The situation in Berlin is extremely tense. Police are literally arresting anyone they seen on the street who even says “free palestine” or wears a keffiyah. An hour ago German police arrested one of the most important Palestinian activists in Germany, @RamsyKilani
Greenock's latest mural is this stunning image of a breastfeeding mermaid by the artist Sam Bates, aka Smug.
It's on the end of a row of tenements opposite the site of my old school. Aim is to spark conversation & to normalise breastfeeding in the community.
Photo credit: Smug
🔴 UPDATE: The Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections has reported several instances where people's right to vote in privacy has been violated.
More here ⤵️
https://t.co/dfEAYQnTF6
Edinburgh Van Gogh exhibition is a sensory experience but not the one you expect. It is full of kids running around packed with that many people you are unable to see half the floor to ceiling screens.
This week, 15,000 US led troops will simulate a NATO war with Russia less than 100 miles from Saint Petersburg. Imagine the same provocation 100 miles from nuclear-armed Washington.
https://t.co/dun71DrLyT
Any notion that big energy investment in renewables will lead to lower home energy prices is a fiction
The Scottish Government sold £360bn/25yrs worth of renewables profit for just £700m
Scotland could have enjoyed £5.5bn per annum profit, but will be lucky to see £60-90m
giving the WHO, a global unelected body, extra powers to impose ‘one size fits all’ health measures on world citizens without any accountability, is truly Orwellian.
https://t.co/OFehoilDSZ
‘It is a matter of disgrace that the DUP with the support and connivance of the British Govt have moved to frustrate the democratic will of the people’ Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Féin
The Treasury is raking in billions more tax on petrol, diesel, North Sea oil and gas and domestic heating at these high prices. They should give some of that back in tax cuts and Universal Credit increase.
I agree with AS here, if we don't get a referendum next year, there will be huge political change in Scotland. Assuming we do, let's all work together to get our Independence. #indyref
@Peston Why would a country formed on the basis of #Apartheid, have the automatic right to exist? It is up to the people of the country to decide if they want to utterly change this country to a functioning democratic socialist country with equal rights for all, including a name change.