Spot on from Melissa Parke. Posturing about nuke "tests" is playing nuclear Jenga, but as in the mid 80s a bit of sense can break through. firstpost.com/world/trump-re…

📢 Join Scotland’s Climate March on Saturday 15th November to demand a better world from our coasts to our cities. 🌊 Assemble @ 11am, Glasgow Green 🪧 Global solidarity | Fair transition | Care for our planet ➡️ climatemarch.scot #ScotlandsClimateMarch #COP30

A powerful message is resonating across #France: from Paris to Marseille, from Lyon to the smallest towns, 100 French cities and regions have now joined the ICAN Cities Appeal, calling on the French government to sign and ratify the TPNW #nuclearban icanw.org/100_french_cit…

discomfortzone.substack.com/p/the-european… The Europeans have come up with a peace plan, and it's not stupid - well worth the read.

European diplomats are shaken that in talks on global shipping pollution rules, US reps made personal threats: if your country votes yes, your relatives lose their US visa etc. Individual sanctions for political disobedience. Doesn't feel so good, does it? politico.eu/article/us-acc…

All the right people will be raging about this

Last week, a story broke about a German high school student facing criminal (!!!) charges for posting comedic memes about Bundeswehr youth officers visiting schools. Now, in this interview, he tells a story that's even more disturbing - and encouraging. berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…

And Rosalind Franklin.

nuclearinfo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Join our webinar with NIS on Tuesday 11th for full briefing.

Honoured to be sharing some poems as part of this remembrance event at the Quaker Meeting House in Edinburgh on Sunday… eventbrite.co.uk/e/alternative-…

Remembrance & White Poppies bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/08/rem… Poppies for Peace

By our Organiser Janet Fenton

Centuries of overgrazing & muirburn for grouse moors mean Highland Scotland looks treeless & desolate. But it doesn't have to be this way. New film Scotland's Missing Forests went online y'day. Chuffed to see almost 10k views. Pls share youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV1S… Chris Packham

Lots of people sniggering at this, but Zack Polanski is absolutely correct: if we are ever going to have a denuclearized world, we must convince each other. We have done it before, starting in the Cold War, when the West and the SU engaged in reciprocal, coordinated disarmament.

Don't miss our webinar tomorrow about the pitfalls and risks of renuclearising the RAF. Register here: nuclearinfo-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Scottish CND LakenheathAllianceForPeace

#cop30 This, in spite of huge popular majority worldwide for real climate action - need to bang more loudly on the doors of power. undp.org/publications/p…

Chicken Licken and the Security Paradox. "Take just one example – nuclear weapons. They are promoted as a means to guarantee our security but the reality is precisely the opposite. " securescotland.substack.com/p/chicken-lick…

Under Nicola Sturgeon & Humza Yousaf the Scottish Government rightly opposed the Rosebank oil field proposal. John Swinney has sadly dropped that opposition and tried to avoid taking a position at all. That's not good enough, so tomorrow the Scottish Greens will force a vote.

Watch it! A House of Dynamite (Netflix) lays bare the nuclear knife-edge, the folly of deterrence theory and the uselessness of “missile defence”. Until we get rid of them we will keep coming back to this terrifying point. ICAN