The “free speech” crowd is really into arresting protesters

The ballistic missile with which Russia just targeted a busy seaside fitness path in Odesa, killing dogs and joggers, was loaded with these projectiles for maximum casualties.

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It’s odd how little this has broken out beyond farming twitter: the UK’s harvests this year are going to be *terrible* for wheat, barley and several other crops.

Beyond the other effects, that bodes ill for politicians betting the farm on inflation.

Dozens of nuclear power stations
HS2,3,4 &5
Mass housebuilding with Georgian architecture
British Space Programme
The development of high-tech industries across the north

Iain Blackford on #bbcpm on extremely dubious ground trying to argue away the issue of SNP appointing yet another FM. The only reason the Commons doesnt explicitly vote is that it's a waste most of the time: the leader of majority party has a visible majority., no need to vote.

SNCF going for the minimal look with the new TGVs.

In fact, if Keir Starmer becomes the 58th PM of this country, he’ll be the FIRST to have completed an undergraduate degree at an English university that was not Oxford or Cambridge. Not sure whether that’s a “fancy that” or a moment in “breaking barriers to opportunity”.

Just logged into Twitter for the first time in months. I’ve been away writing an exhaustive biography of Hamza Yousaf, who I characterise as a generational political force who will lead Scotland to independence.

Anyway, now to take a big gulp of Irn-Bru and check the news.

Ten years ago - even after Crimea - I did not expect to find myself so hawkish on Russia, but Moscow has made its choices.

In the past few days alone, we've had

- Wagner-linked arson in the UK
- Murder and assassination in the Czech Republic
- Potentially catastrophic GPS jamming in the Baltics

Russia is quite deliberately waging war on the West.

A lot of chat about an election again, and a reminder: Scottish Parliament elections are on a fixed five year timetable (unless an extraordinary election is within 6 months of that due date), and therefore an election now would give a parliament serving less than two years.

The best part? The Šapošnikov also bought this villa in Greece, which Unit 29155 has used as a safe house in Europe. Up until 2020, you, too, could rent it on Booking.com or Tripadvisor. No shit.

'We might have been a bit more inclined to cooperate with him,' says one Labour member of the Scottish parliament, 'if the SNP hadn’t spent the past 20 years telling voters we were all kinds of pieces of rubbish.'

Humza Yousaf's tenure lasted 8.1 Liz Trusses

(Plus however long it takes to find a successor)

The first completed section of Curzon 3 viaduct👇👀.

Our trains will travel out of the west portal of the 3.5 mile Bromford Tunnel at Washwood Heath and onto a one mile stretch of 5 connected viaducts which are, Duddeston, Curzon 1, Curzon 2, Lawley Middleway and Curzon 3 -…

Yousaf: 'If only ever person in Scotland could be afforded the opportunity to be First Minister for just one day...'

At the going rate, they will

Where's all the money coming from to replace the £100ms of lost revenue to those unis you say with some made-up specious BS are 'low quality'? What are you gonna do when there's only 20 unis left and they have no sector ecosystem to draw on? Thicker. Than. Mince.

BREAKING:

China launches its 3rd aircraft carrier.

Fujian has started sea trials. It’s China’s first supercarrier and the most advanced aircraft carrier ever built outside of the U.S.

The 316 meter long ship is expected to enter service next year.