#BBCLauraK just stated that there are terrible problems with the #Scottish#NHS. What's she on about - of course there are problems after 14 years of Tory mismanagement and corruption but we haven't even had strikes here unlike the rest of UK.
Kuenssberg confirms yet again that she's a mouthpiece for Sunak, trotting out exactly the same biased desperate anti-Scottish Government sound bites with which he defends himself at #PMQs.
This isn't journalism. It's gaslighting propaganda. Kuenssberg is another #BBC House Jock, just like Bruce.
I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that the extremist settler movement in Israel is rooted in the USA and culturally has a lot in common with US white supremacist/settler ideology—there's a reason Netanyahu is so comfortable with Republicans who dine at the Christian Nationalist table. https://mastodon.social/@cmonagle/112462865808610948
Biden is on record as a committed Zionist. He has the power to completely halt weapons shipments and financial support for the state of Israel. The US State Department ties itself in knots gaslighting the world about the culmination of 76 years of unbridled colonialism, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians. The US couldn't give a damn about international law. Please don't patronise us with any more excuses: what's happening in Palestine is an obscenity.
"SNP MSPs have been the main target of abusive comments online compared to other parties over the last nine months, a Scottish Parliament monitoring service has found.
"Lynsey Hamill, the Parliament’s Director of Operations and Digital, said the findings... have been “sobering”, with racial and religious abuse cited as a “distinct trend”."
"#Scotland wasn’t mentioned once in [UK] Labour’s big pre-election pitch today [16/5/24].
"[Neither in] Starmer’s 2,631 word speech. Nor the hefty 5,724-word press release which included comments from the likes of Ed Milliband and Yvette Cooper.
"... neither Wales nor Northern Ireland were mentioned either."
On my route to digitising my old negatives. An untouched (you can tell from the dust) photo of Toyah in concert. Taken when I was supplementing my meagre student grant (remember those?) by taking photos for a number of music papers (remember them?).
“I was threatened with arrest and manhandled for doing my job, as far as I can tell.
“I was reporting on the protesters blockading the Thales arms factory in Govan, when one aggressive officer took issue with me being there.
“The police officer in question – who appeared to have some level of authority – repeatedly refused to identify himself or explain what I had been doing to warrant an arrest."
So the Migrant Advisory Committee, after a 14 week investigation has found 'no evidence' of any deliberate abuse of the international student visa scheme;
they're coming here to study.
As the FT delicately puts it:
this has 'placed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a bind, forcing him to either confront those on the Conservative right who want it scrapped, or ignore the advisory group'!
Watch this space.... which way he jumps will tell us a lot about the future of the (rump of) the Tory party