Writer, human rights activist, former senior diplomat and Ambassador.
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Scots are a people with the inherent and inalienable right of self-determination under the UN Charter. We have a right to national Independence
It is impossible to believe both that Scots have a right to self determination, and that Independence requires permission from London
This is stating the obvious but:
Celebrity sex abuse is almost always outed against people who were at the height of their fame and earning power a decade or two ago.
So who are the offenders at the top of the tree today, being protected, we will read about in 2040?
I am in Madrid and the demonstration is enormous, despite torrential rain.
People furious at landlordism and cost of living while real wages fall.
But I have never heard such visceral anger from a crowd before. A noise I won't forget.
Desborde gigante en #madrid dónde no paran de venir gente a la convocatoria de manifestación por la helga general por la vivienda digna por Maricarmen
#11NHuelgaGeneral @DRYmadrid @InquilinatoMad
I was there. No arrests were made at the time, Seven people now charged for stating their beliefs.
Seven people charged in connection with pro-Palestine Action rally in Edinburgh
Officers were called to a demonstration outside the US Consulate building on Regent Terrace on 31 October.
bbc.com/news/articles/c65yny…
To Madrid today to prepare for Fergie Chambers extradition hearing on Friday.
Meanwhile El Pais investigation shows the Spanish Neo-Nazi Nucleo Nacional are combat training with the Nazi Azov Brigade of the Ukrainian Army.
elpais.com/espana/2026-11-10…
So rather than renationalising disgraced Thames Water, it will be owned by USA hedge funds.
We are all slaves to billionaires.
🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
Most corrupt country in the world Part 4,992
Your reminder that the brave women who exposed the Azov hostage and torture centres are in prison and on trial for this "treason".
The most corrupt country in the world part 4786
Turns out this businessman, whose taste is as questionable as his decision to keep a crocodile instead of a cat, allegedly had quite the side hustle: siphoning off Western funds meant not only to protect energy infrastructure in the Lviv region, but also to build bomb shelters for schoolchildren (!) in Kyiv.
Yvette Cooper threatened to resign if the proscription of Palestine Action is revoked
But Ed Miliband has not threatened to resign if no action is taken against Israel
In New Labour, cash talks louder than principle.
Please note the Burnham Friends of Israel government has in fact brought in zero sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements.
Zero.
It was another straight out lie from Ed Miliband.
AJ EXCLUSIVE: The UK awarded £10.7m ($15m) in new public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli West Bank settlements, despite UK gov’t pledges to punish companies that profit from settlement activity, an Al Jazeera investigation reveals.
🔗: aje.news/99ct5z
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🇺🇦 Man who receives billions of Western money to protect Kyiv's energy infrastructure - Vlad Sokolov is under investigation and this is his luxury penthouse in Kyiv
A Rolls-Royce, a gold-and-marble penthouse with an indoor pool... That's what investigators found during searches at the homes of suspects in the embezzlement of billions of euros intended to protect Kyiv's energy infrastructure.
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The IDF is announcing they murdered several Palestinian kids because the Palestinian kids were in an “area” where stones had previously been thrown from.
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Vosotros sois jóvenes y no os acordaréis pero, durante la batalla de Mariúpol, comentaristas y periodistas occidentales se unieron en bloque para negar que la Brigada nazi Azov es, de hecho, nazi. Es más, fueron descritos como héroes, recibidos en Parlamentos y hasta condecorados.
Most corrupt country in the world Part 4,020
Man who receives Western money to protect Kyiv’s energy infrastructure - Vlad Sokolov.
This is not a joke.
As a result, Kyiv is left without electricity and without protection.
M'while, he has a penthouse in central Kyiv, a pool with a crocodile, and a Rolls-Royce. He has only two employees who help move the money offshore.
Later Zelensky and his circle will say they did everything they could, lock up a grandmother asking for peace, and demand the war continue along with more money.
No Russian propaganda could invent something like this. Ukrainian reality is far worse than any horror anyone could make up.
Note the reaction from this in-crowd audience is raucous celebration.
No sucking in of breath, no reserve in the applause. There is no sub-tone of disapproval from Ross.
