Severin Carrell

Thank you Anita - Libby did the heavy lifting here

Really insightful explainer and update on the dreadful Glasgow fire and its impact which must have been challenging to write today. Kudos to @libbybrooks.bsky.social and @severincarrell.bsky.social

Fire near Glasgow Central station causes major rail disruption Dozens of trains cancelled and station closed after blaze at building on Union Street Train passengers are facing major disruption after a fire broke out near Glasgow Central station. Dozens of trains were cancelled on Sunday evening after the blaze at a building in Union Street. Continue reading...

Fire near Glasgow Central station causes major rail disruption

Alba party to wind up and not contest Scottish election Pro-independence party formed by Alex Salmond in 2021 had suffered membership fall and financial crisis The Alba party has announced that it will wind up and not field any candidates for the 2026 Scottish parliament election. The pro-independence party was formed in 2021 by the late Alex Salmond as a “new political force” but has been suffering from a sharp fall in membership and a financial crisis. Continue reading...

Alba party to wind up and not contest Scottish election

Video reportedly showing the moment Manib school was hit in Iran.
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In 2018 Hegseth’s mother, Penelope, sent him an email that said: “You are an abuser of women – that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. As your mother it pains me and embarrasses me to say that..."

BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’ The self-styled “punk” beer company BrewDog sold its Highland estate for a knockdown price after abandoning its efforts to plant Scotland’s “biggest ever forest” there. BrewDog’s co-founder James Watt claimed its Lost Forest project at Kinrara in the Cairngorms national park would cover a “staggering area” and capture tens of millions of tonnes of CO2 during its lifetime. Continue reading...

BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans

Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse? The closing of a cluster of leading creative venues has led to dismay and intensified fears the hubs that fostered Glasgow’s celebrated arts scene are disappearing

Is Glasgow losing the spaces that made it an arts powerhouse?

BrewDog sold highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning reforestation plans Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’

BrewDog sold its Highland estate for knockdown price after abandoning its reforestation plans #Kinrara #carboncredits #greenlairds #Brewdog 🌳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇

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Last saw TB sitting in the front row while Trump launched his “Board of Peace” in Davos, so yeah, that figures.

You've got to be kidding me...

Picture of Farage from GB News website with the caption For GB News's funders, £130m is a small price to pay fro vast influence

GB News, the channel of “reactionary rage bait”, has released its latest accounts showing a £22m loss for 2024/25 (and a £131m total loss since launch)

Yet another demonstration that there’s no shortage of funds on the right of British politics, writes @writesbright.bsky.social for the Nerve

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Russia is helping Iran to target US military assets in Middle East Tehran using intelligence shared by Moscow to launch retaliatory drone and missile attacks

FT exclusive:

Russia has shared targeting intelligence with Iran, including locations of American military assets in the Middle East, as Tehran unleashes a barrage of drone and missile strikes against the US and its allies, said people familiar with the matter.

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If you thought food was expensive before wait until this cycles through the farming industry

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Scottish avalanche forecasters – photo essay Photographer Murdo MacLeod patrols the snow with members of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, which has for several decades published a vital daily avalanche forecast for mountain areas

Photographer Murdo MacLeod patrols Scotland's hills with members of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, which has since 1988 published daily forecasts of the avalanche risk in six mountain areas.

h/t @severincarrell.bsky.social @theguardian.com

Can you make hummus on the moon? Scientists are small step closer

Can you make hummus on the moon? Scientists are small step closer

anyone got a postcard? #answersonapostcard

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding fluctuations such as El Niño - by our Ajit Niranjan, our European climate correspondent 👇🌳🌍

#climateheating #climatecrisis

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"A potential avalanche is a tricky foe, often almost invisible to the ordinary adventurer. Sometimes, there are obvious indicators, such as a cornice sticking out from a summit like a freeze-frame windblown comb-over" ❄️

The Scottish avalanche forecasters – photo essay Photographer Murdo MacLeod patrols the snow with members of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, which has for several decades published a vital daily avalanche forecast for mountain areas

"Scottish avalanches are back. More than 200 have been recorded this winter" - some brilliant photo-journalism from @theguardian.com's Murdo Macleod, an expert climber and photographer ❄️🏔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇

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Adding Qatar’s energy minister to the list of oil and energy market types beginning to really freak out.

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NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Two police officers were suspended on full pay for *four years* over racist, misogynistic, homophobic messages, only to resign ahead of this week's misconduct hearing.

Why did it take so long? A lack of available personnel to chair the panel

Another great (and alarming) story by Conor

IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays.

The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they pay X for its premium service and could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false

This weekend’s Sunday Post.