Severin Carrell
@severincarrell.bsky.social
Scotland editor for the Guardian. A personal account. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss)
I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
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The UK wants to emulate Denmark’s hardline asylum model – but what does it actually look like?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The UK wants to emulate Denmark’s hardline asylum model – but what does it actually look like?
Denmark has slashed asylum numbers by granting only short-term status and by targeting ‘ghettoes’, which critics say has damaged the country’s values
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The UK wants to emulate Denmark’s hardline asylum model – but what does it actually look like?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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vital public interest stuff from me & @ramshodgson.bsky.social
a gov figure told FT that the Cycle to Work scheme was "tax breaks to high earners buying £4,000 e-bikes for weekend rides in the Surrey Hills"
so for fun here's some charts on the £120 to £2,996 bikes being bought by gov employees
a gov figure told FT that the Cycle to Work scheme was "tax breaks to high earners buying £4,000 e-bikes for weekend rides in the Surrey Hills"
so for fun here's some charts on the £120 to £2,996 bikes being bought by gov employees
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
vital public interest stuff from me & @ramshodgson.bsky.social
a gov figure told FT that the Cycle to Work scheme was "tax breaks to high earners buying £4,000 e-bikes for weekend rides in the Surrey Hills"
so for fun here's some charts on the £120 to £2,996 bikes being bought by gov employees
a gov figure told FT that the Cycle to Work scheme was "tax breaks to high earners buying £4,000 e-bikes for weekend rides in the Surrey Hills"
so for fun here's some charts on the £120 to £2,996 bikes being bought by gov employees
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I think we as journalists must do a better job communicating what it is we do, how it happens and how it doesn't. Emily's thread here is very useful in that direction.
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I think we as journalists must do a better job communicating what it is we do, how it happens and how it doesn't. Emily's thread here is very useful in that direction.
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Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
Trump's attack can rescue the BBC
The BBC should use the threat of legal action to strike a blow for press freedom
www.newstatesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...
“Twitter continues to dominate the political space because of the Co-ordinated Action problem. No matter how many people want to leave it, the presence of others who have not yet left keeps its grip. The wanna-be leavers have no mechanism to co-ordinate” 👇🏾
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
“Twitter continues to dominate the political space because of the Co-ordinated Action problem. No matter how many people want to leave it, the presence of others who have not yet left keeps its grip. The wanna-be leavers have no mechanism to co-ordinate” 👇🏾
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Starmer all but confirms that two-child benefit cap will be fully abolished in budget - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Starmer all but confirms that two-child benefit cap will be fully abolished in budget - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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'For the past decade, Delhi has held the inglorious title of being the world’s most polluted city. Pollution season has become as normalised as the monsoon, as it rolls over the city in a suffocating smog that begins in October and can last for more than four months.' 1/2
‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest
The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rife
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
'For the past decade, Delhi has held the inglorious title of being the world’s most polluted city. Pollution season has become as normalised as the monsoon, as it rolls over the city in a suffocating smog that begins in October and can last for more than four months.' 1/2
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www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby.
Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong..."
The Black Cats have been a breath of fresh air on their return to the top flight and rose to the challenge of facing a side who had won their past 10 games across all competitions
@safc.com 💥🕺🥳
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
@safc.com 💥🕺🥳
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Sunderland 2-2 Arsenal: Brian Brobbey scores dramatic late equaliser
Brian Brobbey scores a dramatic late equaliser as Arsenal concede their first goals since September, with Sunderland earning a brilliant point against the Premier League leaders at the Stadium of Ligh...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The Black Cats have been a breath of fresh air on their return to the top flight and rose to the challenge of facing a side who had won their past 10 games across all competitions
@safc.com 💥🕺🥳
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
@safc.com 💥🕺🥳
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.
Preserving the Past & Sharing It Today: A New Partnership with the University of California
The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.
dusttodigital.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The Dust-to-Digital Foundation and the University of California, Santa Barbara have partnered to make thousands of historic recordings freely accessible to the public.
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Will add that, though the study below deals specifically with megafauna’s role in regulating earth’s systems, biologists have told much the same story about the loss of diadromous fish, critical transporters of nutrients whose movements and populations modernity has thrown terribly out of whack.
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Will add that, though the study below deals specifically with megafauna’s role in regulating earth’s systems, biologists have told much the same story about the loss of diadromous fish, critical transporters of nutrients whose movements and populations modernity has thrown terribly out of whack.
