Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.
Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).
Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.
Citizens; heroes.
Scotland has the lowest child poverty rate in the UK, and 90,000 fewer children live in poverty thanks to our policies.
But decisions at Westminster have too often held us back.
I want to fully eradicate child poverty, and Scotland should have the full powers to do it.
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.
Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.
The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.
The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.
A huge fire is currently blazing in Glasgow city centre
Emergency services have been tackling the blaze on Union Street since around 4pm on Sunday
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NEW: Scottish Labour have been urged to come clean on 'creeping' and 'secret' plans to privatise Scotland's NHS following an intervention from a think tank founded by Tony Blair
π www.thenational.scot/news/2...
A reminder. Israel currently stands accused of a genocide in Gaza, an illegal war in Iran, mass displacement in Lebanon and attacking Syrian sovereignty. Is this designed to be the new norm? Shifting focus away from Gaza into more widespread chaos and instability?
Can't believe this is the game I missed! I'll watch the highlights later but it's not the same. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
One of the most powerful things I've read in years, and a real dropping of the scales moment for something vile that has been insidiously poisoning everything for decades
jameelajamil.substack.com/p/ah-shit-we...
More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave.
No different to the old BNP or National Front voters.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
CAMHS are only taking referrals for emergency mental health at the moment. We are a long way from having anything to celebrate I'm afraid.
This has been on the front page of the BBC Scotland website all morning. It talks about βeight years after the referendumβ. The latter was in 2014. A child could do the arithmetic better!
An incredible retraction by the Daily Telegraph today. They have apologised for publishing an article last year headlined: βWe earn Β£345k, but soaring private school fees mean we canβt afford to go on five holidays.β The entire story was fabricated; the family did not exist.
I guess this is where the reintroduction of curable diseases comes into its own .
π¨ It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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At least we now know the one issue on which Keir Starmer will never u-turn: Scottish independence. Heβll twist and turn on any other matter - even war - but heβs an implacable mountain of certainty when it comes to democracy, or the denial of it, in Scotland
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
π¨Today, the UK government announced harsh new asylum rules that will make refugee status for people fleeing war and persecution temporary.
These proposals are cruel, unworkable and undemocratic.
Here is our response: https://scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/cruel-asylum-changes-unworkable/
SNL had a disgusting ableist segment that made a mockery of Tourette's - the video is the very definition of punching down
By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
There was a news bulletin on New year's Day this year which was about tourists coming to the UK for New Year . The vox pop was in Edinburgh but Edinburgh and Scotland were not mentioned.
Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
Six years ago, his principles were entirely different.
Spanish PM Pedro SΓ‘nchez: βToday more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regimeβ¦and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.β
BREAKING: The UK has agreed to a US request to use British military bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites, Keir Starmer has said
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What an utterly disgusting and dangerous front page from the Mail today. Surely by now everyone can see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities and migrants to gain support. Everyone it seems except the Mail
The whole world knows you raped children. Then you go start another war. Do you really believe we'll forget? Do you think this makes you look less guilty?
What. Utter. Sh*te. Look out England. You're in for the same extreme negative reporting by the establishment and their media pals that we've had in Scotland for decades. No straw is too low for them to grasp, nor barrel so deep to scrape.
Luskentyre Beach, Isle of Harris.
Pic: IG/johnspate
A fresh roadmap setting out how Scotland can go further in land reform has been published by the Scottish Land Commission
Here's all you need to know π
These Tory ministers sold profitable harbours like Ardrossan to enable shareholders to milk rather than to maintain them, Labour then did nothing and now the SNP Government is blamed for not buying it back and repairing it quickly enough? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/27/t...
