This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.."
This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.
Peter Beaumont
Video
“the very idea of ‘student satisfaction’ is in tension with genuine education since real learning requires intellectual pressure and challenge, which does not always produce satisfied customers. Yet it is satisfaction, not learning, that tends to be measured and rewarded.”
That was stressful. Up the Celts!
Saul Staniforth
Edinburgh Marathon ✅
The heat was a killer. Splits fell off a cliff second half of the race as the cramping kicked in. Just a case of finishing at that point. 3:20 was a decent time under the circumstances
After democratization, #Bolivia defied the region’s violent drug-war pattern by using state–narco networks to contain conflict, at the cost of entrenching corruption and weakening democracy.
Find Alan Gillies's "Narco-Democratization":
bit.ly/3QQFFAg
@allangillies.bsky.social
@upittpress.bsky.social
Love the framing - like paying someone a wage is an act of charity
Glasgow has long had its own distinct "far right" anti-immigrant base that cannot be understood without understanding unionist loyalism. This truth is often dismissed - that's different, it's just about football here etc - but I reckon it's going to become increasingly impossible to deny.
Donald Trump endorses Abelardo in Colombian elections, saying de la Espriella will "stop illegal immigration, fight crime and drugs, and restore public order!”
Also falsely calls Cepeda a "radical Marxist" and suggests Colombia's relation with the US will worsen if he is elected
From afar, the reinvention of Burnham as a deep political thinker and man of the people is extraordinary. Remember him as a mediocre minister and career politician
