This is also what Yvette Cooper, when she was UK Home Secretary, said about #PalestineAction. If you knew the secret stuff I know, you'd agree with me that they're terrorists. It's the cheapest and basest way for a politician to malign someone, and a clear sign of a flailing, undemocratic state.

Finding guilty everyone who's not white and nicely spoken would do it even quicker - but it would also (for similar reasons) be a bad idea.

If our hope does not move our hands And our freedom serves only ourselves We have not broken the chains. We've just convinced ourselves they're pretty. www.instagram.com/reel/DTGSMgA...

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Cats will be cats - no matter how small the box or how big the feline. 😽

Edwin Muir's tribute to Scottish journalist and children's author Ann Scott-Moncrieff, mother of three young children, who died tragically at age 29.

I simply love this.

'Renee Nicole Good was posing no threat to that ICE agent.' @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social says there's 'nothing' in the latest video of the ICE shooting that 'justifies the death' of the 37-year-old mother.

Reports and videos show ICE agents asking American citizens whether they’ve “learned their lesson over the last few days” are deeply troubling. Language like this implies intent and raises serious questions about premeditation and mindset on the scene.

The Norwegian Scottish Association is screening a film this coming Tuesday night, on the life of the Olympic figure skating star who took to Hollywood

The Riviera del Conero on the Adriatic coast of Italy's Le Marche region is famous for its wine growing. Today it's a balmy 8° in the sun 🌞

A little history about my office building, Edinburgh's City Chambers - I knew the catacombs underneath were medieval, and most of it from the mid-1700s, but didn't know that the archways only took their present form just over 100 years ago! www.facebook.com/share/v/1H2z...

Ethereal Gaelic song sung by Les Itinérantes youtu.be/YlavgNJMoDs?...

People are becoming more aware of distortion and bias in media & government proclamations, but it's quite something to realise that our whole world is distorted on the maps and globes we grew up with. Coincidentally, the people who made the maps live in those top bits that are made to look huge

Snow scenes around beautiful Le Marche, Italy.

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Here's a weird thought: if you were in the center of Antarctica, you could only walk north.

North America Prior To Illegal Immigration

I love this map of planet Earth from the viewpoint of dolphins, whales and fishes! 🙂🐋🐬🐟

"Instead of acknowledging migrants as the survivors of climate collapse – fuelled by the global north, which is responsible for 92% of excess global emissions – these political parties emphasise 'overpopulation' and 'opportunism' in the global south."

What a fun idea! I wonder if we could create a Rock Dragon slithering up the side of Ben Nevis?

In news that will surprise no one, Nigel Farage's Reform Party, a senior member of which has been convicted for taking bribes from Russia, consistently opposes sending UK troops to Ukraine.

I don't often post articles from this former Conservative councillor, but he makes some good points here.

Nick Muller's fab animated short of the bloated evil monster occupying the WH throne (note: not suitable for children. Just like the bloated evil monster himself). www.facebook.com/share/v/17pj... www.instagram.com/reel/DTN3QTO...

Nick Muller's fab animated short of the bloated evil monster occupying the throne (note: not suitable for children. Just like the bloated evil monster himself). www.facebook.com/share/v/17pj...

Surreal cereal boxes sometimes have two Wheatabix shaped cut-outs, with instructions to 'make your own breakfast wheat biscuits! Cut them out and add milk! Just like the real thing!' 😆 (I haven't yet deciphered the secret message codes on the inner flaps)

I love Surreal cereals because they're high protein and sugar free. Plus, they're bizarrely delicious for something so healthy. But I particularly enjoy the sense of humour that makes every detail of the packaging fun to read - from flaps to best by date to barcode. 😄

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1801: the world's first blackboard was put up by James Pillans, headmaster of the Royal High School in Edinburgh. Before this, kids worldwide were still using individual slates. He also invented coloured chalk to help him draw maps. Scots have chalked up a few other inventions, as you can see 😉

Well, 48 years now.

A Community Wassail will be taking place at the orchard in Leith Links on January 17th. Come along and help awaken the spring! 🍎🌳 www.facebook.com/share/p/16hM...

Scotland is rich in energy production, yet pays some of the highest prices for energy in the UK. Billionaires buy yachts with their sky-high energy company dividends, while pensioners freeze in their unheated homes. Demand better - please sign the petition www.believeinscotland.org/end_scotland...

These are the fabulous staff and volunteers of Milan Senior Welfare Group, an Edinburgh charity that cares for elderly Urdu-speaking residents. We were bidding farewell to one of our lovely volunteers who has been helping others for over 30 years!

Labour councillor, baillie for the city of Glasgow, as well as a parliamentary assistant to Labour MSP Neil Bibby, AND communications officer for MP Katrina Murray. Maybe working three different jobs has muddled her judgement when it comes to convicted stalkers. www.thenational.scot/news/2574508...

Read this post. The lawbreaking pedophile thug is trying get access to *your* personal data. Regardless of what he wants it for, nobody sane would want the creepy crook to get his tiny sticky hands on it.

Interesting question: where does the UK government's insistence on dragging us out of the EU, and into the lap of an increasingly unstable US president, leave Scotland? substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

It's interesting when the voice of calm and support for international law is coming from the other side of the world, and it's the U.S.'s criminal actions being called out. www.facebook.com/share/r/181q...

Buona Epifania!

Happy Epiphany! And Happy Christmas to all our Orthodox friends.