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Ration flying now
True impact of your flying several times higher than commonly used CO₂ calculators suggest
For example current calculations for first class from Singapore to Zurich on B777 plane, say it emits 5000 kg when in fact its 14,000 kg #climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
True impact of your flying several times higher than commonly used CO₂ calculators suggest
For example current calculations for first class from Singapore to Zurich on B777 plane, say it emits 5000 kg when in fact its 14,000 kg #climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
www.newscientist.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ration flying now
True impact of your flying several times higher than commonly used CO₂ calculators suggest
For example current calculations for first class from Singapore to Zurich on B777 plane, say it emits 5000 kg when in fact its 14,000 kg #climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
True impact of your flying several times higher than commonly used CO₂ calculators suggest
For example current calculations for first class from Singapore to Zurich on B777 plane, say it emits 5000 kg when in fact its 14,000 kg #climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
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FBI fires four more agents who investigated Trump, sources say reut.rs/3XevQfi
FBI fires four more agents who investigated Trump, sources say
The Trump administration has fired four additional FBI agents who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's team investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
reut.rs
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
FBI fires four more agents who investigated Trump, sources say reut.rs/3XevQfi
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Lord Heseltine on charlatan Farage
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Lord Heseltine on charlatan Farage
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Reform UK, the Russian spy & rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
By me, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
@peterwalker99.bsky.social
& Artem Mazhulin
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
By me, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
@peterwalker99.bsky.social
& Artem Mazhulin
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Reform UK, the Russian spy & rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
By me, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
@peterwalker99.bsky.social
& Artem Mazhulin
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
By me, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
@peterwalker99.bsky.social
& Artem Mazhulin
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Up to 59% of Antarctic ice shelves may be at risk of disappearing under high-emission scenarios by 2300, according to an analysis of the effect of ocean warming in Nature. This could result in up to 10 m of global sea-level rise. go.nature.com/47Ag4k1 🌊 🧪
October 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Up to 59% of Antarctic ice shelves may be at risk of disappearing under high-emission scenarios by 2300, according to an analysis of the effect of ocean warming in Nature. This could result in up to 10 m of global sea-level rise. go.nature.com/47Ag4k1 🌊 🧪
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“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work, and HRL [Yale Humanitarian Research Lab] has been reporting on the RSF and the Sudanese war for a while.”
Incredibly grim
Incredibly grim
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“I haven’t seen violence like this since Rwanda. The velocity and ferocity of the RSF killing civilians since Sunday is unlike anything I’ve seen in 26 years of doing this work, and HRL [Yale Humanitarian Research Lab] has been reporting on the RSF and the Sudanese war for a while.”
Incredibly grim
Incredibly grim
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Updated image to include Andrew and two others. I inadvertendly left out A and B's when I added the database in. Doesn't change the message BUT I am sorry about that. Very annoyed at myself!
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Updated image to include Andrew and two others. I inadvertendly left out A and B's when I added the database in. Doesn't change the message BUT I am sorry about that. Very annoyed at myself!
"One study, published in PLOS One, even found that a faked moon landing would require over 400,000 conspirators" **
(** the US has put 12 astronauts on the Moon on six different Apollo missions)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
(** the US has put 12 astronauts on the Moon on six different Apollo missions)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"One study, published in PLOS One, even found that a faked moon landing would require over 400,000 conspirators" **
(** the US has put 12 astronauts on the Moon on six different Apollo missions)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
(** the US has put 12 astronauts on the Moon on six different Apollo missions)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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New paper: Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over
- "reasonable actions could reduce climate-related damages in 2050 by more than a trillion dollars a year"
#climatecrisis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- "reasonable actions could reduce climate-related damages in 2050 by more than a trillion dollars a year"
#climatecrisis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over
We provide a comprehensive assessment of the economic benefits and costs of global methane emissions abatement, anchored on the Global Methane Pledge. We use an integrated assessment model to estimate...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
New paper: Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over
- "reasonable actions could reduce climate-related damages in 2050 by more than a trillion dollars a year"
#climatecrisis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- "reasonable actions could reduce climate-related damages in 2050 by more than a trillion dollars a year"
#climatecrisis
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I hope everyone is enjoying the 200 years of the railways coverage going around!
It's nice to contribute to it myself... Here's a new piece from me about railway electrification and various ideas for how to speed it up!
What do future railways look like? 🧐🚈
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's nice to contribute to it myself... Here's a new piece from me about railway electrification and various ideas for how to speed it up!
What do future railways look like? 🧐🚈
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Railways: Firms develop new tech to electrify trains
Railway operators have new options for electric trains including getting rid of locomotives altogether.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I hope everyone is enjoying the 200 years of the railways coverage going around!
It's nice to contribute to it myself... Here's a new piece from me about railway electrification and various ideas for how to speed it up!
What do future railways look like? 🧐🚈
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's nice to contribute to it myself... Here's a new piece from me about railway electrification and various ideas for how to speed it up!
What do future railways look like? 🧐🚈
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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UK environment minister Steve Reed claimed water pollution in Scotland was worse than in England. We fact checked this as Mostly False.
Now the UK Statistics Authority has stepped in. It said there was "the potential for people to be misled" by the minister's comments.
bit.ly/3LbNopX
Now the UK Statistics Authority has stepped in. It said there was "the potential for people to be misled" by the minister's comments.
bit.ly/3LbNopX
Letter from Professor Dame Carol Propper to Seamus Logan MP – statements on water quality
Dear Mr Logan,
Thank you for your email of 5 September to the Acting National Statistician regarding comments by the former Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, that drew comparisons between England and Scotland’s water industry regulation.
I respond on behalf of the UK
uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
UK environment minister Steve Reed claimed water pollution in Scotland was worse than in England. We fact checked this as Mostly False.
Now the UK Statistics Authority has stepped in. It said there was "the potential for people to be misled" by the minister's comments.
bit.ly/3LbNopX
Now the UK Statistics Authority has stepped in. It said there was "the potential for people to be misled" by the minister's comments.
bit.ly/3LbNopX
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Scottish government heading for £5bn gap between its income and its spending, auditor general warns, @severincarrell.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Scottish government heading for £5bn gap between its income and its spending, auditor general warns, @severincarrell.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...