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Scotland’s schools surging ahead of those in England in literacy and numeracy attainment talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/09/s...
Scotland’s schools surging ahead of those in England in literacy and numeracy attainment
For P1, P4 and P7 pupils combined, the proportion achieving the expected levels in 2024-25 is the highest to date for literacy and the equal highest for numeracy. For S3 pupils, the proportions ach…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Scotland’s schools surging ahead of those in England in literacy and numeracy attainment talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/09/s...
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What a shame that no one in the White House seems to read @ldfreedman.bsky.social’s analysis. They have a much better idea of what’s going on if they did.
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
On how Ukraine should respond to the US "peace plan" and looking at some new details that emerged over the last 24 hours.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/how-should...
On how Ukraine should respond to the US "peace plan" and looking at some new details that emerged over the last 24 hours.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/how-should...
How should Ukraine respond?
And more details on the "peace plan"
samf.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
What a shame that no one in the White House seems to read @ldfreedman.bsky.social’s analysis. They have a much better idea of what’s going on if they did.
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Satellite imagery aids meteorologists with forecasting and can also help with identifying ground conditions 🛰️
Here, snow is coloured pink with the coldest clouds displayed in orange and less cold clouds shown in white ❄️
Here, snow is coloured pink with the coldest clouds displayed in orange and less cold clouds shown in white ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Satellite imagery aids meteorologists with forecasting and can also help with identifying ground conditions 🛰️
Here, snow is coloured pink with the coldest clouds displayed in orange and less cold clouds shown in white ❄️
Here, snow is coloured pink with the coldest clouds displayed in orange and less cold clouds shown in white ❄️
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He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
He’s have an inconvenient journalist chopped up with a bone saw in a nanosecond if he could.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
Just like the gurning psychopath sitting next to him did.
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You may have heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social recommending an article on his show yesterday.
"Who Goes Nazi?" by renowned American journalist Dorothy Thompson, is a wonderful piece of writing. ⬇️
#DorothyThompson
youtu.be/ouK3fzCqCMc?...
You may have heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social recommending an article on his show yesterday.
"Who Goes Nazi?" by renowned American journalist Dorothy Thompson, is a wonderful piece of writing. ⬇️
#DorothyThompson
youtu.be/ouK3fzCqCMc?...
Dorothy Thompson - Who Goes Nazi? (Her voice modelled on a genuine 1934 broadcast)
YouTube video by Quiet Majority
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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You may have heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social recommending an article on his show yesterday.
"Who Goes Nazi?" by renowned American journalist Dorothy Thompson, is a wonderful piece of writing. ⬇️
#DorothyThompson
youtu.be/ouK3fzCqCMc?...
You may have heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social recommending an article on his show yesterday.
"Who Goes Nazi?" by renowned American journalist Dorothy Thompson, is a wonderful piece of writing. ⬇️
#DorothyThompson
youtu.be/ouK3fzCqCMc?...
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Starmer: “Controlling migration is a reasonable goal- but if you throw bricks and smash up private property that is thuggery…if you incite violence that’s criminal…if you graffiti on a Chinese takeaway telling them to go home, that’s not pride that’s racism.”
September 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Starmer: “Controlling migration is a reasonable goal- but if you throw bricks and smash up private property that is thuggery…if you incite violence that’s criminal…if you graffiti on a Chinese takeaway telling them to go home, that’s not pride that’s racism.”
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Good section this! (Also good piece by James)
September 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Good section this! (Also good piece by James)
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Bienvenue à Montauban 🇫🇷🏉
September 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Bienvenue à Montauban 🇫🇷🏉
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Important read. Refugees caught in a bureaucratic nightmare. Nothing to do for months or years. Cooking in the bathroom instead of eating constant chips and chicken nuggets. Forced to take taxis no matter the length of the journey, long or short.
September 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Important read. Refugees caught in a bureaucratic nightmare. Nothing to do for months or years. Cooking in the bathroom instead of eating constant chips and chicken nuggets. Forced to take taxis no matter the length of the journey, long or short.
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There are actually credible and competent analysts looking at the data.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
There are actually credible and competent analysts looking at the data.
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...
www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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From 1939: www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
September 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
From 1939: www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
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How do you stop the Worst People?
The Politics Of Cruelty
How do you solve a problem like Nigel…or Donald?
chadbourn.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
How do you stop the Worst People?
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Over half a million children to benefit from funded childcare
The government has delivered its pledge to fund childcare for 30 hours a week – saving parents £7,500 a year per child, and putting more money in their pockets
www.gov.uk/government/n...
