JOYCE Wilson has knitted over 400 bears for charity despite her arthritis. …

SUCCESS for Elgin restaurant at national awards. …

TWO Buckie tattoo artists have been enjoying an award-filled year at national competitions. …

  Labour leader Keir Starmer set out his pitch to Scotland on BBC’s flagship politics show “the Sunday Show” at the weekend. It was widely regarded as a car crash. Columnist Lesley Riddoch wrote: ” a stumbling Keir Starmer hit the brick wall of Scottish political reality with a bang…

TWITTER might be an absolute hellscape – but at least it felt like our hellscape. For the eternally online, it has played the role of community hub and misinformation machine alike over the past decade. Maybe it was the shared suffering that made it feel like, in some way, it belonged to us all. Source

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Watching Elon Musk’s management ‘style’ unfold as he takes a wrecking ball to Twitter and engineers performative mass sackings is sickening. Not just for the bad taste and pettiness but the prospect of such a man being in charge of such an important public resource. The queue of toxic people banished to Gettr and other […] Source

WATCHING Elon Musk’s management “style” unfold as he takes a wrecking ball to Twitter and engineers performative mass sackings is sickening. Not just for the bad taste and pettiness but the prospect of such a man being in charge of such an important public resource. Source

Flashback Some time in the mid to late 1980s, I attended a short season of films by Shūji Terayama, a Japanese radical best known for his features, Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1968), and Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971). The screenings took place at Filmhouse in Edinburgh, which I visited on a semi regular […] Source

A TORY businesswoman has been branded a “racist” after posting a “disgusting” rant about asylum seekers on social media. Source

SCOTLAND’S railways could see “absolute havoc” this festive season unless workers’ pay demands are met, a union has threatened. Source

News from the Independent that Suella Braverman has plans to x-ray children to verify their age may seem to complete the week. Britain’s descent into a place where the Home Secretary appears to be a verifiable fascist seems sudden, a lurch, but it’s really not. We can chart the process over a thirty-eight year period. […] Source

Gove claimed “new” trade deals worth £800 billion had been signed with over 70 countries since 2016 Source

Gove claimed “new” trade deals worth £800 billion had been signed with over 70 countries since 2016 Source