Marlene Halliday

But not the will.

“Almost the entire territory liberated”: Ukraine nears full clearance of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – reversing Russia’s “buffer zone” Offensive on Oleksandrivsk axis recaptures more ground than Russia seized in February.

Ukraine has recaptured 400+ sq km on the Oleksandrivsk axis – more land than Russia seized across the entire front in February.

Only three small settlements in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast left to clear, reversing Moscow's push to carve out a "buffer zone."

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Hope you’re not too gloomy with smoke today. Though admittedly it is hard not to be.

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Welfare spending broken into categories. When the right-wing rail against "excessive welfare spending" they never say that over half of it is for pensioners. Taking the state pension & other pensioner support it amounts to 58% of ALL welfare spending.

In support of stand up for science here is an image of galaxy M51. Beautiful night. Clear and no moon

And for our next podcast on 10th March at 8pm on YouTube…

If there is a group I’d rather that they protect me from Reform.

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For the first time, a young, Sun-like star has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

New route for Edinburgh March and rally

New route for Edinburgh March & Rally… youtube.com/shorts/a8l0V...

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Us too. Inherited from my mum and her mum before her.

Crypto investor based in Thailand donates further £3m to Reform Christopher Harborne’s gift is latest to party’s election war chest and comes amid calls for cap on political donations

We desperately need to reform electoral finance law.

Finished watching the latest Silent Witness series last night. It’s OK. But I preferred when they just got on and solved murders without all these philosophical voice-overs from Nikki.

Just what I was about to comment. A very silly mockup

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

So, who are the religious fanatics again?

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Well what a word salad that was!

NHS operations increased by 6.1% last year compared to the year before, and waiting lists have fallen 8 months in a row. Month after month, our plan to get the NHS on track is delivering for the people of Scotland.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

As it falls in NHS Scotland, BBC England evidence for corridor care surges in North of England is based correctly on our method and not that used by the Herald and repeated lazily by BBC Scotland Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From BBC England today, the above and: More th…

As it falls in NHS Scotland, BBC England evidence for corridor care surges in North of England is based correctly on our method and not that used by the Herald and repeated lazily by BBC Scotland talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/03/02/a...

Rather reminiscent of Victorian England when made ends meet by selling their hair, teeth …

Ach! You had me there Perform 😂 Keep up the good Parodying.

#Gorton&Denton is in safe hands. @reformuk.bsky.social been seen off. But let’s not be complacent about the dangers of #FPTP voting system. Maybe ask yourself why Labour aren’t talking about fixing that. England needs #proportional voting system. @compassoffice.bsky.social

And let’s incorporate Dignity, Fairness and Respect as the founding principles of our Scottish Constitution when we write it.

Really that should be England.... Scotland and Wales have PR in place. But not for the one UK-wide election - Westminster. @compassoffice.bsky.social

In the light of #Gorton&Denton by-election - where, yes, the best candidate won - let’s not forget the dangers of #FPTP voting systems. England needs #proportionalvvotingsystem Are you listening @labouruk.bsky.social ? Probably not.

🇬🇧 Even the unionist fundamentalists at ‘The Harold’ are having to admit defeat to Scotland on this 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

And are you sure that it’s not actually a AI trial on how to replicate a human being? I expect the Prof will know…

Morning.