The government has delivered its pledge to fund childcare for 30 hours a week – saving parents £7,500 a year per child, and putting more money in their pockets
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Over half a million children to benefit from funded childcare
The government has delivered its pledge to fund childcare for 30 hours a week – saving parents £7,500 a year per child, and putting more money in their pockets.
www.gov.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Over half a million children to benefit from funded childcare
The government has delivered its pledge to fund childcare for 30 hours a week – saving parents £7,500 a year per child, and putting more money in their pockets
www.gov.uk/government/n...
The government has delivered its pledge to fund childcare for 30 hours a week – saving parents £7,500 a year per child, and putting more money in their pockets
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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August 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
🧵
x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia
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NEW: The National is launching a new series highlighting positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland.
The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
August 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
NEW: The National is launching a new series highlighting positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland.
The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
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I've removed the paywall from a trilogy of posts I wrote a while ago about my visit in 2015 to Iran. I would like them to be read, of course I would. Especially at a time when misunderstanding and prejudice are a seductive common currency.
open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
August 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I've removed the paywall from a trilogy of posts I wrote a while ago about my visit in 2015 to Iran. I would like them to be read, of course I would. Especially at a time when misunderstanding and prejudice are a seductive common currency.
open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
open.substack.com/pub/nedboult...
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"Were Putin to follow his own logic, he would not be invading Ukraine, but handing over European Russia to Finland or Sweden."
As Putin heads to Alaska with his maps and narratives, here's an essay I wrote last year about one of his spurious justifications for Russia's illegal war of aggression—his ideological story that Russia is an ancient state, and Ukraine is historically Russian land
snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...
snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...
Putin's Legend
The Nonsensical Basis of a Terrible War
snyder.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Were Putin to follow his own logic, he would not be invading Ukraine, but handing over European Russia to Finland or Sweden."
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The other BS line we will hear is “only Trump could have agreed a deal with Putin”…which actually should be “only Trump could have betrayed democratic Ukraine.
August 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The other BS line we will hear is “only Trump could have agreed a deal with Putin”…which actually should be “only Trump could have betrayed democratic Ukraine.
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Trump is planning to cap the admission of new refugees to the US at 40,000 people per year, Reuters reports.
There will be a quota of 30,000 places allocated to the white population of South Africa.
There will be a quota of 30,000 places allocated to the white population of South Africa.
August 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Trump is planning to cap the admission of new refugees to the US at 40,000 people per year, Reuters reports.
There will be a quota of 30,000 places allocated to the white population of South Africa.
There will be a quota of 30,000 places allocated to the white population of South Africa.
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SPLENDID PARODY OF THE PEDO-IN-CHIEF'S MORONICALLY DERANGED STYLE OF POSTING, DESPITE THE MISSED OPPORTUNITY OF REFERRING TO HIM AS DONALD CHUMP, GOVERNOR NEWSCUM.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
August 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
SPLENDID PARODY OF THE PEDO-IN-CHIEF'S MORONICALLY DERANGED STYLE OF POSTING, DESPITE THE MISSED OPPORTUNITY OF REFERRING TO HIM AS DONALD CHUMP, GOVERNOR NEWSCUM.
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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If Putin is rewarded for illegally invading Ukraine, for occupying parts of Ukraine, for committing genocide, for torture, rape, summary executions, for false imprisonment, for abducting children, for bombing schools and hospitals, murdering journalists, starving ppl… then anyone can do anything.
August 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If Putin is rewarded for illegally invading Ukraine, for occupying parts of Ukraine, for committing genocide, for torture, rape, summary executions, for false imprisonment, for abducting children, for bombing schools and hospitals, murdering journalists, starving ppl… then anyone can do anything.
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A brilliant thing this.
I don’t have much to offer owing to a move abroad within the last few weeks but I’ll still chip in.
Scrutinising this charlatan and his merry band of crims and misfits is essential.
I don’t have much to offer owing to a move abroad within the last few weeks but I’ll still chip in.
Scrutinising this charlatan and his merry band of crims and misfits is essential.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A brilliant thing this.
I don’t have much to offer owing to a move abroad within the last few weeks but I’ll still chip in.
Scrutinising this charlatan and his merry band of crims and misfits is essential.
I don’t have much to offer owing to a move abroad within the last few weeks but I’ll still chip in.
Scrutinising this charlatan and his merry band of crims and misfits is essential.