john gilbert

Wanting to raise the standards of social and sheltered housing in Scotland

[Tommy Sheridan @citizentommy]

This is Israel. Be ashamed. Be very ashamed 😢

[Tuesday Adams™ 🌹 @TuesdayAdams111]

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[Newsnet.Scot @NewsnetScotland]

Interesting thought although Kamala perhaps stronger option. A woman best to beat Trump

[Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP @Jenny4SuffCoast]

On the 4th July, for the first time in my life - and probably yours - we can see change in Suffolk Coastal. But you'll need to vote for it.

It's a two horse race, which is why @BestForBritain and all other sites are recommending you vote Labour if you want to see change here.

[Robert Horvath @RG_Horvath]

When Putinism lies in ruins, Russians will remember the fearless moral clarity of this prison letter from Darya Kozyreva, a medical student first expelled from university and then arrested for her antiwar actions.

'Russia is wrapped in a heavy, impenetrable cocoon, a cocoon of silence. How many crimes the Putin dictatorship has committed, how many foreign cities it has seized and devastated, how many killings and tortures it has meted out, and the response to all these outrages is a deafening silence.

Many prefer not to know what is happening, to close their eyes and stop listening. Many deceive themselves, wishing to be deceived - after all it is so easy to believe blindly what the television says, even if it is broadcasting the most monstrous lies.

But many know perfectly well what this vile regime is doing. They endure the burden of their dissent, their outrage, their anger. And all the same, they are silent.

Just as any crime is committed with somebody's tacit consent, so any dictatorship is maintained thanks to the people's silence. A colossus with feet of clay will be worthless if all the dissenters speak out.

But they are silent.

One person thinks that everything has been decided, and that there is no reason for them, a minor figure, to get mixed up in this. Another hopes that others will say everything - but those others also find excuses to remain silent.

The real reason for this silence is human fear, visceral fear. No dictatorship can make everyone believe in it - therefore it constantly resorts to fear, its first and last instrument for subjugating the people.

Germans in the era of Hitler obediently shouted 'Heil,' understanding the consequences of disobedience; Soviet people in the era of Stalin were afraid to whisper in their own kitchens for fear of being denounced. The steamroller of repression doesn't need to crush every dissenter, just a few demonstrative examples, and the rest will gag their own mouths.

The absurdity of Putinist repression has reached such heights that any trifle can become a pretext for persecution - and no one knows what one can say. The criminal in the Kremlin is satisfied; that's exactly what he needs. As long as everyone is silent, his own skin will be safe.

That is precisely why one cannot stay silent. No, human fear is understandable: it is very difficult to risk one's position, one's future, one's freedom. To say nothing of the fact that many have families - for these people, the fear is doubled. But will it be easier for these families to live under a dictatorship, under tightening screws, behind an iron curtain?

A dictatorship can continue to wreak its atrocities, its lawlessness, as long as it feels strength and power. Nothing will change as long as everyone remains submissively silent.

So perhaps the time has come to start speaking?

Everyone who can speak, must speak. The individuals who dared to speak up are now too few to move anything. Everyone must speak, who does not agree with the Moscow regime. Individuals can easily be put behind bars for their words, because they are individuals. But there are not enough prisons for everyone, for all the dissenters in Russia. Even if the regime builds just as many especially for them.

When, having overcome fear, everyone begins to speak out, it will time for Putin's gang to be afraid.

No evil lasts for ever, any dictatorship will inevitably collapse. It can collapse of its own weight, like the USSR, or thanks to the uprising of the people.

Don't let this dictatorship live any longer than it can. Speak out, people!

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

This is the best interview on Russian #NuclearMongering I have ever seen. Watch brilliant @walberque from @StimsonCenter, a former @IISS_org Technology and Arms Control Director, explaining complicated things. This is a part of our @EuroResilience interview with William Alberque, the full interview under a link below ⬇️

[Architects’ Journal @ArchitectsJrnal]

NEWS: John Gilbert Architects refurbishes Glasgow’s oldest residential building

https://t.co/0L6nj0SiUU

[michael baggott @baggottsilver]

Less “Hinge & Bracket”, more “Hammer & Chisel”

#MagnaCarta
#BritishMuseum

[Xtrabiggg @xtrabiggg]

The very best propaganda motivates indoctrinated useful idiots to advocate for their own personal destruction & for destruction of their society.
Elderly 'climate activists' attempt to break the glass case around the Magna Carta at the Royal British Museum.

Baaaaaah...🐑🐑🐑

[Clare Wills Harrison @AwakenedOf]

Some old people that genuinely look like they have only a short while to live have "attacked" the magna carta at the British Museum, on behalf of just stop oil 🙈

Who has radicalised these pensioners 🤣🤣

The whole thing was filmed by a gent with a thick European accent 🤣🤣

[max seddon @maxseddon]

This must be the first Pulitzer won by someone in IK-7 prison in Omsk, Siberia. Congrats to @vkaramurza!

[The Portobello Bookshop @PortyBooks]

What an amazing night last night was at a packed @PortyTownHall, with 600 people turning up to hear @valmcdermid talk about her fantastic new book, Queen Macbeth, in conversation with @NicolaSturgeon. 📚 Thank you to everyone who came along! ❤️

📸 by @GregMacvean

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

There must be no Israeli offensive in Rafah. It would be counterproductive and morally indefensible.

We need an immediate and sustained ceasefire, all hostages must be released, humanitarian aid must be delivered immediately and sustainably to all parts of Gaza.

[Steve Cohen @RepCohen]

Congratulations to my courageous friend Vladimir Kara-Murza on winning American journalism’s highest honor. #VKM continues to speak truth about #Putin and his unjust war in #Ukraine even from prison, and it's my hope that this prize in some tangible way protects him from harm.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

https://t.co/cyDVFyCAGh

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Vladimir Kara-Murza is exactly the right recepient of a Pulitzer Prize. I am so happy for him, whom I count as my friend.

[Niall Murphy @MurphyNiallGLA]

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: Finished my talk last night and walked out into a glorious West Coast of Scotland sunset with James Miller’s red sandstone Caledonian Mansions - one of Scotland’s finest tenements - glowing in the gloaming. Definitely feels like Spring now 🌱🥰👍!

[Gino Spocchia @GinoSpoc]

Never mind interim climate targets, what about embodied carbon targets?

Some voices on Scotland's net zero 'rollback' in the @ArchitectsJrnal, including @55n @F_L_Architects @ArchitectsCAN, here:
https://t.co/sroJiu5AFQ

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

What we do next matters, because it will define all our futures. 🌍