Castles, sporting estates and prime city-centre property worth tens of millions of pounds are among the assets missing from Scotland’s land control register.
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The Ferret
A free Scotland,🏴💙🇪🇺🇮🇪🏴🇺🇦 making its own decisions, no Westminster, SNHS, FB EU. Scotland Rugby.
Love an ikea hack, keen to have a media wall (saving pennies!)
And don't imagine for one moment that it's going to stop here. The pressure for expanding the definition of terrorist to anyone protesting against the Israeli government's genocide is already rising. bsky.app/profile/netp...
It should be in the textbooks, the judgment, for illustrating how legal outcomes are constructed by judges' selection and characterisation of facts. Stressing the covert, unapologetic, 'violent' nature of Palestine Action in contrast to the 'good' type of direct action that the Sufragettes did.
Ireland’s Future chairperson Niall Murphy said: “We are delighted to confirm that former First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon will take part in an Ireland’s Future event in July as part of Féile an Phobail.
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George Monbiot
Jolyon Maugham KC
A Tale of two Stories. First was a 'story' reported in the The Economist but what wank 🙄
Lady J of Tay
'Scotland has gone past the point where we can ignore the social unrest being fomented by the far right. It is reaching far too far, and casual racism is becoming far too routine to be ignored.'
Common Weal, via The National
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Shabana Mahmood's appeal is allowed. The Court of Appeal finds the decision to proscribe Palestine Action was lawful. Key is what the Court of Appeal describes as its "pattern of escalatory behaviour" - i.e. what it might do in the future.
