Notices by Alan Ferrier (alanferrier@mastodon.scot)

Labour has ordered the Home Office to begin mass deportations of undocumented migrants.

Writing in The Sun, Yvette Cooper says she has told the Home Office to raid car washes, nail bars and salons. 1,000 staff will be deployed to fast-track deportations.

"Change," eh?

Farage being, once again, the top story on the BBC News website provides an excuse to repost this little slice of Internet poetry from 2017:

Fixed that for you, New Statesman.

Fun fact: England is the only country in the world to have fully privatised its water and sewerage systems.

Via the Financial Times: "Scotland—which has its own state-owned water company—massively outperformed its neighbours with water standards similar to much of Scandinavia."

That'd be the Nelson Mandela who said in 1997 that the ANC's struggle was ongoing. “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”

Tell me you don't know who Nelson Mandela was or what he stood for without telling me, etc... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labours-david-lammy-suggests-mandela-would-oppose-gaza-student-protests

The Rector of the University of Glasgow, a Palestinian witness to war crimes, is now banned from entering both Germany and France and, it would seem, the whole of Europe.

As the UK Home Office prepares to set the police on scared, vulnerable people in a desperate attempt to solicit votes from its racist base, we should all remember the words of historian and journalist Neal Ascherson, from 2017: #AsIf
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/15384883.neal-ascherson-scotland-must-act-independence-nation/

Documents relating to the Royal household are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

The UK Foreign Office said an exemption relating to communications with, or on the behalf of, the late Queen, was “absolute”.

One simple question: why?
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-andrew-files-royal-family-b2404639.html

An extraordinarily powerful protest as thousands line the seafront at San Sebastian in the Basque Country of Spain to denounce the ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli state.

The sirens you can hear in the background are those of Guernica.

A party that receives almost a third of its funding from an individual who's called for a member of the UK parliament to be shot shouldn't get to define what does and does not constitute extremism.

So all four senior members of the British Royal Family have suspended public engagements until further notice yet everything continues as normal, or as normal as things get on this deeply weird and dysfunctional wee island.

Every single one of the Windsors could cease all duties forever and barely anyone would notice apart from some sad royal gossip obsessives.

You know that "change" they keep banging on about?

You're not going to like it.

Anas Sarwar makes his way onto the #scotlab24 conference stage to the song ‘Unstoppable’.

Opening lyrics to "Unstoppable":

"All smiles, I know what it takes to fool this town,
I'll do it 'til the sun goes down.
And all through the nighttime
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah, I'll tell you what you wanna hear..."

They could save paper by just issuing a joint manifesto.

Who could blame it?

Two million French folk take to the streets in a wave of strikes and protests against a proposal to raise the pension age from 62 to 64.

Meanwhile in the UK: "Mustn't grumble. When's 'Strictly' on?"