The Taliban forbids girls in Afghanistan from going to school past the age of 12.  At the same time, they send their own daughters to school abroad.  As with all fundamentalists, their rules only apply to others.  telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Wed. 6.35am on Princes St and people who should be sat waiting for a bus at a bus stop on the capital city's prime street are trying to avoid the rats (who don't seem nervous of humans at all) Never seen the like before The City of Edinburgh Council Edinburgh Council Help

Important article calling out the silence of the Liberal Democrats on the #CassReview. Scottish liberal democrats have been some of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for the damaging approach to identity politics, adopted in Scotland. thetimes.com/article/4ee4b5…

Lorna Slater is claiming that "cruel and inhumane torture" is happening "behind closed doors" in Scotland. If she has evidence of this, she should report it to the police. Torture is actually illegal, Lorna.

This week, male ultra cyclist Cara (Cameron) Dixon was “the first woman” to finish the grueling Spanish gravel race Badlands 2024. The first actual woman to cross the line was Svenja Betz. Mr. Dixon was 7th in the men’s category.

Striking that according to this, the highest hourly wage women ever experience is essentially just before they have kids. I assume a lot of the shift in peak female earnings between 1975-2013 is caused by delayed/reduced childbearing

This morning's nature watch from Edinburgh's Prince St. No (visible) rats today but we do have a squirrel eyeing us up.

Whether it's men demanding to compete in women's sport; or men demanding that there be no female-only spaces, or men demanding that women make themselves invisible, it is clear that there is an increasing effort by men to erase women. spiked-online.com/2024/09/04/can…

If attempting to shoot a presidential candidate isn't enough, or children, wonder if anything can ever make the US reconsider its relationship with assault rifles, never mind guns in general. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

There are so many levels of insanity in this story. Chris Law MP is the MP for Dundee Central. He has been especially vocal about the S35 order which prevented the Scottish Gov implementing Self ID. Chris felt fear & alarm when this angry aggressive man shouted abuse.

YouTube has already told us we won’t get any ad revenue out of the film. Apparently our film is ‘not suitable’ for advertisers. Given that the film is doing actual grunt work of peaking the world, could you help the film get to 100,000 by the first week? youtu.be/Frffv2sB8zE

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Looks like debate prep is going swimmingly.🙄

In discovering she recognised one of the men who raped her as a neighbour she knew: “Gisèle was then reminded by the judge that in order to respect the presumption of innocence, it had been agreed in court not to use the word rape but “sex scene”” 🤬 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This is magnificent

I am sorry to report, Edinburgh, that someone has stolen our castle. And volcano. But not the rats

1/ 🌱The Green Party is supposed to champion ethical conduct grounded in its core values & philosophy, with a strong commitment to freedom of self-expression. But does it? Learnmore: tinyurl.com/5n963rjv #GreensInExile #Ethics #FreedomOfSpeech

Here for the ratio. Likely to turn into a big problem for the ICC in short order - like, Monday morning. (ICC rules you must have both a men’s and women’s team to take part in international matches. 2021 Australia one-off was cancelled for that reasons.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_cr…

After the Petrillo debacle, IPC president Andrew Parsons says: ‘When it comes to transgender athletes, they are breaking barriers everywhere. I remember saying, ‘It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.’ And it is women who suffer. Comment telegraph.co.uk/paralympic-spo…