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Libby Brooks

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Libby Brooks is the Guardian's Scotland correspondent, based in Glasgow

June 2026

  • A young person wearing a lot of beaded bracelets stares intently at her mobile phone

    First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?

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  • A woman in a headscarf stands in a damaged hospital room with debris on the floor and disheveled beds

    First Edition newsletter
    Friday briefing: How Gaza, Lebanon and Iran have found themselves caught in an escalation without end

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  • Memorial photographs of Henry Nowak surrounded by colourful flower bouquets placed on a ledge with grass behind

    First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: ​How Henry Nowak’s ​death has been twisted into a rallying cry for the far right

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  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer in glasses and suit holds up a smartphone while speaking, looking at the screen

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: ​As the Mandelson revelations continue with no respite, can the public ever trust UK politicians again?

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May 2026

  • BBC Scotland headquarters illuminated at night on Pacific Quay in Glasgow

    ‘Deep unease’ at BBC Radio Scotland as majority of axed presenters are women

  • Trans rights campaigner Stephen Whittle sits on a doorstep with flowerpots either side of him.

    ‘Kind of humiliating’: trans community responds to EHRC’s new code of practice

  • Mary-Ann Stephenson sat speaking on Thursday about EHRC decision

    What is the updated EHRC code of practice about and how does it apply?

  • Protesters hold signs reading 'ONE YEAR LATER', 'IMPLEMENT THE SUPREME COURT RULING NOW!' and 'WOMEN WON'T WHEESHT WHILE WE WAIT' at an outdoor rally

    Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says EHRC

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Streeting says he resigned because Labour ‘in fight of our lives against nationalism’, and is currently losing – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Minister defends Mandelson file redactions and says documents to be released in June – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer will not attempt to block Burnham from standing to be MP in Makerfield - as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer has ‘full confidence’ in Streeting despite health secretary’s allies saying he is planning to resign – as it happened

  • Magnus the wandering walrus leaves Scotland for Norway

  • UK firefighters called to one lithium-ion battery fire every five hours

  • Minority groups brace for surge in racism after Reform UK election gains

  • Don’t let Farage and Reform divide us, Labour’s Sarwar urges Holyrood leaders

  • Swinney keen to work with fellow nationalist devolved leaders in UK

  • The SNP may have won again but Scottish politics has been upended

  • John Swinney urges Starmer to show Scotland ‘greater respect’ after SNP victory

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour suffers historic defeat in Wales as Reform surges in English council elections and Greens make gains – as it happened

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