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The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 6 - 8 March 2026 Red infection incident alert level at QEUH, council in talks to sell dozens of museum artefacts, Partick church to become events venue, council loses bid to remove Govan showpeople + The Weekend Guide

The Glasgow Wrap 🗞 Weekend Guide 6 - 8 March 2026
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A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

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You don’t need to ‘balance’ between Farage and the Greens’ view of immigration. You don’t need to be a little bit Fascist. You need not to be Fascist at all.

Just this second tho! And it's a mash up of crime, seance story, fantasy and a bit of sf. Four genres in very different stages of development.

This #worldcon bid and our friends at Explore Edmonton are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

We believe that our city’s strength lies in its diversity. Edmonton is a place where different cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives come together to create a vibrant and inclusive community.

I am proud to be part of the @edmontonin2030.bsky.social bid. What's that? We are putting ourselves forward in a bid to host the 2030 Worldcon...in Edmonton Canada.
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They also have a very spiffy apron.

I love this book. It's just so weird.

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Image of the dark reddish brown book cover for the semi-biographical fiction work "Yet She Lives" by Lisa Hannett, about the Fierce and Fantastical Women of Norse Mythology. The cover image by Australian book designer Andy Warren is of papercut artwork depicting a Norse mask in brown, with little wings of white, and long, flowing tresses in coral, rust, and dark reddish brown.

Favourite Australian thing to do: Take holidays. This sounds flippant, but I really appreciate how Australians value personal time.

My next work: "Yet She Lives" is out early 2026!

Image of author Lisa Hannett with long blonde hair, wearing a grey shirt and a dress with an ornate bodice with brass emblems and bead strings, standing in a grove of trees.

If you’ve visited Brisbane, what’s your favourite thing to do: Spending a few hours at the GOMA – it’s such a great art gallery – and then visiting local bookshops like Avid Reader and Pulp Fiction to make sure my TBR pile is always teetering.

Image of author Lisa Hannett wearing a white shirt and and ornate bodice with brass emblems and bead strings, lying on the grass, with her russet hair splayed out on the ground.

Aussie Author Spotlight: Lisa L. Hannett

Based in: Adelaide, land of great wine, great food, great coffee, and significantly less snow than my home country of Canada.

Links: Instagram: www.instagram.com/lisalhannett
Website: lisahannett.com

#elevatingAustralasianCreators

The god-fearing women of the 17th century Amid civil war and regicide, a group of women claimed the right to speak directly for God, asserting spiritual authority in a society that denied them a voice.

Amid civil war and regicide, a group of women claimed the right to speak directly for God, asserting spiritual authority in a society that denied them a voice.

The god-fearing women of the 17th century | @katherineharvey.bsky.social

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All the New Fantasy Books Arriving in March 2026 - Reactor This March, spend time at a magical hotel, with a wicked witch, the undying, and more...

Okay there are a LOT of books coming out in March 2026. Let's start with the fantasy novels, including new Ilona Andrews, new Ava Reid, and new Jenn Lyons!! 🌳💀📖

#booksky

In his speech today Andy Burnham cited our poll finding that record numbers now think the cost of living crisis will never end. Totally right imo it is 'code red' - it's not just that life is too hard for too many at the moment - but people have also lost hope it will get better X Mr Burnham described polling by More in Common which found a majority of people do not think the cost-of-living crisis will ever end as 'code red for Westminster politics'. He added: "This is getting extremely dangerous, and change in our political system and culture is desperately needed." 2 L71 07 贝 企 Luke Tryl •@LukeTryl • 31m Q And if people think things can never get better than why would they stick with the status quo, they will become more willing to roll the dice on something new entirely and further driving the rise of 'burn it all down' sentiment i talked about yesterday.

This is unfortunate, because the entire point of both this government and the previous one was: Fuck you, it will never be better. Whatever promises Johnson made, there was never any intent do anything more than a new flowerbed on a roundabout and maybe a few new leisure centres.

A navy torpedo detonates under the target, lifts it out of the water and cracks the hull. The people who aren’t thrown overboard by the blast are knocked unconscious and buried alive in their compartments when the ship sinks. We did that to 141 people today for no reason.

Planets Everywhere

Reminder: the Science for Fiction podcast current has two episodes - The Random Universe and Planets Everywhere - available via your usual podcast services eg. open.spotify.com/show/7HzQoyN...

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

If you are a client of a firm that folded in this fight, you should know that not only were they morally wrong, but they were also strategically dumb www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Perth, Scotland, this evening.

I have openings in my editing calendar for immediate work and future bookings. I work with novellas and novels, and with many genres. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing and I'm always happy to answer questions.

Dubai, the UAE, the glittery, modern, luxurious, ‘safe’ world you have is built on the blood and backs of labor from south, Southeast Asia and Africa in execrable, documented enduring conditions. How easily people ignore the ugly behind the designer stores and flashy tourist traps

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.

But I think I'd say that journals require a quite rigid dispassion and a clear disciplinary understanding and framing . A chapter article can be a lot more playful and personal.

Well I can get chapters accepted as i mean them to be, while articles are subjected to the whims of strange peer reviewers and over active journal editors. I finally abandoned journals.

Amid the discussions about how to get kids reading, I am remembering how many comics and other periodicals I read as a kid - The Funday Times, Oink, The Puffin Post, Private Eye (I was a precocious little shit), The Beano, 2000AD etc etc. Reading in tiny little bits can be v appealing.

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

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PinkNews launches survey on impacts of the Supreme Court's gender ruling LGBTQ+ news publisher PinkNews has launched a survey focused on the impacts of the UK Supreme Court's gender ruling.

Ahead of the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling, I am leading a survey on its impacts on people's day-to-day lives.

The online survey will run from Monday, 2 March to Monday, 30 March 2026.

The responses will form part of an overall report.

Survey link: forms.gle/g1578gYHu28k...

Americans are often shocked when I tell them that according to every single Arab Barometer poll issued, which tracks opinion across almost all of the Arab majority states, the US is consistently listed as the number one threat and impediment to regional stability.