If I were to have a travel #Scotland blog or pocast I would call it #SoupandSandwich

Good article this which highlights my frustration at the inability to properly discuss #Scotland specific issues within UK framework.

Of course things were better 50 years ago. I was 19.

Dear #Bluesky, I know a post is "popular with friends" because they are my friends and reposted them. Thanks.

Morgan McSweeney dropped from Beard of the Year longlist for bringing the hirsute into disrepute wp.me/p15p2Q-fuI

This doesn't augur well imo #asylum #RefugeesWelcomeHere

This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms: ✅He personally directs criminal investigations. ✅He is targeting opponents. ✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents. Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀

I have received a non- cultivation/neglect notice on my #allotment. Bit harsh this time of year and after the weather we've had.... Anyway, cheers.

A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...

Tonight I am hope- scrolling- Seeking signs that #Trunp is doomed.

Here's "Trump'll Nail Ya" - a song about the #BBC legal crisis (set to the tune of the shanty "Drunken Sailor") which created a big internal debate about what's a gremlin and what's a mogwai. 🎶⚓️ ... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ... youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes

A national campaign calling for higher taxes on Britain’s wealthiest individuals arrived in Newcastle this week, with the Patriotic Millionaires UK bus pulling up on Market Street in steady rain emblazoned with the message: “Tax us, the super-rich.” 👏👏👏

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

It’s bigger than you think.

Trump sues Everybody!

NEW A close look at Trump's $1 billion claim against the BBC The litigation letter is weak, but his underlying practical position is not weak By me: emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... (Substack) (Non-Substack link to follow.)

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

🔴The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the ‘Right-Wing Coup’ Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

Good evening. #Scotland #AilsaCraig #Sunset.

From Antwerp to Hainaut, determined brewers are reviving forgotten ales, reimagining them for modern palates while keeping one eye on history.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The BBC's depressing lack of inherent institutional strength The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...

"The playground, one of 6 in Portsmouth, is a feeder for the nearby youth club, one of 4 in the city. Retention of this number of youth spaces is almost unprecedented at a time when centres are disappearing at other coastal towns with high levels of deprivation." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily. This is not good sign for our polity.

And politicians shrug and say "Something wrong with young people today. Mystery. Can't figure it out. Guess we'll have to bully them some more."

It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.

Emma Monk being brilliant again. The best debunkling around. Make sure you are following her.

If you’re media covering bike-lanes, watch this news story. If you’re a downtown business association discussing bike-lanes, watch this news story. If you’re anyone hearing the LIE that bike-lanes are bad for business, watch this story. And please SHARE THIS STORY so others can watch it too.

First world problems: Karoline Leavitt: ‘Every time I travel to the United Kingdom with President Trump and am forced to watch the BBC in our hotel rooms, it ruins my day.’ The remote must have been hidden by the hotel management. Or maybe she couldn't figure out how to use it.

If Labour wants us to think about their wonderful policies on housing etc, they need to stop making us think that all they really care about is how be nastier and more evil on immigration. Like, every day.

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And on the day I post this, Glasman suggests bringing back the stocks. Blue Labour is making Labour unelectable.

"Proportional Representation [is] no longer the subject of an abstract discussion on the margins, but an urgent and compelling proposition supported across our party." Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social. Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/

New, by me The real problem which blights our prison and punishment system The way we think about custodial sentences is what needs to change Reflections on the wrongful prison release news Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-real-p... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...

Couleurs de Belgique Harry Gruyaert

Talking about curling on #BBCRadio5Live Our local rink in #Ayr closed down due to cost of electricity amongst other things. Otherwise I could have been going to the #WinterOlympics Here's a view we have of #AilsaCraig where the stones come from.

Enough Esme we didn't know who he was until a fortnight ago. #thearchers

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

"Well guys, you're gonna have to learn his f*cking name now." I went on a rant at the Zohran Mamdani event last night, against billionaires who spent millions to try and stop a guy whose name they refuse to correctly pronounce. Watch/share/subscribe to Zeteo: zeteo.com/subscribe

Who said “Reform Councillors are all as dodgy AF”❗️ Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to turf old ppl out closing 5 council-run care homes & 5 day centres to sell off the land for £4 million And get this - a cabinet member owns a private care company with his wife so could make £’s from it 1

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

But a truly embarrassing response from Labour Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson on Sky: “I’ll be honest, I don’t follow American politics especially closely”. Which says more than she thinks.

Mamdani is asked about Trump’s comment last night that he’s better looking than him: “My focus is on the cost of living crisis.”

The government has shut down refugee family reunion — turning in effect a “temporary pause” into a permanent ban. Cruel. Heartless. Inhumane. 🧵 reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk/over-60-orgs...

Also notable that the Tories are on 7% with people under-50. In fifth place. And only 4 points above the SNP in sixth (who obviously only stand in Scotland).

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

The Outsiders exhibition on homelessness and substandard housing is now in storage until it goes to Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow in March next year. It will be the longest period without a display of this exhibition somewhere since 2023.

"When we looked into prominent flaggers we found people smugglers, sex doll salesmen, people with criminal pasts, people with a good word for Hitler. Farage told us they were just ordinary folk. A few months of local journalism later, that claim looks shaky." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...