theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

I sincerely hope my fellow Scots have grasped the problem isn’t another working class person with a different religion or colour of skin. The enemy are those who seek to have us fight one another while they exploit all of us. For aw that.

Figen Amazing Paralympic blind runner with her hero guide...

“The son of immigrants.” For these people, we’ll never really be British.

some much needed Olympics News

“Tory culture wars stoked the far-right,” Dame Sara Khan, the former counter-extremism commissioner, says the rhetoric used by some senior politicians in recent years has given a green light to those holding racist views: theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

BREAKING London, Paris stock markets fall over 2% at the open

Always proud to be Scottish but particularly so these last few days

Musk sharing a disinformation channel (state-backed?) with its message designed to stoke inter-minority prejudice. There is a very effective programme of support for Jewish community spaces that this emergency support emulates, as UK govt adviser on antisemitism confirms.

One said, 'I'm just doing an hour before I go to work.' Hundreds turned out at 8am to help clean up Linthorpe Road and streets in central Middlesbrough. After yesterday's violence and destruction, today's community action shows our city at its best.

This group of women have been clearing up outside the hotel in Tamworth. They all live locally and decided to give up their free time this morning. They say last night’s disorder doesn’t represent their town and they want to “spread love”.

*Wildly* unprofessional of him. Especially given he has the job because the last incumbent in the job lost public trust.

Unable to verify this video myself, but it appears to show protestors inside Sheikh Hasina’s house after she fled. Lying on her bed, ransacking her personal items. For years there’s been deep anger in #Bangladesh. Now she’s ousted. Remarkable scenes.

“No justification for Elon Musk’s civil war claim, says PM” Musk does seem to be enjoying the scenes across England and is profiting from the instability through his app which is playing a direct role in the riots. How long will he be enabled to do so? thetimes.com/article/eee5eb…

Why would he fix it? It’s doing exactly what he wants it to:

Can't say this enough; Elon Musk's menace to democracy is intolerable. He's using the largest & most influential platform in the democratic world to stoke racial conflict and civil breakdown - in his own posts & what X promotes. Democracies can no longer ignore this.

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