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Wolves. We need wolves. In quantity.

06.03.2026 22:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Three rings for Elven kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf Lords in their halls of stone
Nine for mortal men doomed to die
None for the Hobbits because I totally forgot those guys. That’s never gonna work out badly for me.

Also none for the orcs because fuck ‘em. I own them already.

06.03.2026 15:46 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Urgent call to protect civilians and respect international law as Middle East conflict intensifies As regional conflict intensifies after US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Amnesty International calls for civilian protection and full compliance with international law.

Wars have rules for a reason.

Civilians should never pay the price of any conflict.

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03.03.2026 20:45 👍 76 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 3

Fuck off Spectator. My 15 and 12 year old kids read books in stacks, are the social media generation and have way more cop on and resilience than I (born 1974) had at that age.

06.03.2026 16:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Old news!

216,000 now!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

06.03.2026 16:38 👍 973 🔁 175 💬 29 📌 17

'The government must not weaken copyright law, and should instead strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement.
The government should stop prioritising large multinational tech firms'

Training larger language models is not an academic pursuit. Training material should licensed and paid for.

06.03.2026 09:43 👍 49 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0

Stunning victory in Stroud last night.

Look at that majority! 💚😍

Huge congratulations to @helenelliott-boult.bsky.social and the entire team!

Join our movement:

Join.greenparty.org.uk

06.03.2026 08:09 👍 2147 🔁 460 💬 88 📌 17

The two legacy parties, Labour and Tory are in freefall, especially Labour, losing 2/3 of its vote!

06.03.2026 13:49 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 12:29 👍 9135 🔁 4400 💬 527 📌 611
We are hiring! Strategic Campaigns & Partnership Coordinator - Full Time at Equality Network. Find out more here: equality-network.org/about/vacancies

We are hiring! Strategic Campaigns & Partnership Coordinator - Full Time at Equality Network. Find out more here: equality-network.org/about/vacancies

📢 We’re hiring – Equality Network is seeking a new Strategic Partnerships and Campaigns Coordinator, to work on LGBTQIA+ equality and human rights in Scotland with a specific focus on trans equality. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Want to find out more? Visit our website: www.equality-network.org/about/vacanc...

06.03.2026 09:01 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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Labour resists shift on student migration despite Green pressure Calls to loosen restrictions on international students in wake of shock defeat to left-wing party in by-election may go unheard without leadership change, say experts

By @helenpacker.bsky.social in the @timeshighered.bsky.social

06.03.2026 09:09 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
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The Two Deprivations Are poorer constituencies going green of turquoise?

The Two Deprivations
open.substack.com/pub/parables...

06.03.2026 09:14 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 3
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Greens are on course for our best ever result at Holyrood. But it doesn't happen without working together for it.

Come and say hello tomorrow in East Kilbride at 2pm, St Leonard's Square.

We will be listening to people on the doorsteps and leafleting together. Please pop down and say hello.

06.03.2026 09:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

06.03.2026 10:09 👍 1337 🔁 363 💬 22 📌 4
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The US and Israel are waging war on an Iran they think they know. The reality is very different | Ali Vaez Is the Islamic Republic a messianic theocracy or a brittle dictatorship? It’s neither – as those attacking it are finding out, says Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group

"Even many Iranians who oppose the regime and wanted foreign military intervention to topple it are reluctant to see the state collapse entirely, fearing the chaos that might follow. There is a difference between wanting the system to change and wanting the country to break."

06.03.2026 07:02 👍 49 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 1
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London: Quaker Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again | ICN This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young non...

Police raid Westminster Quaker Meeting House again. #PeacefulProtest
#Nonviolence
www.indcatholicnews.com/news/54502

06.03.2026 07:22 👍 19 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 5
Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain

This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act.

The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people.

Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said:

“For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. 
“Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent.

“That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”

Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

05.03.2026 23:49 👍 293 🔁 152 💬 9 📌 21
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Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

02.03.2026 22:54 👍 4369 🔁 675 💬 90 📌 101
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In defence of hand-wringers and pearl-clutchers To surrender the fight for international law is to accept worse outcomes and more civilian deaths

Three cheers for @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. Am reading and listening to too many self-styled fans of liberal democracy saying, in effect, 'let's park international law for the moment and talk about....'

06.03.2026 06:32 👍 113 🔁 36 💬 2 📌 4
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Scotland must always remain a safe, welcoming country for migrants and refugees.

@lornaslater.bsky.social #BBCdn

04.03.2026 22:24 👍 127 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 1

When Cosmo says that UK trans women are being persecuted by a perverse and malevolent campaign that has captured the highest echelons of the political/media class, will someone hear them?

05.03.2026 11:24 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

If you are a doctor or a nurse, the Minimum Income Requirement doesn't allow your foreign national spouse to live with you in this country

05.03.2026 08:09 👍 82 🔁 41 💬 7 📌 0
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Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

27.02.2026 08:02 👍 129 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 18

I’ve written about this excellent piece before in my own take on Labour’s “midlife crisis“ but this really was the warning sign from almost six months ago that the data was saying something very different from Number 10’s rhetoric.

05.03.2026 08:44 👍 47 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 1

And of course the USA sponsors the new government in Syria, so Rojava is threatened at the same time USA is now sponsoring armed revolt of Kurds in Iran. So, impossible now for Rojava to be a bridgehead to a properly independent Kurdistan (?) and even more likely that Rojava will be expunged?

05.03.2026 08:10 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Gillian Mackay joins Palestine protestors outside Parliament.

Gillian Mackay joins Palestine protestors outside Parliament.

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It has been 6 months since the Scottish Government backed Greens calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.

Today I stood with campaign groups outside Parliament demanding action.

Companies profiting from genocide against Palestinians should not be allowed to profit in Scotland.

04.03.2026 19:10 👍 72 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0

Read my accessible analysis of Goodwin v UK – why it still matters, and what the courts are getting wrong – here:

04.03.2026 16:21 👍 265 🔁 94 💬 3 📌 3
50% of Scottish adults admit to littering in the last 12 months.

50% of Scottish adults admit to littering in the last 12 months.

The Keep Scotland Beautiful campaign that everybody can take part in to tackle Scotland’s litter. Businesses, community groups, schools... #SpringCleanScotland 2026 will be held between 13 March and 24 April 2026.


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04.03.2026 16:57 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed Almost every day, the establishment seems to get it wrong trying to use Donald Trump’s words to paint him as a dire threat to our democracy. What so many fail to see—and what his supporters have long ...

We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed

04.03.2026 01:45 👍 1695 🔁 285 💬 6 📌 6

Another great poll for the Greens! This time we're pulling ahead of Reform. And the fieldwork for this was done before the Gorton & Denton by-election win.

It's clear that more and more people understand that a Green vote will defeat the far right.

04.03.2026 13:00 👍 55 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0